Born in 1936 in New York, USA
Lives and works in New York

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020 – Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York, USA
2019 – Waltz, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2019 – Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, organized by the Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan,
2019 – Vertical Roll, Left Side Right Side, Double Lunar Dogs, Brooklyn Bridge, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2019 – Moving Off the Land II, Ocean Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venice, Italy
2019 – Joan Jonas, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2019 – I Know Why They Left, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2019 – They Come to Us Without a Word, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA
2018 – Promise of the Infinite: Joan Jonas and the Mirror, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, USA
2018 – Joan Jonas: Sources and Methods ACT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2018 – Joan Jonas, Tate Modern, London, UK
2017 – Does the Mirror Make the Picture, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 – Ice Drawings, Lizbeth and George Krupp Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA
2017 – what is found in a windowless house is true, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 439 West 127th Street, New York, USA
2016 – Volcano Saga, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
2016 – Reanimation, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 – L’Ecran: Sons d’Artifices / The Screen: Sounds of Light, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2016 – Joan Jonas: caudal o río, vuelo o ruta, Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain
2016 – From Away, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2016 – They Come to Us without a Word, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
2015 – Joan Jonas: Selected Films and Videos, 1972-2005, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, USA
2015 – Light Time Tales, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
2015 – They come to Us without a Word, La Biennale di Venezia, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2014 – Light Time Tales, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2014 – Joan Jonas year long program, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
2014 – Joan Jonas: Mirror Check, 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2014 – Joan Jonas: It blew right in my ear like the wind, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
2013 – Reanimation, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 – Joan Jonas, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2013 – Joan Jonas/Lawrence Weiner, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2013 – Masks, Dolls and Baskets, Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 – Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
2013 – Reanimation, WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013 – They came to us without a word, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
2012 – Lunar Rabbit, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2011 – My New Theater: Reading Dante III, MIT Media Lab Complex Lobby, Cambridge, USA
2011 – Volcano Saga & Drawing Languages, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2011 – Broken Symmetry, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2011 – oan Jonas: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel Of Things, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
2011 – Reading Dante III, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2010 – Reading Dante IV, Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2010 – Joan Jonas: Reading Dante IV, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010 – Joan Jonas, Galleria Alessandro Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2009 – Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2009 – Begin Again, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 – Joan Jonas: From “My New Theatre” Series, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
2007-2008 – Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, travels to Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genèva, Switzerland
2007 – My Theater, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2006 – Joan Jonas: Two Works, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2005 – Joan Jonas: Survey 1968-2005, Le Plateau and Jeu de Paume/Hotel de Sully, Paris, France
2005 – Part I: Lines in the Sand, Part II: Recent Drawings, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005 – Moving in Place 1976-2000, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2005 – My New Theatre V, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2004 – Joan Jonas: Five Works, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2003 – Retrospective: Five Works, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
2003 – Video Retrospective, Museum Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 – Lines in the Sand, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2003 – Lines in the Sand, Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
2000 – In the Shadow a Shadow, Moving with No Pattern, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2000 – Performance, Video, Installation 1968-2000, A Retrospective, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany
2000 – Film and Video Work, 1968-76, DIA Center for the Arts, New York, USA
2000 – This Earth is a Flower, International Artists’ Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland
1999 – Moving with No Pattern, My New Theatre III, In the Shadow a Shadow and drawings, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
1997 – Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 – Props: Works 1994-1997, My New Theatre I, drawings and photographs, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
1994 – Revolted by the thought of known places_Sweeney Astray, (in conjunction with Works 1968-1994, A Retrospective), Stedelijk Museum, Westergasfabrik Holland Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1990 – Vanishing Point, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal, Canada
1984 – Joan Jonas: He Saw her Burning, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1982 – Upside Down and Backwards, Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1982 – ’60/’80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1980 – Upside Down and Backwards, Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada
1980 – Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
1980 – Music, Sound, Language Theater- John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Barry, Joan Jonas: Etchings from Crown Point Press, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1979 – The Juniper Tree, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1979 – Upside Down and Backwards, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
1977 – Drawing Room, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1977 – Three Tales, Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
1973 – Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll for Aspects de l’art actuel présentés par la Galérie Sonnabend, Musée Galliéra, Paris, France

