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'{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox artist | bgcolour = #6495ED | name = Joan Jonas | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Joan Amerman Edwards | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|7|13}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | field = [[Video art]], [[performance art]], [[sculpture]] | training = | movement = [[Performance art]] | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1995 }} '''Joan Jonas''' (born July 13, 1936) is an American [[visual artist]] and a pioneer of [[video art|video]] and [[performance art]], who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name=MIT>[http://act.mit.edu/people/professors/joan-jonas/ Faculty: Joan Jonas] ACT at MIT - MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://joanjonasvenice2015.com/artist-joan-jonas/ "Artist Joan Jonas"], Venice Bienniale, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> ==Early life and education== Jonas was born in 1936 in [[New York City]].<ref name="EAI">[http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=408 "Joan Jonas: Biography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121122518/http://eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=408 |date=2011-01-21 }}</ref><ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |last1=Phaidon Editors |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=0714878774 |page=203}}</ref>, 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.<ref name=EAI/> She later studied sculpture and drawing at the [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|School of the Museum of Fine Arts]] in Boston and received an MFA in Sculpture from [[Columbia University]] in 1965.<ref name=EAI/> Immersed in New York's downtown art scene of the 1960s, Jonas studied with the choreographer [[Trisha Brown]] for two years.<ref name=GuggenheimBio>{{cite web |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/9903 |title=Collection Online - Joan Jonas |publisher=[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] |accessdate=June 8, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181309/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/9903 |archivedate=April 16, 2014 }}</ref> Jonas also worked with choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton.<ref name="Joan Jonas">{{cite web |title=Joan Jonas |url=https://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/joan-jonas |website=pbs.org}}</ref> ==Work== [[File:Joan Jonas, Crystal Sculpture from Reanimation 2010-13 1 13 18 -moma (26124039387).jpg|thumb]] Though Jonas began her career as a [[Sculpture|sculptor]], by 1968 she moved into what was then leading-edge territory: mixing [[performance art|performance]] with props and [[video art|mediated images]], situated outdoors in urban or rural landscapes and/or industrial environments. Between 1968-1971, Jonas performed ''Mirror Pieces'', works which used mirrors to as a central motif or prop.<ref name="Johnson">Johnson, Cecile. [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2930 "MoMA The Collection: Joan Jonas"], Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> In these early performances, the mirror became a symbol of (self-)portraiture, [[representation (arts)|representation]], the body, and real vs. imaginary, while also sometimes adding an element of danger and a connection to the audience that was integral to the work. In ''Wind'' (1968), Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.eai.org/titles/wind |title=Electronic Arts Intermix: Wind, Joan Jonas |website=www.eai.org |access-date=2017-03-31}}</ref> In 1970, Jonas went on a long trip to Japan — where she bought her first video camera and saw [[Noh]], [[Bunraku]] and [[Kabuki]] theater — with the sculptor [[Richard Serra]].<ref>Lisa Cohen (April 5, 2015), [http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/joan-jonas-reanimation-venice-biennale/ Joan Jonas: All at Once] ''[[T: The New York Times Style Magazine]]''.</ref> Her video performances between 1972 and 1976 pared the cast down to one actor, the artist herself, performing in her New York loft as ''Organic Honey'', her seminal alter-ego invented as an "electronic erotic seductress," whose doll-like visage seen reflected bits on camera explored the fragmented female image and women’s shifting roles. drawings, costumes, masks, and interactions with the recorded image were effects that optically related to a doubling of perception and meaning.<ref name=Johnson/> In one such work, ''Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy'' (1972), Jonas scans her own fragmented image onto a video screen.<ref name=Johnson/> In ''Disturbances'' (1973), a woman swims silently beneath another woman's reflection.<ref name=Morgan1996>{{cite news |author=Susan Morgan |date=April 21, 1996 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-21/entertainment/ca-60900_1_joan-jonas |title=Finding the Emotion in Images |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> ''Songdelay'' (1973), filmed with both [[telephoto lens|telephoto]] and [[wide-angle lens]]es (which produce opposing extremes in depth of field) drew on Jonas' travels in Japan, where she saw groups of [[Noh|Noh performers]] clapping wood blocks and making angular movements. In a video interview for MoMA, Jonas described her work as androgynous; earlier works were more involved in the search for a feminine vernacular in art, she explains, and, unlike sculpture and painting, video was more open, less dominated by men.