Joan Jonas:
Good Night Good Morning

March 17 – July 6, 2024

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art presents Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, spanning more than 50 years of her remarkable career. On view in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions, the exhibition features a selection of works produced from 1968 through the present, including videos, drawings, photographs, and major installations and performances—many of which have been revisited and reconfigured by the artist on the occasion of this exhibition. Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning also presents extensive corresponding archival materials, an online video channel, and associated programs and screenings organized on the occasion of the exhibition.

Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning is organized by Ana Janevski, Curator, with Lilia Rocio Taboada and Gee Wesley, Curatorial Assistants, Department of Media and Performance. With thanks to Molly Superfine, Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow, and Brandon Eng and Piper Marshall, former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellows, Department of Media and Performance.

The exhibition is made possible by Hyundai Card.

Leadership support is provided by the Lonti Ebers Endowment for Performance, the Wallis Annenberg Director’s Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art, the Jill and Peter Kraus Endowed Fund for Contemporary Exhibitions, and by the Julie A. Zoppo Fund for the Exhibition of Women Artists.

Major funding is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

Additional support is provided by the Leontine S. and Cornell G. Ebers Endowment Fund.

Leadership funding for the publication is provided by the Perry and Nancy Lee Bass Publication Endowment Fund.

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Joan Jonas. Mirror Piece I. 1969. Performance, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Digital print (printed 2024), 9 3/4 × 15″ (24.8 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy the artist. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas. Delay Delay performance view, Lower West Side, New York. 1972. Digital print (printed 2024), 10 x 15″ (25.4 x 38.1 cm). Photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas posing for an unrealized poster for a performance of Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy at LoGiudice Gallery, New York 1972. Photograph: Richard Serra. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas. Mirage. 1976. University Art Museum(now UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), Berkeley, 1980. Performer: Joan Jonas. Assistant: Elsie Ritchie. Six videos (black and white, sound and silent; duration variable), props, stages, and photographs, dimensions variable. Photo: Benjamin Blackwell. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas. Moving Off the Land. 2016-2018. Presented by Danspace Project, New York, 2018. High-definition video (color, sound), 58:00 min. Photo by Ian Douglas/courtesy of Danspace Project. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas. Film still of Moving Off the Land II. 2019. High-definition video (color, sound), 58:00 min. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Joan Jonas, installation view of Reanimation. 2010/2012/2013. Four videos (color, sound and silent) on custom screens within a prefabricated house structure, two custom benches (made by Ed Gavagan), and crystal sculpture; two wooden theater boxes with video (color, sound and silent); fifteen ink drawings on paper; three oil stick drawings on paper, and two china marker wall drawings. Soundtrack and voice: Joan Jonas; Sami yoik singing: Ánde Somby; Piano and additional sound effects: Jason Moran. © Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York