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2019 – Reanimation, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, organized by the Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
2019 – Mirror Check (1970), Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
2019 – Mirror Piece I & II: Reconstruction (1969, 2018-19), Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
2019 – Moving Off the Land, Ocean Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venice, Italy
2019 – Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969, 2018-19), Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, USA
2019 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA
2018 – Mirror Piece II, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018 – Mirage, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018 – Lecture Performance with Jason Moran, Tate Modern, London, UK
2017 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Vienna, Austria
2017 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Sequences Festival, Reyjkavik, Iceland Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2016 – They come to us without a word II, The Kitchen, New York, USA
2015 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2015 – They come to us without a word II, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2014 – Reanimation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2014 – Reanimation, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2014 – Reanimation, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2013 – Reanimation, part of Perfroma 13, Roulette, New York, USA
2013 – Reanimation, Umeå Jazzfestival.Umeå, Sweden
2010 – Mirror Pieces I: Reconfigured, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2008 – Reading Dante, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2008 – The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 – Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2006 – The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
2006 – Crossed Waves, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2005 – The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Dia : Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
2000 – Construction in Process VIII 2000: This Earth is a Flower, International Artists’ Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland
1998 – Tangle, Performance Festival, Los Angeles, USA
1998 – If You Could Remember, It Would Be Simple Things, Witte De Witte, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1998 – The Turn of the Screw for The Object of Time, Rheinstahlhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 – Narcissus and Echo (collaboration with Paul Miller/DJ Spooky), World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1994 – Revolted by the thought of known places_Sweeney Astray, (in conjunction with Works 1968-1994, A Retrospective), Stedelijk Museum, Westergasfabrik Holland Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1988 – Brooklyn Bridge, Festival Electronique, Rennes, France
1983 – He Saw Her Burning, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; La Zattera di Babele, Genazzano, Italy
1981 – Double Lunar Dogs, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Il Gergo Inquieto, Teatro Falcone, Genoa, Italy; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; The Performing Garage, New York, USA
1977 – Three Tales, Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
1977 – Mirage, Vanguard Theater, Los Angeles, California; Salle Patino, Geneva, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; India/America Festival di Musica e Danza, Rome, Italy
1970 – Underneath, Alan Saret’s Spring Street loft, New York, USA
1969 – Mirror Piece I, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York; 10 Downtown, Gilles Larraine’s loft, New York; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
1968 – Oud Lau, St. Peter’s Church, New York, USA
1968 – Choreoconcerts Experimental Workshops, St. Peter’s Gymnasium, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2020 – Spheres, Skulls and Other Icons of the Interior, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2020 – Mercer Street, Fergus McCaffrey, New York, USA
2020 – The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2020 – Punta della Dogana, (curated by Muna El Fituri, Thomas Houseago, and Caroline Bourgeois), Venice, Italy
2019 – Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
2017 – Jubilation Inflation, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
2017 – Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today, National Portrait Gallery, USA
2017 – The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2994), Hessel Museum of Art, Hudson, USA
2017 – The Long Run, MoMA, New York, USA
2017 – Sequences VII, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 – Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures, New York City 1967-1977, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
2015 – DO DISTURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2015 – 15 rooms, Long Museum West Bund, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
2015 – The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2015 – Expressions in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2014 – Taipei Biennial, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 – Rumors of the Meteor, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2013 – In Situ, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
2009 – Venice Biennale, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2008 – 28th Sao Paulo Biennial: In Living Contact, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008 – Yokohama Biennial: Time Crevasse, Yokohama, Japan
2008 – Video Installation of Vertical Roll (1972), CUBITT Gallery, London, UK
2006 – The Power of Women, curated by Luca Beatrice, Caroline Bourgeois, Francesca Pasini, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2004 – Minimal artists try to make something look like nothing and conceptual artists try to make nothing look like something, or is it the other way around?, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2002 – Lines in the Sand, Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
2002 – Gloria, White Columns, New York, USA
2001 – Into the Light, Projection / Interaction: The Projected and Interactive Image in American Art,1964-1978, Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, USA
1999 – The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000. Part II: 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1997 – World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Canada-Musee des Beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Centre Pompidou-Musee National dʼArt Moderne, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reina Sofia National Museum Art Centre, Madrid, Spain

AWARDS

2018 – Kyoto Prize
2016 – The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award
2009 – The Guggenheim First Annual Art Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award
2008 – Francis J. Greenburger Awards
1998 – Anonymous Was A Woman award
1980 – Artists in Residence Grant TV Workshop, WXXI-TV, Rochester, New York
1974 – CAPS Award
1971 – CAPS Award
American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award for Video
THE CAT Fund
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin, Germany
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art prize, Tokyo, Japan
Japan International Video Art Festival, Japan
National Endowment for the Arts
Polaroid Award for Video
The Rockefeller Foundation
Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy

EDUCATION

1965 – Master of Fine Art, Columbia University, New York, USA
1958-1961 – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
1958 – Bachelor of Arts, Art History and Sculpture, Mount Holyoke College, USA