B.A., Art History and Sculpture, Mount Holyoke College, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

M.F.A., Columbia University, New York

"the Wind sings", Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
“Come Closer”, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
“Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Good Night Good Morning”, MoMA, New York, NY
"Sun Signals," Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth Festival, Australia

"Joan Jonas - Draw on the wind," Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan

“Joan Jonas,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Inscribed in the Air," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York
Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy

"Moving Off the Land II," Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid
"Joan Jonas: Five Decades," Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

"Waltz," Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
"Joan Jonas: Five Rooms for Kyoto: 1972-2019," Kyoto, Japan, organized by the Inamori Foundation
"Vertical Roll, Left Side Right Side, Double Lunar Dogs, Brooklyn Bridge," Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
"In the Trees II," Natural History Museum, Bamberg, Germany
"Moving Off the Land II, Ocean Space," Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venice, Italy
"Joan Jonas," Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
"I Know Why They Left," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
"They Come to Us Without a Word," Fort Mason, San Francisco, California

"Promise of the Infinite: Joan Jonas and the Mirror," Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
"Joan Jonas: Sources and Methods," ACT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Joan Jonas," Tate Modern, London

"Does the Mirror Make the Picture," The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
"Ice Drawings," Lizbeth and George Krupp Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
"what is found in the windowless house is true," Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 439 West 127th Street, New York

"Volcano Saga," Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
"Reanimation," National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
"L'Ecran: Sons d'Artifices / The Screen: Sounds of Light," Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
"Joan Jonas: caudal o río, vuelo o ruta," Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain
"From Away," DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Québec, Canada
"They Come to us without a word," NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore

"They come to us without a word," U.S. Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
"Joan Jonas: Selected Films and Videos, 1972-2005," MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Light Time Tales," Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

"Joan Jonas year long program," CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
"Light Time Tales," HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
"Joan Jonas: Mirror Check, 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition," Messe Basel, Basel
"Joan Jonas: It blew right in my ear like the wind," CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan

"Reanimation," Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome
"Reanimation," Yvon Lambert, Paris
"Masks, Dolls and Baskets," Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
"Reanimation," WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo
"They came to us without a word," CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan

"Lunar Rabbit," Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"My New Theatre: Reading Dante III," MIT Media Lab Complex Lobby, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Volcano Saga & Drawing Languages," Wilkinson Gallery, London
"Broken Symmetry," Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
"Joan Jonas: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel Of Things," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
"Reading Dante III," Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

"Double Lunar Rabbits," Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
"Reading Dante IV," Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
"Joan Jonas: Reading Dante IV," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Joan Jonas," Galleria Alessandro Bonomo, Rome
"Reading Dante III," Yvon Lambert, New York
"Reading Dante III," Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Drawings/ Video/ Performance," Location One, New York

"Begin Again," Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
"Joan Jonas: From “My New Theatre” Series," Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
"Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas," The Museum of Modern Art, New York

"Drawings and Videos," Wako Works Arts, Tokyo
"Infernal Paradise," Wilkinson Gallery, London
"Joan Jonas: Reading Culture through Dante and Aby Warburg," REDCAT, Los Angeles

"Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room," Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain travels to Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genèva, Switzerland
"My Theater," Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Joan Jonas," westlondonprojects, London
"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, My New Theater VI and Other Things," Yvon Lambert, New York
"Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of the Things," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California

"Scenes from the Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004/2006 II," Rosmund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Scenes from the Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004/2006 I," Yvon Lambert, Paris
"Reflexion - A Variation on Mirror Pieces 1 and 2," 1968 - 2004, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
"Joan Jonas: Two Works," Castella di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

"Joan Jonas: Survey 1968-2005," Le Plateau and Jeu de Paume/Hotel de Sully, Paris
"Part I: Lines in the Sand, Part II: Recent Drawings," Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
"Moving in Place 1976-2000," Yvon Lambert, New York
"My New Theatre V," Yvon Lambert, Paris

"Joan Jonas: Five Works," Queens Museum of Art, New York
"Lines in the Sand," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
"Mirror Works 1969 – 2004," Wilkinson Gallery, London
"Lines in the Sand; The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
"Joan Jonas: Lines in the Sand; The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Illinois

"Retrospective: Five Works," Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
"Video Retrospective," Museum Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
"Lines in the Sand," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Lines in the Sand," Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico

"Performance, Video, Installation 1968-2000," NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

"In the Shadow a Shadow, Moving with No Pattern," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Performance, Video, Installation 1968-2000, A Retrospective," Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany
"Drawings," Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
"Film and Video Work, 1968-76," DIA Center for the Arts, New York
"This Earth is a Flower," International Artists' Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland

