[3] She collaborated with them on Telethon, consisting of interviews about subjects' personal experiences in relation to anthropological models presented in the University gallery as an installation made up of a living room with sofas, TV dinners and a television.
[citation needed] Upon completion of her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972, Segalove purchased a Sony Portapak from Nam June Paik’s girlfriend.
[5] She returned to Los Angeles and began taking classes with John Baldessari at CalArts, who encouraged Segalove to continue working with collage and to reconstruct photographs from popular culture.
[citation needed] Segalove madeToday's Program: Jackson Pollock, “Lavender Mist,” (1950) (1974), Gifts/I Love You/Bel Air Menthol (1975),[7] and If You Live Near Hollywood, You Can't Help But Look Like Some 8x10 Glossy (1976).
[14] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Segalove made several works including US Treasury Nose (1979) and TV is OK (1979), The Riot Tapes: A Personal History (1984),[15] and Female Fragments (1987).
The exhibition included collages, photographs, photomontages, installations, video and audio works and a catalogue with essays by Charles Desmarais and Lowell Darling.
[citation needed] In the mid-1990s, Segalove took a hiatus from making art and co-authored List Your Self,[19] a best-selling interactive list-making journal full of varied self-exploratory prompts.
"[22] In recent years, Segalove has continued to make artworks, including Secret Museum of Mankind (2011), in which she pairs photographic portraits of herself with historical images.
[citation needed] During each of the last four decades of the 20th century, Segalove received National Endowment for the Arts grants for her work in Photography, Video, Media, and Radio.