Nam June Paik Art Center is pleased to invite you to the award ceremony for the 2024 Nam June Paik Prize. The aim of the prize is to activate the contemporary significance of Paik’s art by honoring artists who have promoted understanding and contributed to world peace through their tireless artistic practice. This year’s recipient is Joan Jonas, a world-renowned artist who has played a key role in shaping video and performance art. Her work from the 1960s to the present day, which ranges from video and performance to sculpture and installation, demonstrates the power of art to expand thought. Please join us as we share works of Joan Jonas and celebrate her receipt of the Nam June Paik Prize 2024.

Recipient: Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas' experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.

Jonas has exhibited, screened and performed her work at museums, galleries and large-scale group exhibitions throughout the world, such as: Documenta 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13; the 28th Sao Paolo Biennale; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York; United States Pavilion for the 56th Edition of the Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London; Museu Serralves, Porto; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Dia Beacon; and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. Jonas has recently been the subject of a retrospective solo show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.