"Moving with No Pattern, My New Theatre III, In the Shadow a Shadow and drawings," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

"Songdelay and New Work, My New Theater II, Big Mirror," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
"Props: Works 1994 - 1997, My New Theatre I, drawings and photographs," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

"Revolted by the thought of known places_Sweeney Astray, (in conjunction with Works 1968-1994, A Retrospective)," Stedelijk Museum, Westergasfabrik Holland Festival, Amsterdam

"Joan Jonas: He Saw her Burning," DAAD-Galerie, Berlin

"Upside Down and Backwards," Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
"Upside Down and Backwards," PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, New York
"'60/'80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

"Other Realities Installations for Performance," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas

"Upside Down and Backwards," Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
"Music, Sound, Language Theater- John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Barry, Joan Jonas: Etchings from Crown Point Press," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Performances/Video/ Installations," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California

"The Juniper Tree," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"Upside Down and Backwards," Sonnabend Gallery, New York

"Drawing Room," School of Visual Arts, New York
"Three Tales," Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany

"Stage Sets," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Organic Honey's Vertical Roll for Aspects de l’art actuel présentés par la Galérie Sonnabend," Musée Galliéra, Paris

“To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection," BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
“Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood," Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
“DAUWRAUW | A Bruegelian Landscape,” Ter Dilft Cultural Center, Bornem, Belgium
“The Atlantic Ocean,” Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sandvika, Norway
"2024 Diriyah Biennale," showing Reanimation, Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia

"Glitch. Die Kunst der Störung," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
"Joan Jonas", Gallerie d’Italia - Artissima, Torino, showing Stream or River Flight or Pattern
"Joan Jonas x Maria Paz," Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal (two-person exhibition)
(showing Rivers to the Abyssal Plain)
"Unbound: Performance as Rupture," Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
“Drawing in Circles WHY?,” Danspace Project in partnership with Castelli Gallery, New York

“Real Corporeal,” curated by Ben Broome, 439 West 127th Street, New York
"at dawn," JSC Berlin, Germany
"Maja Hoffmann / LUMA Foundation Collection: The Imperament Display II," LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
"L’altro, lo stesso – The other, the same," ZAC Zisa Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
"Joan Jonas," Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India

"Exodus and Communal Life," Sabtini Building, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Aquaria," The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
“The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale,” Shanghai, China

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
"Spheres, Skulls and Other Icons of the Interior," Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada
"Mercer Street," Fergus McCaffrey, New York
"The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance," Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

"Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?," Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
"Bethlehem Hospital," Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
"Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)," Lévy Gorvy, New York
"The Unexpected Subject. 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy," FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
"The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Jubilation Inflation," Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Nevada, Las Vegas
"Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today," National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2994)," Hessel Museum of Art, Hudson, NY

"The Long Run," MoMA, New York
"Sequences VII," Reykjavik, Iceland

"Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures, New York City 1967-1977," Galerie Buchholz, New York
"Enacting Stillness," The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York
"Yes, but is it performable? Investigations on the Performative Paradox," Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
"Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965-2015," Braod Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan

"DO DISTURB," Palais de Tokyo, Paris
"15 rooms," Long Museum West Bund, Xuhui District, Shanghai
"The Great Mother," Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
"In the Trees," Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
"Painting 2.0: Expressions in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"Rumors of the Meteor," Frac Lorraine, Metz, France (forthcoming)
"Theatrical Fields – Critical Strategies in Performance, Film and Video," Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
"Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane," Stroum Gallery
"do it Moscow," Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
"Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton," Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
"Drowning and Swallowing This Text," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
"Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1962," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Lens-Based Sculpture," Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Germany
"The Great Acceleration," Taipei Biennial, Taipei

Performa 13 Biennial, New York
"Volcano Saga, Pioneer Voices," Arts Festival of North Norway, Harstad, Norway
"Dark Paradise," The Clocktower Gallery, New York
"In Situ," Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan

"Where Language Stops," Wilkinson Gallery, London
"Live your question now," Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
"Manchester International Festival: 11 Rooms," Manchester, United Kingdom
"112 Greene Street: A Nexus of Ideas in the Early 70’s," Salomon Contemporary, New York

documenta XIII, Kassel, Germany

"Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance," The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

"Number Three: Here and Now," Julia Stoschek Collection, with Andrea Fraser, Sharon Hayes, Jérôme Bel, John Bock, Christian Jankowski, Dara Friedman, Keren Cytter, Dusseldorf, Germany

