Jon Kinzel has maintained a fluid interdisciplinary practice for several decades. He has served as a curator, sound designer, and dramaturg, held residencies at NYLA, EMPAC, BAX, Gibney, The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow, and Telematic, and contributed to online and print publications such as SFMoMA, SCHIZM, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and the MR Performance Journal. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship has supported his interrelated choreographic and visual art practice.
Kinzel has received critical accolades for Responsible Ballet (2009), presented at La MaMa, and Responsible Ballet and What We Need Is a Bench to Put Books On (2010), a multigenerational ensemble piece presented at The Kitchen and completed with support from the Movement Research AIR program (2009-2011), and a Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship from the Baryshnikov Arts Center (2009-10). The Chocolate Factory presented his trio Someone Once Called Me A Sound Man (2013) – noted in ARTFORUM Best of 2013 – and Queens Terminus (2022), which paired a performance with an exhibition and was initiated during his 2020 MacDowell Fellowship.
While at MacDowell, he will focus on the production of numerous artworks that could be seen as an inexhaustible sequence with no arrival point, without finality, and movement for a set-design-meets-gallery-installation. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship has supported his interrelated choreographic and visual art practice.
At MacDowell in 2024, he produced drawings, paintings, and sculptures that could be seen as an inexhaustible sequence with no arrival point, without finality, and movement for a set-design-meets-gallery-installation; a show that he will have in summer 2025.
