This list of artworks by Joan Jonas is chronological by year of completion, and alphabetical within each year. It includes performance, video, and installation works and is up-to-date as of December 2020. This chronology is based on “Chronology of Works” in In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 521–29. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
1967
Joan Jonas, 1967, first real piece for workshop, 1967. Workshop performance. Trisha Brown workshop, New York.
Joan Jonas, Untitled piece, 1967. Workshop performance. Trisha Brown workshop, New York.
1968
Joan Jonas, Oad Lau, 1968. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Wind, 1968. 16mm film. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
1969
Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I, 1969. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Nudes with Mirrors, 1969. Improvisation.
Joan Jonas, Nudes with Mirrors, 1969. Super 8 film.
1970
Joan Jonas, Jones Beach Piece, 1970. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Check, 1970. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece II, 1970. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Underneath, 1970. Performance.
1971
Joan Jonas, Choreomania, 1971. Performance with slide projections.
Joan Jonas, Hill, 1971. Outdoor improvisation.
Joan Jonas, Night Piece, 1971. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Nova Scotia Beach Dance, 1971. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Paul Revere, 1971. 16mm film, collaboration with Richard Serra.
1972
Joan Jonas, Delay Delay, 1972. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Delay Delay (Rome version), 1972. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Duet, 1972. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Left Side Right Side, 1972. Video. Distributed by Electronic Ars Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1972. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 1972. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 1972. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, 1972. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
1973
Joan Jonas, Barking, 1973. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Songdelay, 1973. 16mm film. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Three Returns, 1973. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Two Women, 1973. Video.
1974
Joan Jonas, Crepusculo, 1974. Outdoor performance.
Joan Jonas, Disturbances, 1974. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Funnel, 1974. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Glass Puzzle, 1974. Color-edited version, DVD.
Joan Jonas, Glass Puzzle, 1974. Unedited color footage.
Joan Jonas, Glass Puzzle, 1974. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Merlo, 1974. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Check, c. 1973–74. 16mm film transferred to video.
Joan Jonas, Tunnel, 1974. Video performance.
1975
Joan Jonas, Native Dance, 1975. Performance with video and film.
Joan Jonas, Twilight, 1975. Performance with video and film.
Joan Jonas, Untitled film, c. 1974–75. Scenes shot off a video monitor with a vertical roll; whereabouts unknown.
1976
Joan Jonas, Car Tape, 1976. Video.
Joan Jonas, Cones/May Windows, 1976. Multimedia installation. 112 Greene Street, New York.
Joan Jonas, Good Night Good Morning, 1976. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, I Want to Live in the Country (and Other Romances), 1976. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree (children’s version), 1976. Performance.
Joan Jonas, May Windows, 1976. Video.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976. Film transferred to video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976. Performance with film projections and pre-recorded video.
Joan Jonas, Mirage (Drawing Film), 1976. Film.
Joan Jonas, Night Windows, 1976. Video.
Joan Jonas, Stage Sets, 1976. Multimedia installation. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania.
Joan Jonas, Untitled documentation footage, 1976. Video. Wall Street, Manhattan, New York.
Joan Jonas, Untitled stockhouse footage of an erupting volcano (later titled Volcano Film), 1976. 16mm film.
Joan Jonas, Untitled fragments of a 16mm film (later titled Mirage or Mirage I), 1976. 16mm film.
Joan Jonas, Untitled improvisation (after Mirage), 1976. Performance improvisation, collaboration with James Nares.
Joan Jonas, Untitled footage of a country road, 1976. Video.
1977
Joan Jonas, Cape North, 1977. Super 8 film.
Joan Jonas, Drawing Room, 1977. Multimedia installation. School of Visual Arts, New York.
Joan Jonas, The Frog Prince, 1977. Super 8 film.
Joan Jonas, The Joshua Tree, 1977. Super 8 film.
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree (collaborative version), 1977. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Three Tales, 1977. Video installation. Documenta 6, Kassel.