Venice Biennale, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
"Time as Matter: MACBA Collection New Acquisitions," Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

28th Sao Paulo Biennial: In Living Contact, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Yokohama Biennial: Time Crevasse, Yokohama, Japan
"Video Installation of Vertical Roll (1972)," CUBITT Gallery, London
"Once Upon a Time (in collaboration with Markus Schob & Hans Widmer)," Yvon Lambert, Paris
"The 2008 Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn," Sydney, Australia
"Versus/Inversus," Galeria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
"To Burn Oneself with Oneself: the Romantic Damage Show," de Appel, Amsterdam
2007/2009
"Stop, Look, Listen: An Exhibition of Video Work," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2007/2008
"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Connie Butler, Los Angeles at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles; National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Washington, DC; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York
12th Biennial of the Moving Image, Centre pour lʼimage contemporaine, St-Gervais, Switzerland
2006/2007
"The Invisible Show," MARCO, Museum for Contemporary Art Vigo, and Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada; The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

"The Power of Women, curated by Luca Beatrice, Caroline Bourgeois, Francesca Pasini," Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Concetto Corpo e Sogno, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev," Castello di Rivolli, Turin, Italy
"Ombra, curated by Lea Vergine," Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
"Primera Generacion: Arte e imagen en movimiento (1963 - 1986)," curated by Berta Sichel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

"The Forest: Poitics, Poetics and Practice," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
"Marking Time," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
"After the Act," curated by Barbara Lausen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
"Grey Flag," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

"Marking Time," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
"After the Act," curated by Barbara Lausen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

"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," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

"Lines in the Sand," documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
"Gloria," White Columns, New York
"In the Shadow a Shadow," Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
"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, Germany

"Into the Light, Projection / Interaction: The Projected and Interactive Image in American Art,1964-1978," Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York

"Century Cities," Tate Modern, London
"Video / Performance: Open Ends," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Glass Puzzle and In the Shadow A Shadow for Electronic Images: Videokunst 1965 –2000," Villa Merkel /Bahnwaterhaus, Esslingen, Germany
"Moving with no Pattern for Escape." Media City Seoul, Seoul, Korea

"The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000. Part II: 1950-2000," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Circa 1968," Museo de Arte Contemporânea, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
"In the Shadow a Shadow," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
"The Hundredth Turn," Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York

"Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object, 1949-1979," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MAK Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

"World Wide Video Festival," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

"Be Specific," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
"Woman in the Well," Christine Rose Gallery, Los Angeles

"Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

"Volcano Saga (Installation)," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Biennial de Lyon, Lyon, France

"The First Generation: Woman and Video: 1970-1975," organized by Independent Curators International

"Eye for I: Video Self-Portraits," organized by Independent Curators International

"The First Generation: Women and Video: 1970-1975," organized by Independent Curators International, traveled 1986-1988
"Video Transformations," organized by Independent Curators International, traveled 1986-1988

"Collaborations and Amplifications," organized by Independent Curators International, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

"The Sense of Self: From Portrait to Autobiography," organized by Independent Curators International, Neuberger Museum at Purchase, Purchase, New York, traveled 1978-1980

“Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2024)," Getty Center, Pacific Palisades, CA
“Joan Jonas: Mirror Piece I & II,” MoMA, New York, NY
“Mirror Piece I and II," Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth Festival, Australia

"Moving Off the Land," The Stedelijk, Amsterdam

"Moving Off the Land," Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

"Reanimation," Rohm Theater, Kyoto, Japan, organized by the Inamori Foundation
"Mirror Check (1970)," Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
"Mirror Piece I & II: Reconstruction (1969, 2018-19)," Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
"Moving Off the Land, Ocean Space," Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Venice, Italy
"Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969, 2018-19)," Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
"Moving Off the Land. Oceans - Sketches and Notes," Fort Mason, San Francisco, California

"Mirror Piece II," Tate Modern, London
"Mirage," Tate Modern, London
"Moving Off the Land. Oceans - Sketches and Notes," Danspace Project, New York
"Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes," Tate Modern, London
"Lecture Performance with Jason Moran," Tate Modern, London

"Moving Off the Land. Oceans - Sketches and Notes," Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Vienna
"Moving Off the Land. Oceans - Sketches and Notes," Sequences Festival, Reyjkavik, Iceland
Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

"Reanimation," Art Night, ICA, Southwark Cathedral, London
"Moving Off the Land. Oceans - Sketches and Notes," Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
"They come to us without a word II," The Kitchen, New York

"They come to us without a word II," La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

