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Joan Jonas

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American artist (born 1936)

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1936 · age 90
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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.

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Joan Jonas in her Soho loft, 1973. Photograph by Chris Kraemer.Joan Jonas in her Soho loft, 1973. Photograph by Chris Kraemer.

Awards 4

2018Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
1998Anonymous Was A Woman Award
1989Maya Deren Award
1974Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

Country
United States
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
living
Dates
Born 1936 · age 90
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