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fisher |first=Cora |title=Joan Jonas ''Mirage'' |journal=The Brooklyn Rail |date=May 2010 |url=http://brooklynrail.org/2010/05/artseen/joan-jonas-mirage}}</ref> In 1975, Jonas appeared as a performer in the movie ''Keep Busy'', by the photographer [[Robert Frank]] and novelist-screenwriter [[Rudy Wurlitzer]].<ref name=Morgan1996 /> In 1976 with ''The Juniper Tree'', Jonas arrived at a narrative structure from diverse literary sources, such as [[fairy tale]]s, mythology, poetry, and [[folk music|folk songs]], formalizing a highly complex, [[nonlinear narrative|nonlinear method of presentation]]. Using a colorful theatrical set and recorded sound, ''The Juniper Tree'' retold a [[Grimm Brothers]] tale of an [[archetype|archetypal]] evil stepmother and her family. In the 1990s, Jonas’ ''My New Theater'' series moved away from a dependence on her physical presence. The three pieces investigated, in sequence: a [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton]] dancer and his local culture; a dog jumping through a hoop while Jonas draws a landscape; and finally, using stones, costumes, memory-laden objects, and her dog, <!-- in a? -->a [[video art|video]] about the act of performing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/85900?locale=en |title=Joan Jonas. My New Theater 1. 1997 {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2017-04-01}}</ref> She also created 'Revolted by the Thought of Known Places…'' (1992) and ''Woman in the Well'' (1996/2000). In her [[Installation art|installation]]/performance commissioned for ''[[Documenta]] 11'', ''Lines in the Sand'' (2002), Jonas investigated themes of the self and the body in a performance installation based on the writer [[H.D.]]’s (Hilda Doolittle) epic poem "Helen in Egypt" (1951–55), which reworks [[Helen of Troy|the myth of Helen of Troy]]. Jonas sited many of her early performances at [[The Kitchen]], including ''Funnel'' (1972) and the screening of [[Vertical roll|''Vertical Roll'']] (1972). In ''The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things'', produced by [[The Renaissance Society]] in 2004,<ref>[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/440/joan-jonas-lines-in-the-sand-and-the-shape-the-scent-the-feel-of-things/ Joan Jonas at the Renaissance Society] Accessed 2018-01-08.</ref> Jonas draws on [[Aby Warburg]]'s work on [[Hopi mythology|Hopi imagery]]. Since 1970, Jonas has spent part of every summer in [[Cape Breton (Nova Scotia)|Cape Breton, Nova Scotia]]. She has lived and worked in Greece, Morocco, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, and Ireland.<ref name=Morgan1996 /> 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]]. While she is widely known in Europe, her groundbreaking performances are lesser known in the United States, where, as critic [[Douglas Crimp]] wrote of her work in 1983, "the rupture that is effected in modernist practices has subsequently been repressed, smoothed over."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artists/joan-jonas/artworks?order=asc&order_by=Title |title=Joan Jonas — Collections — Walker Art Center |last=Art |first=Walker |website=www.walkerart.org |language=en |access-date=2017-04-01}}</ref> Yet, in restaging early and recent works, Jonas continues to find new layers of meanings in themes and questions of [[gender]] and identity that have fueled her art for over thirty years. Jonas' performance inspired by the writings of German anthropologist [[Aby Warburg]], ''The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things,'' was commissioned by [[Dia Art Foundation|Dia Beacon]] and was twice performed between 2005 and 2006. This project established an ongoing and continuing collaboration with the pianist [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.diaart.org/program/exhibitions-projects/joan-jonas-the-shape-the-scent-the-feel-of-things-performance-series |title=Joan Jonas:''The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things'' |year=2005 |accessdate=December 17, 2018 |website=Dia Beacon}}</ref> For the season 2014/2015 in the [[Vienna State Opera]] Joan Jonas designed a large-scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series ''Safety Curtain'', conceived by [[museum in progress]].<ref>[http://www.mip.at/projects/eiserner-vorhang Safety Curtain 2014/15: Joan Jonas]. Accessed 2014-10-09.</ref> Jonas' was also featured as a choreographer for Robert Ashley's Opera titled Celestial Excursions in 2003<ref name="Joan Jonas"/> ===Teaching=== From 1993, the New York-based Jonas spent part of each year in Los Angeles, teaching a course in New Genres at the [[UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture|UCLA School of the Arts]].<ref name=Morgan1996 /> In 1994, she was made a full professor at the [[State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart]], Germany.<ref name=Morgan1996 /> Since 1998, she has been a professor of [[visual arts]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), where she is currently Professor Emerita in Art, Culture, and Technology within the School of Architecture and Planning.