# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-jonas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:17:58.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-jonas"
name: "Joan Jonas"
slug: "joan-jonas"
description: "Joan Jonas 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. 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."
tagline: "American artist (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Jonas_(4518929754).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.97602933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5975013/"
    handle:    "nm5975013"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan Jonas"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جون جوناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջոն Ջոնաս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джонас, Джоан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1309429"
    title: "Joan Jonas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump