All rights reserved: @Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 2024
Born in The Netherlands, lives and works in Basel, Switzerland
Current
2025 «In the Dutch mountains», Solo Exhibition, see you next tuesday, Basel CH. (Solo)
Solo – Duo exhibitions
2023 INTERFACE, Lille Grand Palais, curated by Annuschka Leung, Lille FR (Solo presentation)
2022 Project 10, Duo with Senam Okudzeto, space25, Basel CH
2021 Flatness interrupted, curated by Isabel Balzer, PAN-Basel CH (Solo)
2019 Vast Expanses, Duo with Katrina Bello, curated by Colleen Gutwein O'Neal, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton PA, USA.
2015 Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Bottmingen CH (Solo)
2014 About Painting, Art Gallery HAUS 41, Gipf-Oberfrick CH (Solo)
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2025 Being Here, Porta Soprana, Cairo Montenotte IT
2025 Oslo Intercity - Food for Thought, Artstübli Kunst & Kultur, part of Summe Biennale, Basel CH
2024 praxis: paintingforfuckssake, curated by Joseph O'Neal, Eleven20, Easton PA, USA
2024 A SUMMER OF PERFECT BRIGHTNESS, see you next tuesday, Basel CH
2024 MINIM.AL, with Anne Truitt in mind, iCOON museum for minimal art & design, Hoek van Holland NL
2024 HOW ABOUT NOW, FABRIKculture, curated by Raphael Reichert & Leah Studinger, Hégenheim FR
2023 Imaginary Mountains: Remembering Painting, curated by Isabel Balzer, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels BE
2022 Irgendwo in den Bergen: Reflecting Painting, curated by Isabel Balzer, Scala Trun CH
2021 37. Kantonale Jahresausstellung 2021, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten CH
2021 PICTORIAL SPACES, Regionale 22, curated by Inés Tondar & Ines Goldbach, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz CH
2021 HATAK, online, Attic Space North Willow, Montclair NJ, USA
2021 Art Matters 4, online, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne DE
2021 Heute malen wir, Villa Renata, curated by Isabel Balzer, Basel CH
2021 Transmergence #02, Regionale 21, curated by Isabelle Marchall & Felicitas Diering, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat FR
2021 Summe 2021, Bookshop Palermo, Basel CH
2021 10'000 Years Oslo, Salon Mondial, Münchenstein CH
2020 Pandemic Projections, curated by Wavelength, Singac NJ, USA
2019 Taplin Gallery, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton NJ, USA
2019 Hopewell Tour des Arts, Open Studios Hopewell NJ, USA
2019 STOOK ‘feel the need’, De Steenfabriek, Gilze NL
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 NL
2018 pictura, Galerie plan.d., Düsseldorf DE
2017 malerei, Atelier Mondial, Basel CH
2017 Video-Summe 17 'Videoförmig', Kaskadenkondensator, Basel CH
2016 Regionale 17, Border-Crossing, FABRIKculture, Hégenheim FR
2016 Liste Total, LISTE 21 - Art Fair, Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel CH
2015 Regionale 16, Städtische Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein DE
2015 Mx. World. On the Million Genders of the Real, curated by Chus Martinez, Kunsthalle Basel CH
2014 Zwanzig Jahre Kasko, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel CH
Collections
Collection of indivi Basel, CH
Private collections
Residencies
2025 Artist in Residence, Il Gattopardo, Cairo Montenotte, Italy
Grants - Awards
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", New York, NY USA
2019: The New York Foundation for the Arts, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Newark, NJ USA
Artist Talks - Projects
2025: Lino-cut, Druckwerkstatt Seon, Seon CH
2024: Lithography, Druckwerkstatt Seon, Seon CH
2024: 'Untitled (For Dan Flavin)', guided tour through the exhibition - Dan Flavin, Dedications of Light - through the eyes of a museums guard, Kunstmuseum Basel, CH
2023: Studio Talks, moderated by Rolf Bismarck & Annette Schindler, supported by Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel CH
2023: Lithography, Druckwerkstatt Seon, Seon CH
2022: Artist talk, Project 10, space25, Basel CH. Moderator: Manuel Herzog
2014: The Second Day with Trevor Paglen, Institute Art Gender Nature (FHNW), Basel CH
2014: Night Talks, Radio X, Institute Art Gender Nature (FHNW), Basel CH
Publications
2025: IL SECOLO XIX, Giovedì, 3 Aprille 2025, VALBORMIDA, Artists of Residency Il Gattopardo
2024: Basler Zeitung - Simon Baur, 'Soll das im Atelier bleiben oder kann das raus?', HOW ABOUT NOW, Hegenheim, FR
2024: Booklet in response to MINIM.AL, with Anne Truitt in mind, iCOON, Hoek van Holland NL
2023: Life is better in the country, catalog Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 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 France. ISBN 978-2-911963-74-2
Education (Selection)
2013 – 2015 MFA, Institute Art Gender Nature (former Institute Kunst FHNW), Basel Switzerland
1990 – 1994 BA Teacher Drawing / Painting, Fontys, University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg The Netherlands