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Biography - Joan Jonas

Born

1936 New York City

Education

1965 Columbia University, New York City, M.F.A.
1958‑61 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M.A.
1958 Mount Holyoke College, MA. B.A in Art History

One Person Exhibitions/performances

2008 “Joan Jonas, Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room,” Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2007 “Joan Jonas, Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, exhibition and performance, Barcelona, Spain
Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
Yvon Lambert, New York
2006 Rosamund Felsen Galley, Santa Monica, California
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2005 “Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things”, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York
“Joan Jonas: My New Theater V”, Yvon Lambert, Paris
“Joan Jonas: Small Works 1968-2005”, Yvon Lambert; Jeu de Paume – Site Sully, Hotel de Sully; Le Plateau, Paris, France
1996 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Performance Piece, Video Lace, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 The Clocktower, NY (opening night performance of a group show)
1981 “He Saw Her Burning”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1980 “Mirage”, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
“Double Lunar Dogs”, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
“He Saw Her Burning”, Genazzano, Italy; The Factory, Auspices of DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1979 “The Juniper Tree, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; San Francisco Art Institute, CA
“Upside Down and Backwards”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA; The Performing Garage, NY
1978 “The Juniper Tree”, Vienna Performance Festival, Austria; 112 Mercer Street, NY
1977 “Mirage”, Vanguard Theater, Los Angeles, CA; Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany; Rome, Italy; Salle Patino, Geneva, Switzerland
1976 “Native Dance”, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
“Mirage”, Anthology Film Archives, NY
“The Juniper Tree”, (performance for children), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1975 “Twilight, Anthology Film Archives, NY, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
“Native Dance, And/Or”, Seattle, WA
1974 “Funnel”, The Kitchen, NY;
“Project ‘74”, Kunsthalle, Koln, Germany; Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Crepuscolo”, a night piece in a garden, Galerie Schema, Florence, Italy
1973 “Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll”, Leo Castelli Gallery; Festival d’Automne, Messee\Galleria, Paris, France; Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
1972 “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy”, Lo Guidice Gallery, NY; Galleria l’Attico, Rome, Italy; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Documenta V, Kassel, Germany; San Francisco Art Institute, CA; Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
“Delay, Delay”, a work performed on one shore of the Tiber River and viewed by the audience on the opposite shore, sponsored by Galleria l’Attico, Rome, Italy
1971 “Choreomania”, Loeb Center, NYU, NY
“Night Piece”, University of California at Irvine, CA
“Beach Piece II”, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
1970 “Underneath”, Alan Saret’s loft, NY
“Jones Beach Piece”, Jones Beach, Long Island, NY
“Mirror Piece”, 14th Street YMCA, NY,University of California at San Diego
1968 “Oad Lau”, St. Peter’s Church, NY

Installations

1983 The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1982 P.S I, Long Island City, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Documenta Kassel, Germany
1981 Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
1980 Retrospective, University Art Museum, U.C Berkeley
1979 The Juniper Tree, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Upside Down and Backwards, Sonnabend Gallery, NY
1977 Drawing Room, The School of Visual Arts, NY
Three Tales, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
1976 Stagesets, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2006 “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
2005 “The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice,” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina
“After the Act,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
“Marking Time,” LACE, Los Angeles, California
“Grey Flags,” Richard Artschwager, Wade Guyton, Georg Herold, Joan Jonas, David Lieske, Seth Price, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
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?,” Galerie Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
“Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image,” New Museum, New York
“Videodreams: between the cinematic and theatrical,” Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
“Flipside,” Artists Space, New York
2003 “Mirror Tenses,” University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
“Gloria,” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
“Video Acts Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center,Long Island City, New York
2002 “Lines in the Sand,” Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
“Gloria,” White Columns, New York, New York
“In the Shadow a Shadow,” Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
“Great Theater of the World,” Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
“Aquaria, The Fascinating World of Man and Water,” Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
2001 “Into the Light: The Projected and Interactive Image in American Art, 1964-1978,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000 “Century Cities,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Video/Performance: Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Electronic Images: Videokunst 1965-2000,” Villa Merkel /Bahnwaterhaus, Esslingen, Germany
“Escape,” Media City Seoul, Seoul, Korea
1999 “The American Century, Part II: 1950-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Circa 1968,” Museo de Arte Contemporânea, Fundacão de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“In the Shadow a Shadow,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
“The Hundredth Turn,” Harvestworks, Digital Media Art Center, New York
1998 “Songdelay and New Work,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
” Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object, 1949-1979,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; MAK - Osterreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum
1997 “Revolted by the thought of known places, My New Theater I,” World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 “Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California1996
“Woman in the Well,” Christine Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Be Specific,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec
1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1989 “Ein Traum mit schlagsahne” in honor of DAAD’s 25th Anniversary, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, West Germany
1987 “For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1985 “From Crown Point Press”, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Public Collections (prints)

The Museum of Modern Art, NY

Films

1973 Songdelay, sound, b/w, 19 min.
1971 Paul Revere, sound, (with Richard Serra) b/w, 9 min.
Veil, Silent, 6 min. loop
1968 Wind, Silent, b/w 5’30min.

Video Tapes

1985 Volcano Saga (Polaroid Video Artist Award, 1987)
1981 Upsidedown and Backwards, 28 min, color
1977‑78 I Want to Live in the Country and Other Romances, 28 min., Color
1976 Goodnight Goodmorning, 11 min., b/w
1974 Glass Puzzle, 26 min., b/w
Merlo, 16 min., b/w
Pool, 11 min., b/w
1973 Two Women, 20 min., silent, b/w
Barking, 12 min., b/w
Three Returns, 12 min., b/w
1972 Left Side, Right Side, 7 min, b/w
Vertical Roll, 20 min., b/w
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 23 min., b/w

Lectures/workshops

1982 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1981 Museum of Modern Art, NY
1980 Visiting artist, Wright State University, OH
1979 Visiting artist, School of Art, University of Oklahoma, OK
Visiting artist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
1975 Performance panel with Vito Acconci, Yvonne Rainer and Alan Kaprow, College Art Association, Washington, D.C
Visiting artist, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting artist, San Diego State University, CA
Visiting artist, Long Beach State College, CA
1974 Guest lecturer, Yale University, CT
Guest lecturer, Princeton University, NJ
Guest lecturer, Minnneapolis College of Art, MN
1972 Visiting artist in video, School of Visual Arts, NY
1968‑69 Columbia University, NY
1961‑62 Children’s art, The Brearley School, NY
1959‑61 Lectures in Art History, Boston Museum School, MA
1958‑61 Various children’s workshops, Boston Public Schools, MA

Awards

1987 Third Annual Polaroid Video Art Award (for video piece Volcanic Saga)