Folkert de Jong (born 1972) is a Dutch artist. He makes large-scale

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and installations. De Jong was born in

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in the

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. De Jong’s installations are life-size representations of disturbing scenes including human figures and props formed from materials such as

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and

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; his work often features the

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and takes influence from the aesthetics of horror and the history of conflict,

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and

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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 The Groninger Museum () is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The museum exhibits modern and contemporary art of local, national, and international artists. The museum opened in 1874. The current post-modernist building co ...

, Groningen, 2009 *''Operation Harmony'', James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2011 *''The Immortals'', Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012 *''State of light'', Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy, 2017 *''Retrospective'',

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Tucson, Arizona, United States, was founded in 1997, by Julia Latane, James Graham, and David Wright. The museum was founded to create a permanent institution for contemporary art in Tucson's arts distri ...

, Arizona, USA, 2018

Awards

*Prix de Rome, Sculpture, 2003 *KDR

KunstRAI KunstRAI is an annual art fair for modern and contemporary art held at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, every May. From 2006 to 2011 it was known as Art Amsterdam. The 2012 Art Amsterdam was to have been held at ...

Prize, Amsterdam, 2004Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak'
NAi Publishers, retrieved 13 June 2012.

References

*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 Daily Telegraph, 2011 *Jackie Wullschlager

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jong, Folkert de 1972 births Living people Dutch contemporary artists Dutch installation artists Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors Contemporary sculptors People from Egmond Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners

Exhibitions

Awards

References

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