Observer Arts Interviews Artist Joan Jonas

Her 2024 retrospective at MoMA affirmed Jonas’s role as a foundational figure in video, performance and installation art.

A white-haired woman in a light shirt sits on a red patterned couch holding a fluffy white poodle in her lap, looking calmly at the camera.

In conversation with Observer’s Jasmine Lobe, Joan Jonas reflects on a career built on restlessness, reinvention and radical grace.

Observer Arts Interviews Artist Joan Jonas