1978
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree (solo version), 1978. Performance.
1979
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1973–79. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Untitled NASA film footage, n.d. Film transferred to video.
Joan Jonas, Upside Down and Backwards, 1979. Video performance.
1980
Joan Jonas, Double Lunar Dogs, 1980. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Upside Down and Backwards, 1980. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Solo Hits (vignettes from four works with incidental music by Jon Gibson), 1980. Performance. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
1982
Joan Jonas, He Saw Her Burning, 1982. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Upside Down and Backwards, 1982. Multimedia installation. Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Joan Jonas, Woman on Fire, 1982. Video performance/sketch.
1983
Joan Jonas, He Saw Her Burning, 1983. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, He Saw Her Burning, 1983. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
1984
Joan Jonas, Big Market, 1984. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Big Market, 1984. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Double Lunar Dogs, 1984. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
1985
Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1985. Performance with film and video.
1986
Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1986. Performance footage. San Francisco Art Institute, California.
1988
Joan Jonas, The Anchor Stone, 1988. Audio.
Joan Jonas, Brooklyn Bridge, 1988. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Brooklyn Bridge, 1988. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Brooklyn Bridge, 1988. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Iceland Naples Express (Icelandic and Neapolitan Volcano Sagas), 1985/1988. Video installation.
1989
Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1985–89. Video. Distributed with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
1990
Joan Jonas, Variations on a Scene, 1990. Outdoor performance.
1992
Joan Jonas, Revolted by the thought of known places…, 1992. Video performance/improvisation.
Joan Jonas, Revolted by the thought of known places…,1992. Multimedia installation.
1994
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree, 1976/1994. Multimedia installation. Collection Tate, London.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976/1994. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Pieces and Outdoor Pieces, 1968/1994. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy/Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1972/1994. Multimedia installation. Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Joan Jonas, Revolted by the thought of known places…Sweeney Astray, 1994. Multimedia installation. Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Joan Jonas, Revolted by the thought of known places…Sweeney Astray, 1994. Theater piece/video performance.
Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1985/1994. Multimedia installation.
1996
Joan Jonas, Woman in the Well, 1996. Multimedia installation.
1997
Joan Jonas, My New Theater or My New Theater I, 1997. Video sculpture. Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater I: Tap Dancing (also known as My New Theater and My New Theater I), 1997. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, Narcissus and Echo, 1997. Video performance, collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul Miller).
1998
Joan Jonas, If I Could Remember It Would Be Simple Things, 1998. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Moving with No Pattern, 1998. Improvisation.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater II: Big Mirror, 1998. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, Tangle, 1998. Performance.
Joan Jonas, The Turn of the Screw, 1998. Video performance.
1999
Joan Jonas, In the Shadow a Shadow, 1999. A rehearsal.
Joan Jonas, In the Shadow of a Shadow, 1999. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Moving with No Pattern, 1999. Video installation.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater III: In the Shadow a Shadow, 1999. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1973–99. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
2000
Joan Jonas, Glass Puzzle, 1974/2000. Multimedia installation. Collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid.
Joan Jonas, In the Shadow of a Shadow, 2000. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976/2000. Dual video projection.
Joan Jonas, Mirage II, 1976/2000. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Moving with No Pattern, 1999/2000. Video installation.
Joan Jonas, Woman in the Well II, 1996/2000. Multimedia installation.
2001
Joan Jonas, Circular Revisions, 2001. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976/2001. Installation with film and video. Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Joan Jonas, Passageways, n.d. Video.
2002
Joan Jonas, Blackboard Drawings, 2002. Video.
Joan Jonas, Lines in the Sand, 2002. Multimedia installation. Collection MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona.
Joan Jonas, Lines in the Sand, 2002. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Montage Verié, 2002. Involved drawing performance, collaboration with Jeff Preiss.
Joan Jonas, Pillow Talk, 2002. Video.
