Nata a New York nel 1936
Vive e lavora a New York

MOSTRE PERSONALI SELEZIONATE

2020 – Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York, USA
2019 – Waltz, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Giappone
2019 – Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, organizzata da Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Giappone
2019 – Vertical Roll, Left Side Right Side, Double Lunar Dogs, Brooklyn Bridge, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlino, Germania
2019 – Moving Off the Land II, Ocean Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venezia, Italia
2019 – Joan Jonas, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portogallo
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, Londra, UK
2017 – Does the Mirror Make the Picture, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Islanda
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, Islanda
2016 – Reanimation, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Islanda
2016 – L’Ecran: Sons d’Artifices / The Screen: Sounds of Light, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Francia
2016 – Joan Jonas: caudal o río, vuelo o ruta, Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spagna
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, Svezia
2015 – They come to Us without a Word, La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione USA, Venezia, Italia
2014 – Light Time Tales, HangarBicocca, Milano, Italia
2014 – Joan Jonas year long program, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
2014 – Joan Jonas: Mirror Check, 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition, Messe Basel, Basilea, Svizzera
2014 – Joan Jonas: It blew right in my ear like the wind, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Giappone
2013 – Reanimation, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stoccolma, Svezia
2013 – Joan Jonas, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Roma, Italia
2013 – Joan Jonas/Lawrence Weiner, Yvon Lambert, Paris, Francia
2013 – Masks, Dolls and Baskets, Proyecto Paralelo, Città del Messico, Messico
2013 – Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
2013 – Reanimation, WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo, Giappone
2013 – They came to us without a word, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Giappone
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, Londra, UK
2011 – Broken Symmetry, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Giappone
2011 – Joan Jonas: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel Of Things, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
2011 – Reading Dante III, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norvegia
2010 – Reading Dante IV, Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milano, Italia
2010 – Joan Jonas: Reading Dante IV, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010 – Joan Jonas, Galleria Alessandro Bonomo, Roma, Italia
2009 – Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2009 – Begin Again, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germania
2009 – Joan Jonas: From “My New Theatre” Series, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Giappone
2007-2008 – Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, travels to Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ginevra, Svizzera
2007 – My Theater, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italia
2006 – Joan Jonas: Two Works, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italia
2005 – Joan Jonas: Survey 1968-2005, Le Plateau and Jeu de Paume/Hotel de Sully, Parigi, Francia
2005 – Part I: Lines in the Sand, Part II: Recent Drawings, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Giappone
2005 – Moving in Place 1976-2000, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2005 – My New Theatre V, Yvon Lambert, Parigi, Francia
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, Città del Messico, Messico
2003 – Lines in the Sand, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2003 – Lines in the Sand, Center for the Arts, Città del Messico, Messico
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, Germania
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, Polonia
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, Germania
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, Olanda
1990 – Vanishing Point, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal, Canada
1984 – Joan Jonas: He Saw her Burning, DAAD-Galerie, Berlino, Germania
1982 – Upside Down and Backwards, Documenta 8, Kassel, Germania
1982 – ’60/’80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Olanda
1980 – Upside Down and Backwards, Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada
1980 – Kunstmuseum, Berna, Svizzera
1980 – Music, Sound, Language Theater- John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Barry, Joan Jonas: Etchings from Crown Point Press, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Olanda
1979 – The Juniper Tree, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Olanda; Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londra, 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, Germania
1973 – Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll for Aspects de l’art actuel présentés par la Galérie Sonnabend, Musée Galliéra, Parigi, Francia

PERFORMANCE SELEZIONATE

2019 – Reanimation, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, organized by the Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Giappone
2019 – Mirror Check (1970), Serralves Museum, Porto, Portogallo
2019 – Mirror Piece I & II: Reconstruction (1969, 2018-19), Serralves Museum, Porto, Portogallo
2019 – Moving Off the Land, Ocean Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venezia, Italia
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, Londra, UK
2018 – Mirage, Tate Modern, Londra, UK
2018 – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes, Tate Modern, Londra, UK
2018 – Lecture Performance with Jason Moran, Tate Modern, Londra, 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, Islanda
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, Venezia, Italia
2014 – Reanimation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2014 – Reanimation, Louvre Museum, Parigi, Francia
2014 – Reanimation, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italia
2013 – Reanimation, part of Perfroma 13, Roulette, New York, USA
2013 – Reanimation, Umeå Jazzfestival.Umeå, Svezia
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, Berlino, Germania
2007 – Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room, Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spagna
2006 – The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
2006 – Crossed Waves, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italia
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, Polonia
1998 – Tangle, Performance Festival, Los Angeles, USA
1998 – If You Could Remember, It Would Be Simple Things, Witte De Witte, Rotterdam, Olanda
1998 – The Turn of the Screw for The Object of Time, Rheinstahlhalle, Stuttgart, Germania
1997 – Narcissus and Echo (collaboration with Paul Miller/DJ Spooky), World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Olanda
1994 – Revolted by the thought of known places_Sweeney Astray, (in conjunction with Works 1968-1994, A Retrospective), Stedelijk Museum, Westergasfabrik Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Olanda
1988 – Brooklyn Bridge, Festival Electronique, Rennes, Francia
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, Italia
1981 – Double Lunar Dogs, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Il Gergo Inquieto, Teatro Falcone, Genova, Italia; Kunsthalle Basel, Basilea, Svizzera; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Olanda; The Performing Garage, New York, USA
1977 – Three Tales, Documenta VI, Kassel, Germania
1977 – Mirage, Vanguard Theater, Los Angeles, California; Salle Patino, Ginevra, Svizzera; Kunsthalle Basel, Basilea, Svizzera; India/America Festival di Musica e Danza, Roma, Italia
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

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE SELEZIONATE

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, (a cura di Muna El Fituri, Thomas Houseago, e Caroline Bourgeois), Venezia, Italia
2019 – Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Parigi, Francia
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, Islanda
2016 – Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures, New York City 1967-1977, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
2015 – DO DISTURB, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi, Francia
2015 – 15 rooms, Long Museum West Bund, Xuhui District, Shanghai, Cina
2015 – The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano, Italia
2015 – Expressions in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Monaco, Germania
2014 – Taipei Biennial, a cura di Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 – Rumors of the Meteor, Frac Lorraine, Metz, Francia
2013 – In Situ, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Giappone
2009 – 53. Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italia
2008 – 28. Sao Paulo Biennial: In Living Contact, Sao Paulo, Brasile
2008 – Yokohama Biennial: Time Crevasse, Yokohama, Giappone
2008 – Video Installation of Vertical Roll (1972), CUBITT Gallery, London, UK
2006 – The Power of Women, a cura di Luca Beatrice, Caroline Bourgeois, Francesca Pasini, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italia
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, Olanda

COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE SELEZIONATE

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, Parigi, Francia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Amsterdam, Olanda
Reina Sofia National Museum Art Centre, Madrid, Spagna

PREMI

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), Berlino, Germania
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art prize, Tokyo, Giappone
Japan International Video Art Festival, Giappone
National Endowment for the Arts
Polaroid Award for Video
The Rockefeller Foundation
Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italia

ISTRUZIONE

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, Storia dell’arte e scultura, Mount Holyoke College, USA