"Reanimation," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
"Reanimation," Louvre Museum, Paris
"Reanimation," Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

"Reanimation," part of Performa 13, Roulette, New York
"Reanimation," Umeå Jazzfestival. Umeå, Sweden, 25 October
"Draw without looking," BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, Tate Modern, 28 February, London

"Reanimation," Kaskade Cinema, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," The University of Texas at Austin, Texas

"Mirror Pieces I: Reconfigured," The Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009
"Reading Dante II," The Performing Garage, New York
"Reading Dante," The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

"Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room," Museu dʼArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
"The Hand Reverts to its Own Movement," Spazio San Francesco, Fondazione Antoni Ratti, Como, Italy
"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York
"Crossed Waves," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

"Crossed Waves," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York

"Lines in the Sand," The Kitchen, New York
"Lines in the Sand," Tate Modern, London

"Lines in the Sand," Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
"Crossed Waves," The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
"Lines in the Sand," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
"Crossed Waves," Queens Museum, New York

"Lines in the Sand," Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
"Cineme Verite," TRANS>area, New York

"Circular Revisions (Video performance in conjunction with Performance Video Installation 1968-2000, A Retrospective)," Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany

"Construction in Process VIII 2000: This Earth is a Flower," International Artists' Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland

"In the Shadow A Shadow, for Were You There?," Hertogenbosch Festival, the Netherlands

"Tangle," Performance Festival, Los Angeles
"If You Could Remember, It Would Be Simple Things," Witte De Witte, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
"The Turn of the Screw for The Object of Time," Rheinstahlhalle, Stuttgart, Germany

"Narcissus and Echo (collaboration with Paul Miller /DJ Spooky)," World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam

"Revolted by the thought of known places_Sweeney Astray, (in conjunction with Work 1968-1994, A Retrospective)," Stedelijk Museum, Westergasfabrik Holland Festival, Amsterdam

"Variations on a Scene," Podvil Berlin; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Variations on a Scene," Centre d'art contemporain de Vassiviere-en-Limousin, Lac de Vassiviere, France

"Variations on a Scene," Wave Hill, Bronx, New York

"Variations on a Scene," Wave Hill, Bronx, New York

"Volcano Saga," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Performing Garage, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Winnipeg, Canada

"Volcano Saga," Schouwburg, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

"Volcano Saga," De Appel, Amsterdam

"He Saw Her Burning," DAAD-Galerie, Berlin

"He Saw Her Burning," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; La Zattera di Babele, Genzzano, Italy

"Woman on Fire," Kino Arsenal, Berlin
"Double Lunar Dogs," Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany; Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California; La Zattera di Babele, Genzzano, Italy
"He Saw Her Burning," Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD West Berlin, Germany; Progetto Genzanno, Italy
"Upside Down and Backwards, (In conjunction with 60/'80 Attitudes, Concepts, Images)," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 4th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney

"Double Lunar Dogs," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; Il Gergo Inquieto, Teatro Falcone, Genoa, Italy; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; The Performing Garage, New York
"Upside Down and Backwards," Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada; Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

"Retrospective: Performances/Video/ Installations, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, Funnel-Mirage, Upside Down and Backwards, Double Lunar Dogs," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
"Vignettes from 4 works," Guggenheim Museum, New York

"The Juniper Tree," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Upside Down and Backwards," De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Performing Garage, New York; Performing Garage, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

"The Juniper Tree," Franklin Furnace, New York; Joan Jonas's Mercer Street loft, New York; Internationales Performance Festival, Österreichischer Kunstverein, Vienna

"Three Tales," Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
"Mirage," Vanguard Theater, Los Angeles; Salle Patino, Geneva, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; India/America Festival di Musica e Danza, Rome
"The Juniper Tree," The Kitchen, New York; St. Mark's Church, New York

"Stage Sets," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mirage (Video performance), Anthology Film Archives, New York
"The Juniper Tree," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Native Dance, Twilight," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Akademie der Künste, Berlin

"Twilight," Anthology Film Archives, New York; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Native Dance, And/Or, Seattle, Washington

"Organic Honey's Vertical Roll," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Contemporanea, Rome
"Funnel," Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; The Kitchen, New York; Project ‘74, Kunsthalle Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Crepusculo," English Garden beside the tower of Santo Spirito, Florence, Italy

"Organic Honey's Vertical Roll," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy

"Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy," Lo Giudice Gallery, New York, New York; Festival di Musica e Danza, Rome
"Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll," Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
"Delay, Delay," Lower West Side, New York
"Delay, Delay," for Festival di Musica e Danza, Rome
"Organic Honeyʼs Vertical Roll," for Festival di Musica e Danza, Rome

