Folkert de Jong (born 1972) is a Dutch artist. He makes large-scale sculptures and installations.
De Jong was born in Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands. De Jong’s installations are life-size representations of disturbing scenes including human figures and props formed from materials such as polyurethane and Styrofoam;Benjamin Genocchio, Folkert de Jong : Les Saltimbanques, New York Times, novembre 9, 2007 his work often features the uncanny and takes influence from the aesthetics of horror and the history of conflict, war and politics.David Stroband, The Iceman Cometh, 12 May - 24 June 2001
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,Folkert De Jong, "Operation Harmony" Time Out, 13 April 2011 James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2011 The Immortals,Adrian Searle, Glasgow Festival of Visual Art: The new Scottish colourists, the Guardian, 24 April 2012 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 KDR KunstRAI Prize, Amsterdam, 2004Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak' , NAi Publishers, retrieved 13 June 2012.
References
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