Jesse Bonnell

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.

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-

• Dionysia Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center