Artist

Joan Jonas

Portrait of Joan Jonas

American, b. 1936

Joan Jonas is an American artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Joan Jonas was born in New York City.

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.

Collections represented

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