Joan Jonas
American artist · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1936 · age 90
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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2018Kyoto Prize in Arts and PhilosophyAward1998Anonymous Was A Woman AwardAward1989Maya Deren AwardAward1974Guggenheim FellowshipAward1936Born13 July 1936
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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.
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Born 1936 · age 90
