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Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) 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". Jonas' projects and experiments were influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium.
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Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) 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". Jonas' projects and experiments were influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium.
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1995
- Performance art
- American
Mar 1, 2024 · Meet One of America’s Most Elusive Artists. Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of...
Mar 20, 2024 · Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA. A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.
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Joan Jonas. American Performance Artist, Film Maker, Installation Artist. Born: July 13, 1936 - New York. Movements and Styles: Performance Art. , Video Art. , Feminist Art. "I rehearsed my work only at night, and when I rehearsed, I stepped into another space that was not the same as my everyday space. You could almost call it a séance." 1 of 4.
- American
- July 13, 1936
- New York
The most comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States, Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning traces the full breadth of her career, from works that explore the encounter between performance and technology to recent installations about ecology and the landscape.
New York, NY. ACT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas’ maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture, and ecology. In a New York Times Magazine profile, Jonas says she has no intention of simplifying anything. This exhibition at the MoMA is the most comprehensive Joan Jonas retrospective in the US to date.
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