Folkert de Jong

Folkert de Jong
Born	1972 (age 52–53) Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Sculpture, Installation
Awards	Prix de Rome (Netherlands) (2003)
Website	studiofolkertdejong.com

Folkert de Jong (born 1972) is a Dutch artist. He makes large-scale sculptures and installations.^{[ citation needed ]}

De Jong was born in Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands.^{[ citation needed ]} De Jong’s installations are life-size representations of disturbing scenes including human figures and props formed from materials such as polyurethane and Styrofoam; ^[1] his work often features the uncanny and takes influence from the aesthetics of horror and the history of conflict, war and politics. ^[2]

Exhibitions

• Prix de Rome/Life's Illusions, 2004
• Golden Dawn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2005
• Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2007
• Circle of Trust: Selected Works 2001-2009, Groninger Museum, Groningen, 2009
• Operation Harmony, ^[3] James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2011
• The Immortals, ^[4] Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012
• State of light, Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy, 2017
• Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2018

Awards

• Prix de Rome, Sculpture, 2003 ^[5]
• KDR KunstRAI Prize, Amsterdam, 2004 ^[6]

References

1. Benjamin Genocchio, Folkert de Jong : Les Saltimbanques, New York Times, novembre 9, 2007
2. David Stroband, The Iceman Cometh, 12 May - 24 June 2001
3. Folkert De Jong, "Operation Harmony" Archived 2015-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Time Out, 13 April 2011
4. Adrian Searle, Glasgow Festival of Visual Art: The new Scottish colourists, the Guardian, 24 April 2012
5. "Prix de Rome Prix in the Netherlands". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
6. Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak' Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine , NAi Publishers, retrieved 13 June 2012.

Further reading

• Catriona Black, Go figure, Heraldscotland, 15 April 2012
• Timothée Chaillou, Interview à Folkert de Jong, Dorade spring - summer 2012
• Scott Indrisek, The Alchemist, Modern Painters, October 2011
• Philippe Dagen, La sculpture n'est pas morte, c'est Saatchi qui le dit, Le Monde, 16 June 2011
• Alastair Sooke, The future of sculpture - but with an eye on past masters , The Daily Telegraph, 2011
• Jackie Wullschlager, Let's get physical, Financial Times, 2011
• Nancy Durrant, The shape of things to come, The Times, 2011
• Saskia van der Kroef, Folkert De Jong: Groninger Museum, Artforum, February 2010
• S. van der Zijpp, Y. Tsitsovits, J. Declercq, Circle Of Trust - Folkert de Jong, selected works 2001-2009, Groninger Museum, Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2009
• M. Straus, C. Van Gerrewey, Double Dutch, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 2009
• J. Breton, A. Ténèze, Picasso – Ses maîtres et ses héritiers, Beaux Art éditions, Paris 2008
• M. LeBlanc, Folkert de Jong, Beautiful Decay, no. 5, 2008
• M. Amy, Folkert de Jong – Confronting the Grotesque, Sculpture magazine vol. 27/5, June 2008
• G. Volk, M. J. Straus, A. Finel Honigman, Folkert de Jong - Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2007
• K. Zijlmans, J. Dietvorst, S. Weyns, Folkert de Jong - Gott Mit Uns, Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2006
• S. Wallis, S. Lüttiken, M. van Nieuwenhuizen, Folkert de Jong - Shoot The Freak, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2005