Artworks · Joan Jonas

Whale heart drawing

2024 · Pencil on paper

21 1/2 × 14 3/4" (54.6 × 37.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

To Touch Sound

2024 · Three high-definition videos (color, sound; 11:42 min., 9:00 min., and 9:07 min.) and painted wooden structure

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Art Against Immigration Ban Letter Portfolio

2017 · One from a portfolio of nine digital prints

composition: 11 1/4 × 7 13/16" (28.5 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/4" (29.6 × 20.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mirror Pieces Installation II

2014 · Super 8 color film transferred to digital video, silent, 3 min. 24 sec. loop; mirrored glass, costumes from performance (cotton twill, polyester, and mirrored glass), wooden hangers, and white nylon cord

Installed: 360 × 172 × 146 cm (141 3/4 × 67 3/4 × 57 1/2 in.); 360.1 × 172.1 × 146.1 cm (141 3/4 × 67 3/4 × 57 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Reanimation

2010 · Multimedia installation with four videos (color, sound and silent) projected on custom screens; prefabricated house structure; two benches made by Ed Gavagan; crystal sculpture; two video sculptures with wood, trestles, and video (Under the Glacier [color, sound; 18:33 min.] and Fish [color, silent; 8:51 min.]); fifteen ink drawings on paper; three oil stick drawings on paper; and two china marker wall drawings

Museum of Modern Art

Waltz from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image

2003 · Video (color, sound)

7:03 min.

Museum of Modern Art

My New Theater I: Tap Dancing

1997 · Video sculpture with painted wood box, wooden trestles, and standard-definition video (color, sound; 4:15 min.), gelatin silver prints, and wooden props

Overall dimensions: 65 1/2 x 20 x 73'' (166.4 x 50.8 x 185.4 cm)

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Volcano Saga

1989 · Video (color, sound)

28:30 min.

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Big Market

1984 · Video (color, sound)

23:36 min.

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Double Lunar Dogs

1984 · Video (color, sound)

24 min.

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He Saw Her Burning

1983 · Video (color, sound)

19:32 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Script for Upside Down and Backwards

1980 · Paint on glass

Overall: 18 × 18 × 1/4 in. (45.7 × 45.7 × 0.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Upsidedown and Backwards

1980 · Video (color, sound)

29:03 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Heart from Hurricane Series

1979 · Aquatint

composition and sheet: 23 7/16 × 35 3/8" (59.6 × 89.9 cm)

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Rainbow from Hurricane Series

1979 · Aquatint

composition and sheet: 23 3/8 × 35 3/8" (59.3 × 89.9 cm)

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Hurricane from Hurricane Series

1979 · Aquatint

composition and sheet: 23 7/16 × 35 7/16" (59.5 × 90 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Reflexion from Hurricane Series

1979 · Aquatint

composition and sheet: 23 1/2 × 35 3/8" (59.7 × 89.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sun from Hurricane Series

1979 · Aquatint

composition and sheet: 23 9/16 × 35 3/8" (59.9 × 89.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hurricane Series

1979 · Portfolio of five aquatints

composition and sheet (each approx.): 23 7/16 × 35 3/8" (59.6 × 89.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mirage

1976 · Multimedia installation with six standard-definition videos, props, stages, and fourteen photographs

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

1976 · Video (color, sound)

24:06 min.

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Good Night Good Morning

1976 · Video (black and white, sound)

11:38 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Glass Puzzle

1973 · Video (black and white, sound)

17:27 min.

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Barking

1973 · Video (black and white, sound)

2:22 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Three Returns

1973 · Video (black and white, sound)

13:14 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Songdelay

1973 · 16mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound)

18:35 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Left Side Right Side

1972 · Video (black and white, sound)

8:50 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy

1972 · Video (black and white, sound)

23 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Vertical Roll

1972 · Video (black and white, sound)

19:38 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Vertical Roll

1972 · Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, black-and-white, sound, 19 min., 38 sec.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy

1972 · Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, black-and-white, sound, 17 min., 24 sec.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Masks and props

Rubber, papier-mache, metal mesh, fabric, ribbon, fabric, plastic, wood, glass, stone, and other materials

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Volcano Saga

Colored pencil and cut-and-taped paper on paper

20 7/8 × 17" (53 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art