2003
Joan Jonas, Crossed Waves: After a Long Train Ride, 2003. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Waltz, 2003. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
2004
Joan Jonas, Crossed Waves, 2004. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Melancholia, 2004. Video
Joan Jonas, Mirror Pieces, 1969/2004. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Room, 1968/1994/2004. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater IV: Dog Hoop, 2004. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, Reflexion-Eine Variation von Mirror Pieces I & II (Reflection-A Variation on Mirror Pieces I & II), 1968–2004. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004. Multimedia installation. Collection Dia Art Foundation, New York; Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Joan Jonas, Untitled [fence], 2004. Video.
Joan Jonas, Untitled [landscape], 2004. Video.
Joan Jonas, Untitled [portrait of a Hopi man], 2004. Video.
2005
Joan Jonas, Lines in the Sand, 2002/2005. Video. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Joan Jonas, Mirage, 1976/1994/2005. Multimedia installation. Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Improvisation, 2005. Video.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater V: Moving in Place (Dog Dance), 2002/2005. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2005. Performance video.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2005; also 2006. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, Wolf Lights, 2004–2005. Video.
2006
Joan Jonas, Begin Again (formally titled Sticks and Stones), 2006. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning’06, 2006. Video sculpture.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004/2006. Multimedia installation. Collection University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things II, 2004/2006. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2006. Performance video. Dia:Beacon, New York.
Joan Jonas, Sticks & Stones, 2006. Video sculpture.
2007
Joan Jonas, Crossed Waves, 2007. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, The Hand Reverts to its Own Movement, 2007. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, The Hand Reverts to its Own Movement, 2007. Video performance.
Joan Jonas, The Hand Reverts to its Own Movement/Reading Dante, 2007. First workshop performance.
2008
Joan Jonas, Infernal Paradise, 2008. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Orchard Street Reading, 2008. Video.
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante, 2008. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante, 2007/2008. Video performance.
2009
Joan Jonas, Future Lot, 2008–2009. Video
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante II, 2008/2009. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante II, 2008/2009. Video performance.
2010
Joan Jonas, Double Lunar Rabbits, 2010. Video installation.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Costume, 1968/2010. Performance.
Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I (Reconfigured), 1969/2010. Performance
Joan Jonas, Natural Phenomena, 2010. Performative demonstration with video of a work in progress.
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante III, 2008/2010. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante IV, 2008/2010. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Street Scene with Chalk, 1976/2008/2010. Video.
Joan Jonas, Under Glacier, 2010. Performative demonstration with video of a work in progress.
2011
Joan Jonas, Cones/May Windows, 1976/2011. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Glacier, 2010/2011. Video installation with wall drawings.
Joan Jonas, Reanimation (Under the Glacier in Bed), 2010/2011. Video installation with wall drawings. Art Parcours, Basel, Switzerland.
Joan Jonas, Reanimation, 2011. Performance with video of a work in progress with Jason Moran.
Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1985/1994/2011. Video installation.
2012
Joan Jonas, Lunar Rabbit, 2012. Multimedia installation. 2012 Armory Show, New York.
Joan Jonas, Reanimation, 2012. Video performance, music composed and played by Jason Moran.
Joan Jonas, Reanimation (In a Meadow), 2012. Multimedia installation within a pre-fab garden structure; music by Ande Somby.
2014
Joan Jonas, After Mirage (formally titled Cones/May Windows), 1976/2014. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Beautiful Dog, 2014. Video.
2015
Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word, 2015. Multimedia installation. U.S. Pavilion, Venice Biennale.
Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word II, 2015. Video performance with music composed and played by Jason Moran.
2016
Joan Jonas, stream or river, flight or pattern, 2016. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land, 2016-ongoing. Lecture-performance. Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India.
2017
Joan Jonas, stream or river, flight or pattern III, 2017. Multimedia installation.
2018
Joan Jonas, Stage Sets, 1976/2018. Multimedia installation. Collection Dia Art Foundation, New York.
2019
Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land II, 2019. Multimedia installation.
Joan Jonas, Funnel, 1974/2019. Multimedia installation. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.