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Joan Jonas
Born
Joan Amerman Edwards

(1936-07-13) July 13, 1936 (age 88)
New York City, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
Known forVideo art, performance art, sculpture
MovementPerformance art
AwardsFoundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1995

Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.[2]

Early life and education

Jonas was born in 1936 in New York City.[3][4], Electronic Arts Intermix, Retrieved August 13, 2014.</ref> In 1958 she received a bachelor's degree in Art History from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.[3] She 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.[3] Immersed in New York's downtown art scene of the 1960s, Jonas studied with the choreographer Trisha Brown for two years.[5] Jonas also worked with choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton.[6]

Work

File:Joan Jonas, Crystal Sculpture from Reanimation 2010-13 1 13 18 -moma (26124039387).jpg

Exhibitions and performances

Performances

Jonas has performed her works at countless institutions and venues, including:

Solo exhibitions

Jonas has had a number of solo exhibitions, including:

Group exhibitions

Jonas has participated in many international group exhibitions, including:

In 2009, she exhibited for the first (and only other) time at the Venice Biennale.[20]

In 2015, Jonas represented the United States of America at the Venice Biennale.[21][22] She was the sixth female artist to represent the United States at Venice since 1990.[20]

Recognition

Jonas has been awarded fellowships and grants for choreography, video, and visual arts from the National Endowment for the Arts; Rockefeller Foundation; Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund; Television Laboratory at WNET/13, New York; Artists' Television Workshop at WXXI-TV, Rochester, New York; and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).[5] Jonas has received the Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art Prize at the Tokyo International Video Art Festival, the Polaroid Award for Video, and the American Film Institute Maya Deren Award for Video.[1]

In 2009, Jonas was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[20]

In 2012, Jonas was honored on the occasion of the Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit.[23]

Jonas was named Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2016.[24] In 2018, Jonas won the Kyoto Prize for Art.[25]

Jonas' has received awards from Anonymous Was A Woman (1998); the Rockefeller Foundation (1990); American Film Institute’s Maya Deren Award for Video (1989); Guggenheim Foundation (1976); and the National Endowment for the Arts (1974).[6]

Art market

Joan Jonas is represented in New York City by Gavin Brown's enterprise[26] and in Los Angeles by Rosamund Felsen Gallery.[27]

In addition to working on her art, Jonas has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.[28]

Public collections

Jonas' work can be found in a number of public institutions, including:

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty: Joan Jonas ACT at MIT - MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
  2. ^ "Artist Joan Jonas", Venice Bienniale, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "Joan Jonas: Biography" Archived 2011-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 203. ISBN 0714878774. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ a b "Collection Online - Joan Jonas". Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Joan Jonas". pbs.org.
  7. ^ "Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Dia Art Foundation, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  8. ^ "Joan Jonas" Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  9. ^ "Joan Jonas", Performa, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  10. ^ "Art Night: Southwark Cathedral", ICA, Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  11. ^ Stone, Katie. "Joan Jonas: Five Works Queens Museum of Art", Brooklyn Rail, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  12. ^ "Joan Jonas: Light Time Tales", HangarBicocca, Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  13. ^ "Safety Curtain 2014/2015: Joan Jonas", a project by museum in progress, opening: November 14, 2014, Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  14. ^ Staff, N. Y. R. "'Joan Jonas: What Is Found in the Windowless House Is True'". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  15. ^ "Joan Jonas", Tate Modern, Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  16. ^ Schwabsky, Barry (September 4, 2019). "Joan Jonas: Moving Off The Land II". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  17. ^ Julia Halperin (April 16, 2014), Video veteran Joan Jonas to represent US in Venice Archived 2014-04-17 at the Wayback Machine The Art Newspaper.
  18. ^ "Point of View", New Museum, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  19. ^ "Artists in the exhibition" Archived 2014-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, MoCA Los Angeles, Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  20. ^ a b c Sebastian Smee (April 26, 2014). "Joan Jonas to represent US at Venice Biennale". Boston Globe.
  21. ^ Carol Vogel (April 15, 2014), Joan Jonas to Represent United States at 2015 Venice Biennale New York Times.
  22. ^ Smith, Roberta (May 8, 2015). "Review: Joan Jonas's Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  23. ^ Gary Shapiro (May 25, 2012), They Can Surely Stand the Heat Wall Street Journal.
  24. ^ "Art Icon 2016: Joan Jonas". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  25. ^ Greenberger, Alex (June 15, 2018). "Joan Jonas Wins $900,000 Kyoto Prize". ARTnews. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  26. ^ "Gavin Brown's enterprise - Artists - Joan Jonas". gavinbrown.biz. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  27. ^ "Artists - Rosamund Felsen Gallery". rosamundfelsen.com. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  28. ^ Alex Greenberger (November 27, 2018), Aiming to Preserve Artists’ Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects ARTnews.
  29. ^ Cite error: The named reference Johnson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  30. ^ "Collection Online: Joan Jonas", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Retrieved August 17, 2014.

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