<ref name=MIT/> ==Exhibitions and performances== ===Performances=== Jonas has performed her works at countless institutions and venues, including: *[[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis (1974) *[[The Kitchen]], New York (1975) *[[San Francisco Museum of Art]] (1976) *[[Museum of Fine Arts Berne|Kunstmuseum Bern]] (2004) *''The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things'', [[Dia:Beacon]] (2006)<ref>[http://www.diaart.org/programs/main/14 "Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819103015/http://www.diaart.org/programs/main/14 |date=2014-08-19 }}, Dia Art Foundation, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> *[[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive]] (2008)<ref>[http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/press/release/TXT0186 "Joan Jonas"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819084631/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/press/release/TXT0186 |date=2014-08-19 }}, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> *PERFORMA 13, (2013)<ref>[http://13.performa-arts.org/artists/joan-jonas "Joan Jonas"], Performa, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> * Art Night (2016)<ref>[https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/art-night-southwark-cathedral-joan-jonas-and-jason-moran "Art Night: Southwark Cathedral"], ICA, Retrieved July 8, 2016.</ref> * Oberlin College ===Solo exhibitions=== Jonas has had a number of solo exhibitions, including: *[[Stedelijk Museum]] (1994) *[[Rosamund Felsen Gallery]], Los Angeles (2003) *Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City (2003) *''Joan Jonas: Five Works,'' [[Queens Museum of Art]] (2003)<ref>Stone, Katie. [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/02/artseen/joan "Joan Jonas: Five Works Queens Museum of Art"], ''Brooklyn Rail'', Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> *''Joan Jonas. Light Time Tales'', [[HangarBicocca]], Milan (2014)<ref>[http://www.hangarbicocca.org/exhibitions/what-s-on/Joan-Jonas "Joan Jonas: Light Time Tales"], ''HangarBicocca'', Retrieved October 9, 2014.</ref> *''Safety Curtain.'', [[Vienna State Opera]], Vienna (2014/15)<ref>[http://www.mip.at/projects/eiserner-vorhang "Safety Curtain 2014/2015: Joan Jonas"], a project by [[museum in progress]], opening: November 14, 2014, Retrieved October 9, 2014.</ref> *''what is found in the windowless house is true,'' [[Gavin Brown's Enterprise]], NY (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/event/joan-jonas-found-windowless-house-true/|title='Joan Jonas: What Is Found in the Windowless House Is True'|last=Staff|first=N. Y. R.|website=The New York Review of Books|language=en|access-date=2019-09-10}}</ref> * ''Joan Jonas'', [[Tate Modern]] (2018)<ref>[https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/joan-jonas "Joan Jonas"], Tate Modern, Retrieved December 26, 2018.</ref> *''Moving Off the Land II'', at [[Ocean Space]], Venice (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2019/09/artseen/Joan-Jonas-Moving-Off-The-Land-II|title=Joan Jonas: Moving Off The Land II|last=Schwabsky|first=Barry|date=2019-09-04|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-10}}</ref> ===Group exhibitions=== Jonas has participated in many international group exhibitions, including: *[[Documenta]], Kassel, Germany (Jonas has participated six times since 1972).<ref>Julia Halperin (April 16, 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Video-veteran-Joan-Jonas-to-represent-US-in-Venice/32358 Video veteran Joan Jonas to represent US in Venice] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417071553/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Video-veteran-Joan-Jonas-to-represent-US-in-Venice/32358 |date=2014-04-17 }} ''[[The Art Newspaper]].''</ref> *''Point of View: A Contemporary Anthology of the Moving Image'', [[New Museum]](2004)<ref>[http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/415 "Point of View"], New Museum, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> *''Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution'', [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]] (2007)<ref>[http://sites.moca.org/wack/2007/07/25/wack-art-and-the-feminist-revolution/ "Artists in the exhibition"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227133824/http://sites.moca.org/wack/2007/07/25/wack-art-and-the-feminist-revolution/ |date=2014-02-27 }}, MoCA Los Angeles, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> In 2009, she exhibited for the first (and only other) time at the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref name=Smee2014>{{cite news |author=Sebastian Smee |date=April 26, 2014 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/04/26/representing-venice-biennale-mit-artist-joan-jonas-will-step-into-bigger-spotlight/TuvPCF3qOT5e4ijxHxW6FI/story.html |title=Joan Jonas to represent US at Venice Biennale |newspaper=[[Boston Globe]]}}</ref> In 2015, Jonas represented the [[United States of America]] at the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>Carol Vogel (April 15, 2014), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/joan-jonas-to-represent-united-states-at-2015-venice-biennale/ Joan Jonas to Represent United States at 2015 Venice Biennale] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/arts/design/review-joan-jonass-venice-biennale-pavilion-is-a-triumph.html |title=Review: Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=2015-05-08 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-04-01 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She was the sixth female artist to represent the United States at Venice since 1990.