1. Joan Jonas was born on July 13,1936 and is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s".
24 Facts About Joan Jonas
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Joan Jonas's influences extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media.
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Joan Jonas later studied sculpture and drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and received an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University in 1965.
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Between 1968 and 1971, Joan Jonas performed Mirror Pieces, works which used mirrors to as a central motif or prop.
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In Wind, Joan Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique.
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In 1975, Joan Jonas appeared as a performer in the movie Keep Busy, by the photographer Robert Frank and novelist-screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer.
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In 1976 with The Juniper Tree, Joan Jonas arrived at a narrative structure from diverse literary sources, such as fairy tales, mythology, poetry, and folk songs, formalizing a highly complex, nonlinear method of presentation.
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Joan Jonas created Revolted by the Thought of Known Places.
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Joan Jonas sited many of her early performances at The Kitchen, including Funnel and the screening of Vertical Roll.
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Since 1970, Joan Jonas has spent part of every summer in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Joan Jonas has lived and worked in Greece, Morocco, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, and Ireland.
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Joan Jonas' works were first performed in the 1960s and '70s for some of the most influential artists of her generation, including Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham and Laurie Anderson.
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Joan Jonas' performance inspired by the writings of German anthropologist Aby Warburg, The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things, was commissioned by Dia Beacon and was twice performed between 2005 and 2006.
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Joan Jonas was featured as a choreographer for Robert Ashley's Opera titled Celestial Excursions in 2003.
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From 1993, the New York-based Joan Jonas spent part of each year in Los Angeles, teaching a course in New Genres at the UCLA School of the Arts.
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Joan Jonas has performed her works at countless institutions and venues, including:.
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In 2015, Joan Jonas represented the United States of America at the Venice Biennale.
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Joan Jonas was the sixth female artist to represent the United States at Venice since 1990.
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In 2019 Joan Jonas work was presented at the Animalesque group show at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden.
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In 2009, Jonas was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
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In 2012, Joan Jonas was honored on the occasion of the Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit.
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In 2023 Joan Jonas was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as an Honorary Royal Academician.
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Joan Jonas is represented in New York City by Gladstone Gallery, after previously being represented by Gavin Brown's enterprise.
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Joan Jonas is represented in Los Angeles by Rosamund Felsen Gallery.