Mariejon de Jong-Buijs
Born in The Netherlands
Currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland
UPCOMING
2025
Solo Exhibition, see you next tuesday, Basel CH
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
INTERFACE, Lille Grand Palais, curated by Annuschka Leung, Lille France (Solo presentation)
2022
Project 10, space25, Basel Switzerland (Solo)
2021
Flatness interrupted, PAN-Basel, Switzerland, curated by Isabel Balzer (Solo)
2019
Vast Expanses, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton PA, USA, curated by Colleen Gutwein O'Neal (Duo)
2015
Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Bottmingen Switzerland (Solo)
2014
About Painting, Art Gallery HAUS 41, Gipf-Oberfrick Switzerland (Solo)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2025
Being Here, Porta Soprana, Cairo Montenotte IT
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
A SUMMER OF PERFECT BRIGHTNESS, see you next tuesday, Basel CH
MINIM.AL, with Anne Truitt in mind, iCOON museum for minimal art & design, Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands
HOW ABOUT NOW, curated by Raphael Reichert & Leah Studinger, FABRIKculture, Hégenheim, France
2023
Imaginary Mountains: Remembering Painting, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels Belgium, curated by Isabel Balzer
2022
Irgendwo in den Bergen: Reflecting Painting, Scala Trun, Switzerland, curated by Isabel Balzer
2021
37. Kantonale Jahresausstellung 2021, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten Switzerland
PICTORIAL SPACES, Regionale 22, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz Switzerland, curated by Inés Tondar & Ines Goldbach
HATAK, online exhibition, Attic Space North Willow, Montclair NJ, USA
Art Matters 4, online exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne Germany
Heute malen wir, Villa Renata, Basel Switzerland, curated by Isabel Balzer
Transmergence #02, Regionale 21, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat France, curated by Isabelle Marchall & Felizitas Diering
Summe 2021, Bookshop Palermo, Basel Switzerland
10'000 Years Oslo, Salon Mondial, Münchenstein Switzerland
2020
Pandemic Projections, Singac NJ, USA, curated by Wavelength
Quarantaine, Spaceout, Payerne Switzerland
2019
Taplin Gallery, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton NJ, USA
Hopewell Tour des Arts, Open Studios Hopewell NJ, USA
STOOK ‘feel the need’, De Steenfabriek, Gilze The Netherlands
INDEX, Index Art Center, Newark NJ, USA
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York City NY, USA
2018
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ, USA
Sav/fe, Fort Sabina, Heijningen The Netherlands
pictura, produzentengalerie plan.d., Düsseldorf Germany
2017
malerei, Atelier Mondial, Basel Switzerland
Video-Summe 17 'Videoförmig', Kaskadenkondensator, Basel Switzerland
2016
Regionale 17, Border-Crossing, FABRIKculture, Hégenheim France
Liste Total, LISTE 21 - Art Fair, Dr. Kuckucks Labrador, Basel Switzerland
2015
Regionale 16, Städtische Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein Germany
Mx. World. On the Million Genders of the Real, Kunsthalle Basel Switzerland, curated by Chus Martinez
Irma la Douce, REVISITED, Penthouse Gallery, Zürich Switzerland
2014
Zwanzig Jahre Kasko, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel Switzerland
RESIDENCIES
2025
Artist Residency, Il Gattopardo, Liguria IT
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).
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
ARTIST TALKS/PROJECTS
2024
Lithography, Druckwerkstatt Seon, Seon CH
'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 Stiftung, Haus Oslo Genossenschaft, Munchenstein, (Baselland) Switzerland
2023
Lithography, Druckwerkstatt Seon, Seon Switzerland
2022
Artist talk with Senam Okudzeto, moderated by Manuel Herzog, space25, Basel Switzerland
2014
The Second Day with Trevor Paglen, Institute Art Gender Nature (FHNW), Basel Switzerland
Night Talks, Radio X, Institute Art Gender Nature (FHNW), Basel Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Booklet in response to MINIM.AL, with Anne Truitt in mind, iCOON, Hoek van Holland NL
2023
Life is better in the country, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 2nd Edition. Printed in Switzerland
2022
Life is better in the country, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 1st Edition. 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 (Te-Ha-Tex), Tilburg The Netherlands.
COLLECTIONS
Collection of indivi Basel, CH
Private collections
