Whale heart drawing
2024 · Pencil on paper
21 1/2 × 14 3/4" (54.6 × 37.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Joan Jonas
Artist
New York, USA
TextilePerformance ArtNew Media
Representation
None documented
14
Institutional Exhibitions
33
Works in Collection
65
Assets Indexed
1
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Publications Referenced
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- • Performance Art
- • New Media
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The Arts for Television
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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For 25 Years: Crown Point Press
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987–1988
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Selections from the Video Study Collection: 1968�1987
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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New Work on Paper 3: Spatial Relationships in Video
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
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New Work on Paper 3
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
About
Why this artist matters now
Joan Jonas pioneered video art and performance as primary media in the 1970s, constructing layered narratives that blend ritualistic gesture, found objects, and projected imagery. Working across video, sculpture, and live performance, she treats the body and domestic space as material sites for investigation rather than representation. Her practice emerged from a postwar artistic context that questioned the boundaries between visual art and theater.
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Wauters Workshop
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Alexander Morton & Co.
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Manchu
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Knoll International, Inc.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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