Jon Kinzel maintains a deeply interrelated choreographic and visual art practice. His solo and ensemble work is made up of set and improvised material. He has explored a variety of time-based media, urban life, social constructs, partnering, graphic mark making with a loose connection to imagery, and ways for the artifice of fiction to meet an experimental memoir. He feels fortunate to have performed and collaborated across disciplines with numerous artists: currently, with Vicky Shick. He has served as a sound designer, movement dramaturg, and curator, and, he has taught at several universities, conservatories, festivals, and schools throughout NYC and the greater metropolitan area. A series of works—Queens Terminus, The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY (2022); Pacific Terminus, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA (2019); and Atlantic Terminus, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2016)—brought together his drawings and paintings, video, sculpture, and dance forms, addressing technology’s effects on visual culture, social relationships, performance, haptic interaction, and the presentation of the moving body. He is the recipient of a NYSCA – Interdisciplinary (2025), MacDowell Fellowships – Interdisciplinary (2024, 2020), and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Choreography (2023).