"Choreomania, Joan Jonas's Grand Street loft," New York; Loeb Student Center, New York
University
"Night Piece, (variation of Jones Beach Piece)," University of California, Irvine, California
"Nova Scotia Beach Dance," Inverness, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Underneath, Alan Saret's Spring Street loft, New York
"Mirror Piece II, Mirror Check," Emanu-El, YMHA, New York; University of California, Irvine, California
"Jones Beach Piece," Jones Beach, Long Island, New York

"Mirror Piece I," Loeb Student Center, New York University; 10 Downtown, Gilles Larraine's loft, New York; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

"Oud Lau," St. Peter's Church, New York
"Choreoconcerts Experimental Workshops," St. Peter's Gymnasium, New York

"Beautiful Dog," 21:40 minutes, color
2007/2008/2010
"Reading Dante I/II/III," color

"Begin Again," 10 minutes 12 seconds, color

"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things," 57 minutes, color
2004/2005
"Melancholia," 5 minutes, color
2002/2005
"Lines in the Sand," 47:45 minutes, color
1976/1994/2005
"Mirage," 31 minutes, b/w, silent

"Mirror Improvisations," 6 minutes 35 seconds, color
"Wolf Lights," 2 minutes 49 seconds, color
1976/2000
"Mirage II"

"Volcano Saga," 28 minutes, color

"Brooklyn Bridge," 12 minutes, color

"Big Market," 24 minutes, color

"He Saw Her Burning," 20 minutes, color
"Double Lunar Dogs," 25 minutes, color

"Upside Down and Backwards," 29:03 minutes, color

"I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)," 28 minutes, color

"Good Night, Good Morning," 11 minutes, b/w
"May Windows," 12 minutes, b/w
"Car Tape," b/w

"Glass Puzzle," 26 minutes, b/w, color
"Merlo," 16 minutes, b/w
"Disturbances," 11 minutes, b/w

"Two Women," 20 minutes, b/w, silent
"Barking," 3 minutes, b/w
"Three Returns," 12 minutes, b/w
"Songdelay," Film 18 minutes

"Left Side Right Side," 7 minutes, b/w
"Duet," 4 minutes, b/w
"Vertical Roll," 20 minutes, b/w

"Mirror Check," 6 minutes, b/w, silent
"Paul Revere (with Richard Serra)," 9 minutes
"Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy," 23 minutes, b/w

"Wind," Film, 5 minutes, silent

"Joan Jonas: Mirror Piece I & II,” MoMA, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
“Joan Jonas: Out Takes,” MoMA, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, New York, NY

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Mystic Knots, Tate Modern, London United Kingdom

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California

Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

doctumenta 13, Karlsaue Park/Kaskade Cinema, Kassel, Germany
Anthology Film Archives, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater, CalArts Downtown, Los Angeles

The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Dia Center for the Arts, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Galerie Tug, New York; Lamarre, Paris

Videotheque de Paris, France

De Appel, Amsterdam
Festival Électronique, Rennes, France

documenta 8, Kassel, Germany

Ars 83, Ateneum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Australian National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Anthology Film Archives, New York
Arsenal, Berlin

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
4th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
P.S.1, New York
Bonini Editore, Genoa, Italy
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Tokyo Film Festival, Tokyo
US Film and Video Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Guggenheim Museum, New York
American Center, Paris
Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California

Videowochen, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Kansas
Video Roma, Rome
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
Rolg Ricke Galerie, Cologne, Germany
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Television Belge, Brussels
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

The Kitchen, New York
Frauenkunst-Neue Tendenzen, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria
documenta 6, Kassel, Germany

Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
Oberlin Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh

The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London
Woman Space, Los Angeles
Berlin International Filmforum, Berlin
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Centro Di, Florence, Italy
Galerie Impact, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art Now Œ74, Washington, DC
Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil

And/Or, Seattle, Washington
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

Sequences Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon, 2016
American Film Institute, Maya Deren Award for Video
Anonymous Was A Woman award, 1998
Artist in Residence Grant, TV Workshop, WXXI-TV, Rochester, New York, 1980
Artist in Residence Grant, TV Lab at WNET/13, New York
Artist-S TV Lab at WNET/13, New York
CAPS Award, 1971, 1974
THE CAT Fund
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
The Guggenheim Foundation
Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art prize; Tokyo
Japan International Video Art Festival
MIT Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize
National Endowment for the Arts
Polaroid Award for Video
The Rockefeller Foundation
Television Workshop at WXXI, Rochester, New York
Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy