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

EDUCATION
1998-2000
Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994-1996
Academy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium
Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
A Thousand Years of Business as Usual, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2008
Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Der Falsche Prophet, Peres Projects Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2006
Gott Mit Uns, Lever House, New York, NY
Gott Mit Uns, Kunsthalle Winterhur, Switzerland
2005
Golden Dawn, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Medusa's First Move: The Council, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
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
2008
Styrofoam, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Double Diplomacy, with Fendry Ekel, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Against Nature, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia
2007
MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
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, NY
Chronic, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; travelling to Museum Dhont Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2006
Replacing Mashkov, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
Extimate, Poetry Summer 2006, Watou, Belgium
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
I Love My Scene 2, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
DARK, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Long Live Sculpture!, Museum Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
reverence, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Sculptures 2006, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle, Netherlands
2005
Gods & Monsters: Folkert de Jong, John Kleckner and Andrew Mania, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2004
The Dark Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
The Eternal Body, Galleria Villa de Massimo/KNIR, Rome, Italy
Grotto 2, Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY
Open Studios, ISCP, New York, NY
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, The Hague, 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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
Karich, Swantje, "Nach der Maleci ist vor der Skulptur," Kunstmarkt, September 30, 2006
Poetry Summer 2006 'Extimate,' Poeziezomer Watou, Belgium, exh. cat.
Lowenstein, Kate, "Art in the City: Group Mentalities, A Brighter Day and A Matter of Time," The L Magazine, July 5 – 18, 2006
Cohen, David, "The Dark Side of Summer," The New York Sun, June 15, 2006
Gouveia, Georgette, "Peekskill Exhibit Explores Spirituality," The Journal News,
June 9, 2006
2006
Personal Shopper.com, W Magazine, May 2006
Jones, Jonathan, "Folkert de Jong," The Guardian, April 18, 2006
Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Folkert de Jong," Modern Painters, February 2006
2005
Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak', NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
KunstRai, Kwak, Van Daalen and Ronday, Folkert de Jong, exh. cat.
Lütticken, Sven, Martijn van Nieuwenhuijzen and Simon Wallis, "Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak,'" NAi Publishers, UK
Genocchio, Benjamin, "Images of Reality, In Three Dimensions," The New York Times, June 26, 2005
"Medusa's First Move: The Council," Chisenhale Gallery, April 2005, UK
2004
Jager, Hans Hartog, "Purschuim in obsceen geel", NRC, May 14
2003
Prix de Rome 2003, exh. cat.
Schole, Harald, KM magazine, Issue: Winter 2003
2002
Charlotte Köhler Prize Jury report
Price, Mark, "The Iceman Cometh," Sculpture USA, March 2002
Proeftuin, exh. cat., Centre for Visual Arts, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
2001
Algemeine, Frankfurter, "Stroomversnelling",Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Kees Kijer, "Processie van vele lachande invaliden", Parool, June 2
Kopsa, Maxine, Metropolis M, number 4
Stroband, David, "The Iceman Cometh: An Icy Journey by Folkert de Jong to the
Depths of the Soul," Stedelijk Museum Bureau Newsletter, no. 60, May 12, 2001
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
"Geloofwaardige onderwereld", PZC, March 20
"Horror in Zeeland", Parool, March 2000
"Orpheus in de Vleeshal", BN-De Stem, April 11

HONORS AND AWARDS
2004
RAI Art Fair Prize Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
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
Grants and Stipends cont.
2001
Basisstipend, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

RESIDENCIES
2004
ISCP, New York, NY
2003
Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002
USF-Bergen, Norway
2001
Eric Philips Residencies, Montreuil, Paris, France
2000
RAIN-project, Bombay, India

COLLECTIONS
GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Centre for Visual Arts, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
The Plancius Collection, Amsterdam