BIO

Mariejon de Jong-Buijs is living and working in Basel, Switzerland. In 1994 she graduated with a BA in art in the Netherlands and completed her MFA at Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel, Switzerland in 2015. In 2019 de Jong-Buijs participated in the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her project iExist, was accepted in the Fiscal Sponsorship Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts in New York. 

Her work is part of incorporate and private collections in Europe, Canada, Australia, North and South America. Mariejon de Jong-Buijs’ work has been shown widely nationally and internationally, including at the Kunsthalle Basel, CH FABRIKculture Hégenheim, FR, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ USA, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA USA, FRAC Alsace Sélestat, FR, Kunstmuseum Olten, CH, De Steenfabriek Gilze, NL, Kunshaus Baselland, Muttenz, CH, Ballroom Gallery Brussels, BE, Lille Grand Palais Lille, FR, iCOON, Museum for Minimal Art & Design, Hoek van Holland, NL, Fort Sabina Henrica, Heijningen, NL, Heike Strelow Galerie, Frankfurt, DE and Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, FR.