Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas | |
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Jonas in 2010 | |
| Born | Joan Amerman Edwards July 13, 1936 New York City, New York, US |
| Known for | Video art, performance art, sculpture |
| Movement | Performance art |
| Awards | Maya Deren Award, 1989 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1995 Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 1998 Kyoto Prize, 2018 |
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) 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.