FOLKERT DE JONG
Born 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Education
1998-2000
Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994-1996
Academy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Operation Harmony, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Brandnew Gallery, Milan, IT
2010
The Balance Luis Adelantado Gallery Mexico City 27 Nov
2009
Circle of Trust Selected Works 2001-2009, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
A Thousand Years of Business as Usual, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
"The Shooting" Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2008
Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2006
Gott Mit Uns, Kunsthalle Winterhur, Switzerland
2005
Golden Dawn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Medusa's First Move: The Council, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2004
Prix de Rome/Life's Illusions
Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
Meet me and Mister Beefy, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
2002
Marlin says, Playstation Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Meet me and Mister Beefy, USF Bergen, Norway
2001
The Iceman Cometh, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
The Ilemauzer, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
1999
De Verschijning, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions
2011
Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art with a Master Class from Goya, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO
Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Luis Adelantado Gallery Mexico City, Mexico
2010
Blue Devil with Remy Jungerman Metis-NL Gallery Amsterdam
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art SMAK Gent
Folkert de Jong & Remy Jungerman Metis-NL Gallery Amsterdam
Monumental: Contemporary Figurative Sculpture Herbert Johnson Museum of Art New York
A Love Story works from the Coleccion MEFIC, Palacio de Don Manuel Évora, Portugal __
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2009
Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Fendry Ekel, Remy Jungerman, Folkert de Jong: The Rhetoric of Doubt, curated by Astrid Honold, André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2008
Styrofoam, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Double Diplomacy, with Fendry Ekel, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Against Nature, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia
2007
MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Fractured Figure, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Destroy Athens, Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Chronic, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; travelling to Museum Dhont Dhaenens,Deurle, Belgium
2006
Extimate, Poetry Summer 2006, Watou, Belgium
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
I Love My Scene, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Long Live Sculpture!, Museum Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Reverence, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Sculptures 2006, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle, Netherlands
2005
Gods & Monsters: Folkert de Jong, John Kleckner and Andrew Mania, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
The Dark Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
The Eternal Body, Galleria Villa de Massimo/KNIR, Rome, Italy
Open Studios, ISCP, New York, NY
2003
Sea and Music Sculpture Manifest, Centre for European Art China, Xiamen, China
Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prix de Rome 2003, Museum for Contemporary Art GEM,
The Hague, The Netherlands
2002
Stroomversnelling,Groninger Museum, Groningen,
The Netherlands
Alien Workshop/The Centenarian, TENT, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Drawings, Playstation Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Proeftuin, Centre for Visual Arts, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Purchases 2002, Centre for Visual Arts, Dordrecht,
The Netherlands
Wishful Thinking, Public Space, Dresden, Germany
2001
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alien Workshop, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2000
Chemould Gallery, Bombay, India
1999
Open Studios Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
Open Studios, Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Performances
2004
The Eternal Body, or The Phantom Grave, with Delphine Courtillot, NIR, Rome, Italy
2003
Life's Illusions, Opening of the Prix de Rome Exhibition, Museum for Contemporary Art, GEM, The Hague,
The Netherlands
2002
The Centenarian, with Walter van Broekhuizen and Alexander Komarov, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Alien Workshop, with Walter van Broekhuizen and Alexander Komarov, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Honors and Awards
2004
"Orpheus in de Vleeshal", BN-De Stem, April 11
2003
RAI Art Fair Prize Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Prix de Rome, Sculpture
Charlotte Köhler Prize
Grants and Stipends
2003
Basisstipend, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands
2002
Projectsubsidy,Residency Norway, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts,
Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Basisstipend, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Residencies
2004
ISCP, New York, NY
2003
Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002
USF-Bergen, Norway
2001
Eric Philips Residencies, Montreuil, Paris, France
2000
RAIN-project, Bombay, India
Collections
Centre for Visual Arts, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Plancius Collection, Amsterdam
The Saatchi Collection, London
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