Jesse Bonnell

Jesse Bonnell
Born	(1985-04-09) April 9, 1985 (age 40) Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Awards	2013 Creative Capital Performing Arts Award

Jesse Bonnell is an American artist whose work combines installation, video, photography, drawing and performance. Nationally, Bonnell's work has been exhibited at REDCAT, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, RADAR L.A., South Coast Repertory, Bootleg Theater, The Getty Villa, EMPAC, and other site-specific locations. ^[1] His project, Group Therapy, ^[2] was commissioned and presented at the Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA, in June 2018. From 2008 to 2018, Bonnell was the Artistic Director of Poor Dog Group, ^[3] a Los Angeles-based collective dedicated to contemporary performance. ^[4] His work germinates within visual art vocabularies, cinema, subverted theatrical idioms, non-hierarchical collaboration, and lab-like experimentation.

Bonnell graduated from the California Institute of the Arts ^[5] and has received support from Theater Communications Group, Foundation for Contemporary Art, United States Embassy Belgrade, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Center for Cultural Innovation, and a Cultural Exchange International Grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Creative Capital.

He has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, and other residencies at REDCAT, Yaddo, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Headlands Center for the Arts, Abrons Art Center, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. His work has been written about in the American Theater Magazine, Theater Magazine, Beautiful Savage Magazine, and Theater Journal. He has given talks about his work on collectivity at NYU Theater and Health Forum and CCA Annual Conference. He is a recurring guest lecturer at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Bonnell lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Performances

Works

2009-

• The Internationalists, The Grotowski Institute, South Coast Repertory Theater, *International Tour: The Student Centre (Zagreb), DHRenoma Mall/U.S.Artists Initiative hosted by The Grotowski Institute, (Poland) National Theatre (Pula, Croatia), National Theater (Belgrade,Valjevo,Uzice), Scradin International Theater, (Croatia)

2010-

• SatyrAtlas The Getty Villa Museum

2011-

• Brewsie and Willie RADAR LA

2012-

• Dionysia Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

2013-

• Murder Ballad REDCAT

2014-

• Five Small Fires Bootleg Theater

2016-

• Purgatorio LMCC

2018-

• Group Therapy CAP UCLA

2021-

• Flag Semaphores Una Boccata d’Arte / Castello San Basilio

2025-

• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol University of Rochester

References

1. "Jesse Bonnell - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
2. "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". www.creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
3. "splash". POOR DOG GROUP. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
4. Haithcoat, Rebecca (2012-03-29). "Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
5. "Pieter". www.pieterpasd.com. Retrieved 2016-11-09.