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Artist's Name: Joan Jonas
Preferred medium: video / film
birth year: 1936
Nationality: US
City: New York

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Joan Jonas' experiments and productions in the late sixties and early seventies were essential in the formulation of performance, video, conceptual art and contemporary theatre. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded as a pioneer in those fields, especially video art and performance. Jonas studied art in, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York and soon became connected with the world of dance. Her first works investigated notions of space and phenomena of perception, where elements from dance, Japanese Kabuki or Noh theatre, sculpture and, most of all, drawing converge. In his performances, she has developed an emblematic vocabulary, synthesising ritual gestures and symbolic objects, and including masks, costumes and mirrors, playing with archaic methods of creation of optical illusions or special effects. She began using video in her performances in Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy (1972) -which is part of the MACBA Collection-, including live cameras and monitors as a means of transformation and superimposition of images, space and time. The exhibition will include works done from the early seventies to closer, more recent productions in an attempt to track the narrative and formal constants in a work packed with elements deeply rooted in oral traditions. In her work, Jonas highlights the almost magical role of the narrator which constitutes and conveys a particular drama in each action. (MACBA Barcelona)

important exhibitions from Joan Jonas

Exhibition Location City Country Date
53. Biennale Venedig 2009 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 07.06.2009
Joan Jonas: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things MCASD - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego San Diego US 23.01.2011
Joan Jonas Bergen Kunsthall Bergen NO 25.02.2011
Joan Jonas Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve Genf CH 30.04.2008
Joan Jonas Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA Barcelona ES 20.09.2007
17th Biennale of Sydney Biennale Sydney Sydney AU 12.05.2010
Looking at Music MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 13.08.2008
DO / REDO / UNDO - 50 YEARS OF VIDEO PERFORMANCE WIELS Brüssel Brüssel BE 08.05.2010
Yokohama 2008 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama Triennale Tokio JP 30.09.2008
Joan Jonas Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume Paris FR 08.06.2005

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Galleries representing
Joan Jonas:

Galerie Reinhard Hauff
The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery
Wilkinson Gallery
Yvon Lambert
Yvon Lambert - New York
Yvon Lambert Paris

Collections representing
Joan Jonas

Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Frac Ile-de-France
Generali Foundation
Haifa Museum of Art
Julia Stoschek Collection
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Moderna Museet
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST