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Jesse Bonnell | |
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 Bonnell in 2019 | |
| Born | April 9, 1985 |
| Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
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| Website | http://www.jessebonnell.org |
Jesse Bonnell is an American artist whose work combines installation, video, photography, drawing and performance. He is a Creative Capital Award winning artist whose work has been hailed as "a profound experience" by the Los Angeles Times. 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.