FOLKERT DE JONG

Born in 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam


Education

2004
ISCP International Studio and Cultural Program New York, USA


Solo Exhibitions

2016 
And Nothing But The Truth,, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2015 
Court of Justice, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hominid Lands, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Actus Tragicus, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2014 
Hominid Lands, Musee d’Evreux, Evreux, France
The Holy Land, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom
The Primacy of Matter over Thought, Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
Desengano, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain

2013 
Amabilis Insania/The Pleasing Delusion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Actus Tragicus, Mudam Modern Art Museum, Luxembourg
Operation Harmony, Portland Art Museum, USA

2012 
The Bull’s Eye, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Immortals, Galerie Dukan Hourdequin, Paris, France
Act of Dispair, André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
The Immortals, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

2011
Operation Harmony, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
The Man from Delft, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Balance, Musas Museo De Arte De Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico
Folkert de Jong, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Brand New Gallery with Fendry Ekel, Milan, Italy

2010 
The Balance Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2009 
Mirror and The Cross, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
The Shooting, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA

2008 
1000 Years Business As Usual, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Der Falsche Prophet, Peres Projects Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

2006 
In God We Trust, Lever House Lobby Gallery, New York, USA
Gott Mit Uns, Kunsthalle Winterhur, Switzerland

2005
Golden Dawn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
Shoot The Freak, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Medusa's First Move: The Council, Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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

2016
Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Korea
Sonsbeek 2016, Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Summer Exhibition The Fields Sculpture Parc, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York, USA
In The Deep of the Surface, curated by Andrea Carpita at Fabrica Orobia 15, Milan, Italy
Once in a Lifetime, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Glass Forever, Dordtyart, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2015
Full House, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
After Picasso : 80 contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Sculpture in the City, London, United Kingdom
Beastly Beauty, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
In Search of Meaning, The Human Image in Global Perspective, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Manifesten, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen N-H, The Netherlands
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2014
Dramedy, Fort Worth Contemporary Sculpture, Forth Worth, Texas, USA
The Body Methonyc : International Contemporary Sculpture, Oakland University Art, Oakland, California, USA
Music Palace, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
Ingewikkelde Beelden, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
Post Picasso, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain

2013
Wonder : De Magie van Kunstenaarsdorp Bergen, Kranenburgh Culturele Buitenplaats, Bergen N-H, The Netherlands
De Anotomische Les, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
Oranje, Schlifka - Molina Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
CODA Black, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Beyond Tradition, Garage Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ArtZuid 2013, International Sculpture Route Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Glorious Rise and Fall…. (and so on) part 1 and 2, curated by Marjan Teeuwen, KW14, ‘sHertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2011 
Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art with a Master Class from Goya, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Luis Adelantado Gallery Mexico City, Mexico

2010 
Blue Devil with Remy Jungerman Metis-NL Gallery Amsterdam
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art SMAK Gent, Belgium
Folkert de Jong & Remy Jungerman Metis-NL Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monumental: Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art New York, USA
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, Connecticut, USA
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, Rhode Island, USA
Double Diplomacy, with Fendry Ekel, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Against Nature, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia

2007
MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
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, USA
Chronic, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA; travelling to Museum Dhont Dhaenens,Deurle, Belgium

2006
Extimate, Poetry Summer 2006, Watou, Belgium
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2006
I Love My Scene, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Long Live Sculpture!, Museum Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Reverence, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
Sculptures 2006, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle, Netherlands

2005 
Gods & Monsters: Folkert de Jong, John Kleckner and Andrew Mania, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2004
The Dark Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, United Kingdom
The Eternal Body, Galleria Villa de Massimo/KNIR, Rome, Italy
Open Studios, ISCP, New York, USA

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, Den Haag,
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

2005
Den Haag Sculpture ‘Orange Award’

2004
"Orpheus in de Vleeshal", BN-De Stem, April 11

2003
RAI Art Fair Prize Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prix de Rome, Sculpture

2002
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, USA

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, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

The Plancius Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom

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