All rights reserved: @Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 2022
Born in The Netherlands
Currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland
Education
2013 – 2015 Master in Fine Arts, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW, Basel, Switzerland
1990 – 1994 Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts, Te-Ha-Tex, HBO Katholieke Leergangen, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Exhibitions
Upcoming: 2022 Irgendwo in den Bergen: Reflecting Painting, Scala Raum für Kunst & Musik, Trun, Switzerland
2022 Project 10, Senam Okudzeto & Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, Space25, Basel Switzerland - duo
2021 37. Kantonale Jahresausstellung 2021, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten Switzerland
2021 PICTORIAL SPACES, Regionale 22, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
2021 Art Matters 4, Online Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne Germany
2021 HATAK, online project, Attic Space North Willow in Northern New Jersey, USA.
2021 ‘Flatness interrupted‘, PAN-Basel - solo
2021 Heute malen wir, Villa Renata, Basel Switzerland
2021 Transmergence #02 Entre Nous, Regionale 21, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat
2021 Summe 2021, Oslo trifft Palermo, Bookshop Palermo, Basel, Switzerland
2021 10'000 Years Oslo, Salon Mondial, Münchenstein, Switzerland
2020 “Pandemic Projections”, public video projections, Singac NJ, USA
2020 Quarantaine, Spaceout, Payerne, Switzerland
2019 Taplin Gallery, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton NJ, USA
2019 Hopewell Tour des Arts, Open Studios Hopewell NJ, USA
2019 VAST EXPANSES, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton PA , USA - duo
2019 STOOK feel the need, De Steenfabriek, Gilze, The Netherlands
2019 INDEX, Index Art Center, Newark NJ, USA
2019 The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York City NY, USA
2018 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ, USA
2018 ‘Sav/fe’, Fort Sabina, Heijningen, The Netherlands
2018 pictura, Galerie plan.d., Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 ‘Malerei’, Cuisine Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Video-Summe 17 'Videoförmig', Kaskadenkondensator, Basel Switzerland
2016 Regionale 17, 'Border-Crossing', FABRIKculture, Hégenheim France
2016 Liste Total, LISTE 21 - Art Fair, Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Regionale 16, Städtische Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2015 Mx. World. On the Million Genders of the Real, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2015 Irma la Douce, REVISITED, Penthouse Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2015 Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Bottmingen, Switzerland - solo
2014 About Painting, Art Gallery HAUS 41, Gipf-Oberfrick, Switzerland - solo
2014 Zwanzig Jahre Kasko, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
Publications
2022 Life is better in the country, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs. Designed by nonsai, printed in Switzerland
2021 Fonds régional d'art contemporain Alsace, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, Catalog in respons to Transmergence #02 Entre nous, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat. Impprimeur / Druckerei: OTT imprimerie, Strasbourg (FR). ISBN 978-2-911963-74-2
Awards and Honors
2022: Pre-selection on Project iExist for the Global Exhibition Program of Project Anywhere, 2022. An exhibition program for art at the outermost limits of location-specificity. Project Anywhere is supported as part of a partnership between the Centre of Visual Art (University of Melbourne) and Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology (Parsons School of Design, The New School).
2022: The New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship for Project "iExist", a forthcoming Artist Book/Exhibition, NY USA
2019: The New York Foundation for the Arts, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Newark, NJ USA
Projects (Selection)
2019 Critic Group, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Alumni Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Newark, NJ USA