Jonas Mekas
1922-2019
Born 1922, Lithuania
Died 2019, New York, NY
Installation view, Images Out of Darkness: Reminiscences of a Displaced Person, Postwar Germany 1945-1949, James Fuentes, New York, 2012.
Installation view, Images Out of Darkness: Reminiscences of a Displaced Person, Postwar Germany 1945-1949, James Fuentes, New York, 2012
Installation view, Images Out of Darkness: Reminiscences of a Displaced Person, Postwar Germany 1945-1949, James Fuentes, New York, 2012
Kassel/Mattenberg, the camp school/movie house/church..., 1948. Inkjet print. 17 x 22 inches
Sometimes we escaped into the fields, Kassel/Mattenberg D.P. Camp. Inkjet print. 22 x 17 inches
Kassel railroad station, waiting to be transported to another camp, 1948. Inkjet print. 17 x 22 inches
Waiting to be transported to another camp. Kassel/Mattenberg D.P. Camp. Inkjet print. 17 x 22 inches
With my new friends just after arriving in Wiesbaden D.P. Camp, 1945. Inkjet print. 17 x 22 inches
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CV (Selection)
Born 1922, Lithuania
Lives and works in New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Jonas Mekas – Personale, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, IT
2017
Again, Again It All Comes Back to Me in Brief Glimpses, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
(MMCA), Seoul
Jonas Mekas: Film in the Line of Fire, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk, New York
"I Sing I Celebrate," La Neomudéjar, Madrid
2016
Let Me Introduce Myself, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2015
All These Images, These Sounds, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Internet Saga Pavilion, Venice
Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
2014
Jonas Mekas: 365 Days, ZKM, Germany
Jonas Mekas: One Man Show, Cesis Art Festival, Latvia
2013
MUAC, Mexico City
The Sixties Quartet, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Austria
Retrospective @ CCBB in Sao Paulo, Brazil
I Lift My Glass of Wine to You, My Vienna Friends!, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Outlaw: New Works, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Let Me Introduce Myself, My Russian Friends!, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Jonas Mekas: In Praise of the Ordinary, The Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada
Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Life Goes On… I Keep Singing, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012
Serpentine Gallery, London
Film retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Reminiszenzen aus Deutchsland, Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany
Prisiminimai is Vokietijos, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Images Out of Darkness Reminiscences of a Displaced Person Postwar Germany 1945-1949, James
Fuentes, New York
2010
TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE, James Fuentes, New York
Two-Person Exhibitions
2017
Cinema Lituanien, La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris
2012
Jonas Mekas / Jose Luis Guerin – Cineastes en Correspondance, Musee Pompidou, Paris
Portraits: Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2017
Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
2016
The Velvet Underground - New York Extravaganza, Philarmonie de Paris, Paris
2012
The 365 Day Project, 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011
Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York
Musique Plastique, agnes b. Galerie, Paris and New York
This Side of Paradise, agnes b. rue du jour boutique, Paris
2010
Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
Illegal Living, 80 Wooster, New York
Inaugural Show, Microscope, New York
Eve of Fluxus, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
1989, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
See this Sound, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Commissions
2010
Work commissioned by the New York City Guggenheim Young Collectors Council
Catalogues and Books
2009
“A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends,” Galerie du Jour, Paris
2008
“Jonas Mekas,” Koenig Books, for the exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Jonas Mekas,” Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy [Italian]
2007
“The Avante-Garde from Futurism to Fluxus,” Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
Extended Essays and Interviews
2010
Northover, Benn, “Jonas Mekas,” AnOther Man, Autum/Winter
Lack, Hannah, “New York Stories,” Dazed and Confused, August
Rose, Aaron, “Jonas Mekas,” ANP Quarterly, January
2009
Haden-Guest, Anthony, “Dispatches from the Inside,” Art Newspaper, November
Kley, Elisabeth, “Jonas Mekas at James Fuentes,” Artinfo, November
Honors and Awards
2013
Commandeur de lʼOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania
Francis J. Greenburger Award
Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011
George Eastman Honorart Scholar Award
2010
Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruittʼs Art Awards
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News
Jonas Mekas Obituary on artnet
Jonas Mekas Obituary in The New York Times
Jonas Mekas's "Empire" in The Wall Street Journal
Jonas Mekas at MMCA Seoul, Korea (PDF↓)
Jonas Mekas in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Jonas Mekas in The Telegraph (PDF↓)
Jonas Mekas & Douglas Gordon in The New York Times
Jonas Mekas in The Art Newspaper
Jonas Mekas in The New York Times, November 2015
Jonas Mekas in Brooklyn Rail (PDF↓)
Jonas Mekas in The Art Newspaper (PDF↓)