<ref name=Smee2014 /> ==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|WNET/13]], New York; Artists' Television Workshop at [[WXXI-TV]], Rochester, New York; and [[German Academic Exchange Service|Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst]] (DAAD).<ref name=GuggenheimBio /> 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 [[Maya Deren Award|American Film Institute Maya Deren Award for Video]].<ref name=MIT /> In 2009, Jonas was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]].<ref name=Smee2014/> In 2012, Jonas was honored on the occasion of the [[The Kitchen|Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit]].<ref>Gary Shapiro (May 25, 2012), [https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304707604577425102775233974 They Can Surely Stand the Heat] ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref> Jonas was named [[Whitechapel Gallery]] Art Icon 2016.<ref name="Whitechapel">{{cite web |title=Art Icon 2016: Joan Jonas |url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/support/art-icon-swarovski/art-icon-swarovski-peter-doig/art-icon-swarovski-joan-jonas/ |website=Whitechapel Gallery |accessdate=24 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In 2018, Jonas won the [[Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy|Kyoto Prize]] for Art.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/06/15/joan-jonas-wins-900000-kyoto-prize/ |title=Joan Jonas Wins $900,000 Kyoto Prize |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=2018-06-15 |website=ARTnews |language=en-US |access-date=2018-06-15}}</ref> 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).<ref name="Joan Jonas"/> ==Art market== Joan Jonas is represented in New York City by [[Gavin Brown's enterprise]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gavinbrown.biz/artists/joan_jonas/works |title=Gavin Brown’s enterprise - Artists - Joan Jonas |website=gavinbrown.biz |access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref> and in Los Angeles by [[Rosamund Felsen Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rosamundfelsen.com/artists |title=Artists - Rosamund Felsen Gallery |website=rosamundfelsen.com |language=en |access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref> In addition to working on her art, Jonas has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.<ref>Alex Greenberger (November 27, 2018), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/aiming-preserve-artists-legacies-hauser-wirth-founds-nonprofit-institute-archival-projects-11395/ Aiming to Preserve Artists’ Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects] ''[[ARTnews]]''.</ref> ==Public collections== Jonas' work can be found in a number of public institutions, including: *[[Museum of Modern Art]], New York<ref name=Johnson/> *[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/24749 "Collection Online: Joan Jonas"], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Retrieved August 17, 2014.</ref> *[[Tate Modern]], London ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *{{cite book |first=Susan |last=Morgan |title=I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) |year=2007 |publisher=[[The MIT Press]] |isbn=1-84638-025-1}} * Maufras, Frederic. "Joan Jonas". Parachute 121, para-para, January–March 2006. http://www.parachute.ca/para_para/21/para21_Maufras2.html ==External links== *[https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joan-jonas-vertical-roll-1972 Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, MoMA Learning] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110121122518/http://eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=408 Biography: Joan Jonas] and [http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=408 list of video works] at [[Electronic Arts Intermix]]. *[http://www.vdb.org/artists/joan-jonas Video art works] distributed by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151112113234/http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20141217043645/http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/SConsultaAutor?ID_IDIOMA=en&ope=2&criteri=Jonas%2C+Joan Joan Jonas, Mediateca Media Art Space] *Joan Jonas in the [http://catalogue.nimk.nl/ Netherlands Media Art Institute] *[http://brooklynrail.org/2010/05/artseen/joan-jonas-mirage "Joan Jonas: ''Mirage''"] by Cora Fisher, ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'' (May 2010) *[http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/aslist/People$00404198/0/primaryMakerAlpha-asc?t:state:flow=2797ddc0-dc0a-43f3-9900-60c9abbd79d8 Joan Jonas at New Mexico Museum of Art] *[http://www.fundacionbotin.org/exposicion/joanjonas/index.html "Joan Jonas: ''Stream or river, flight or pattern''"] Fundación Botín (2016) {{Performance art}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jonas, Joan}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Artists from New York City]] [[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]] [[Category:American video artists]] [[Category:American women video artists]] [[Category:American performance artists]] [[Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni]] [[Category:Mount Holyoke College alumni]] [[Category:20th-century American women artists]] [[Category:Kyoto laureates in Arts and Philosophy]]'