FOLKERT DE JONG / Biography

Folkert de Jong
Born in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam
2008 Founding of United Artist Productions Amsterdam with Fendry Ekel and Astrid Honold
1998 - 2000 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1994 - 1996 Academy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam
Solo exhibitions
2009 Folkert de Jong, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2008 Drawings, Office For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
James Cohan Gallery, Thousand Years Of Unfinished Bussines As Usual, Shanghai
2007 Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Peekskill, NY
Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Der Falsche Prophet, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006 Gott Mit Uns (In God We Trust), Lever House Lobby Gallery, New York
Gott Mit Uns, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
2005 Golden Dawn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Shoot The Freak, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
Medusa's First Move, The Council, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Group exhibitions (selected)
2008 Double Diplomacy, with Fendry Ekel, Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Assault, James Cohan Gallery New York
Double Diplomacy, with Fendry Ekel, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Against Nature, Galeria Luis Adelantado Valencia, Spain
2007 ‘Mask Show’, James Cohan Gallery New York
Chronic, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
‘All For Art’, Musée de beaux-arts de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
‘Fractured Figure’, Deste Foundation Athens
Seht der Mensch, The Shooting Lesson, 1st Athens Biennial,‘Destroy Athens’
‘Summer Show’, James Cohan Gallery New York
Chronic, Handmade Nightmares in Red, Yellow and Blue, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2006 The Shooting … At Watou; 1st of July 2006 ‘Extimate’, Poetry summer Watou, Belgium
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Long live sculpture!, Sculpture Museum Middelheim, Antwerpen
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Dark, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
I love my scene, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 HVCCA Benefit Auction, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
The Zine UnBound, YBCA, San Francisco
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Den Haag Sculptuur 2005, De Paleistuin, Den Haag
Gods and Monsters, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
Capoeira, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Awards
2005 Den Haag Sculpture ‘Orange Award’
2004 Thieme Art Award
2003 Prix de Rome, Sculpture
2002 Charlotte Köhler Prize
Residencies
2006 Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2004 ISCP International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York
2003 CEAC Chinese European Art Center Xiamen, China
Art fairs
2008 Shanghai Art Fair, James Cohan Gallery New York
Arte Roma, Galeria Luis Adelantado Valencia
Arco Madrid, Galeria Luis Adelantado Valencia
Arte Fiera Bologna, James Cohan Gallery New York
2007 Art Basel, James Cohan Gallery New York
The Armory Show, James Cohan Gallery New York
Arte Fiera Bologna, James Cohan Gallery New York
2006 Art Basel Miami Beach, Peres Projects Los Angeles, Berlin
Art Basel Miami Beach, James Cohan Gallery New York
Art Forum Berlin, Peres Projects Los Angeles, Berlin
Collections (selected)
Saatchi Collection London
Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lever House Art Collection New York
Museum Het Domein Sittard, Netherlands
Margulies Art Collection at the Warehouse Miami
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art New York
Dakis Joannou Collection Athens
Plancius Collection Amsterdam
Chadha Art Collection Amsterdam
Private Collections in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and
the Netherlands
Monographs
G. Volk, M.J. Straus, Les Saltimbanques – Folkert de Jong
Black Cat Publishing Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-90-810418-4-3
A. Honold (ed.)
K. Zijlmans, J. Dietvorst, S. Weyns, Gott Mit Uns – Folkert de Jong
Black Cat Publishing Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-90-810418-1-2
S. Lütticken, M. van Nieuwenhuizen, S. Wallis, Folkert de Jong – Shoot The Freak
NAI Publishers Rotterdam, 2005, ISBN 90-5662-450-4

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