Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939, Hengelo, The Netherlands and died in 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. International interest in de Jong surged from 2018 following retrospectives at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Malmö Konsthall, and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse. In 2021, a major touring retrospective, The Ultimate Kiss, was inaugurated at WIELS, Brussels, before travelling to MOSTYN, Wales, and Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany. Subsequent exhibitions were mounted at NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale (2024), de Jong’s first US retrospective, and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2025-2026).
Current and recent group exhibitions include New Humans: Memories of the Future, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the inaugural exhibition at the newly expanded New Museum in New York (2026); Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc, Landerneau (2025); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2024-5); Rijksmusem, Amsterdam (2024); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022-23); Cobra Museum for Contemporary Art, Amstelveen (2023); BPS22 Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (2023); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2022 and 2017); The Warehouse, Dallas (2021); Lenbachhaus, Munich (2020); Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2018); and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2018).
In May 2023, de Jong was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2019 the AWARE Prize for Women Artists presented her with the Outstanding Merit Award in recognition of her exceptional career. That same year, These are Situationist Times! (Torpedo Press, Oslo), an in-depth history of the publication, was launched at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Her archive, Jacqueline de Jong Papers, was acquired in 2011 by the Beinecke Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Her collections include Centre Pompidou, Paris, and SFMOMA, CA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Le Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris; Musée les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Amsterdam Museum; Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Amstelveen; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Museum Arnhem; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum Jorn, Silkeborg; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; MONA, Tasmania; Elie Khouri Art Foundation, Dubai; Kunstmuseum Göteborg; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.