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Constance DeJong is an American artist, writer, and performer. DeJong produces fiction texts and new media-based work for performance and theater, audio, and video installations. She has permanent audio installations in Beacon, NY, London, and Seattle. She is also known as the writer on the libretto of Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha, as well as her numerous collaborations with Tony Oursler on projects such as Fantastic Prayers. DeJong has exhibited internationally with projects produced by organizations such as the Dia Art Foundation and Minetta Brook. She is a professor of art and time-based media at Hunter College.

Constance DeJong (visual artist) visual artist

Constance DeJong is a visual artist who works in the margin between sculpture and painting/drawing. Her predominate medium is metal with light as a dominate factor. She is currently working in New Mexico and is a Professor of Sculpture at the University of New Mexico. DeJong received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Art Fellowship in 1982. In 2003, she had a retrospective at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. That same year, Constance DeJong: Metal was published and released by University of New Mexico Press. Her work has been described by American art critic Dave Hickey as "work worth seeing and thinking about under any circumstances".

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