Bonnie Han Jones

Discipline: Composing

Based In: Chicago, IL

Year at Millay: 2019

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Music, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Q-02, Brussels, Belgium (2018); Grant Recipient, Rubys Artist Project Grants, Great Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Baltimore, MD (2018); Grant Recipient, Grants to Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Prattsville Art Center & Residency, Prattsville, NY (2016); Artist-in-Residence, David Tudor Project, Mills College, Oakland, CA (2016); Artist-in-Residence, Hewnoaks, Lovell, ME (2016); Artist-in-Residence, hotelpupik, Scheifling, Austria (2014); Artist-in-Residence, Kunstmeile Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria (2014); Artist-in-Residence, Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm, Sweden (2014); Grant Recipient, Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2012); Grant Recipient, Meet the Composer, Global Connections Grant, Cha’ak’ab Paaxil, Merida, Mexico (2009); Artist-in-Residence, STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music), Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008); Grant Recipient, Meet the Composer, Global Connections Grant, Seoul, South Korea (2007); Fulbright Grantee to Seoul, South Korea, ETA, Fulbright US Student Program (2004).

Website: https://bonnie-jones.com/

Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence, Rhode Island on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narragansett.