JONNA MCKONE is a photographer, artist, and filmmaker based in Baltimore, MD. She works with documentary, archives, and abstraction to explore legacies of empire, the fragility of truth, and the land and body as vessels of memory. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including recent shows: first last light at Full Circle Gallery in Baltimore, MD; Slow Drift at VisArts in Rockville, MD, and Notes from Home at Powerplant Gallery in Durham, NC (a collaborative project made through a Center for Documentary Studies Fellowship). Her work as an artist and filmmaker has received support from The Maryland State Arts Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation, The Baker Awards for film and video, the Rubys Artist Project grant and the Puffin Foundation. She has been a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow as well as an artist in residence at Monson Arts’ Abbot-Watts Photography Residency, Platteforum, Full Circle Fine Art’s Analog Photography Residency, and Skidmore’s Storytellers Institute.
Alongside her studio practice, Jonna is a producer, researcher and story producer. She produced MARGIE SOUDEK’S SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS, which premiered at Sundance in 2023 and is now streaming on the New Yorker as well as the feature film ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE, which premiered at Sundance in 2021, where it won a Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. Before working in film, Jonna was a radio producer and reporter whose work has appeared on BCC, NPR, the New Yorker Radio Hour, WYPR, and WNYC.
Jonna has taught and developed graduate, undergraduate, workshops and community-based productions for Skidmore College, Johns Hopkins University, Radio Rookies, Appalshop, the Partnership for Appalachian Girls Education and in a Boston youth detention facility. These communities and a dedication to collaboration and the permeability of points of view deeply inform her artistic approach. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Duke’s MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts.
Work via Artspace: https://www.artspace.com/artist/jonna-mckone
For inquiries about commissions, purchasing work, producing and consulting, write to: jonnamckone[@]gmail.com