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 from March 17 through July 6, 2024, 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.

“It’s been exciting to reconsider old and newer works as they relate in a new context. I am very happy to have the work on exhibition in New York, where I have lived most of my life,” said Jonas, who is working closely with the curatorial team.

Installation views of Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 17–July 6, 2024. Photos: Jonathan Dorado.

“This highly anticipated exhibition will give an overview of Jonas’s unique role as a trailblazing figure of video and performance and her enduring multimedia legacy for generations of younger artists. It will trace the development of Jonas’s career, from works made in the 1960s and 1970s exploring the confluence of technology and ritual to more recent ones dealing with ecology and the landscape,” said Janevski. “The exhibition also advances the Museum’s commitment to representing the work of key women artists whose practices have been deeply influential in the history of performance, media, and feminist art practices.”

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 Mitchell Herrmann, Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow, and Molly Superfine, Brandon Eng, and Piper Marshall, former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellows, Department of Media and Performance.

Images courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.