DE JONG, MARC CV

Website: http://www.prdctvsm.com/

Born 1970, Zurich Switzerland
Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts
Diploma in Fine Arts: Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
Advanced Certificate of Art and Design, Prahran College of TAFE

AWARDS & PRIZES
2008 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Finalist
2006 ABN Amro Emerging Artist’s Award, Finalist
2006 Fletcher Jones Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Finalist
2001 Creative Resistance Competition, Adbusters 2001
1997 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Scholarship, Finalist
1988 Melbourne High School Art Prize

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Artbank
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
CSIRO
Hains
Philip Hunter
David Larwill
Monash University
Schwartz family
Schepsi
Smorgon Family Collection

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 PNTNGS, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW
2005 Marc de Jong New Works, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2004 Mad Max Paintings, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2001 More readvertising, Revolver upstairs, Melbourne VIC
2000 Overlay paintings, United Art Gallery, North Melbourne VIC
1999 Debit card series: readvertising, City Lights, Melbourne VIC
1998 Neveready, The Basement, 333 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC
1997 Readvertising, 191 Café, Taylor Square, Sydney NSW
PCTRZ, Big Mouth Gallery, St Kilda VIC
Readvertising, Stop 22 Gallery, St Kilda VIC
Skier, Print Mode, Melbourne VIC
Suburb, Print Mode, Melbourne VIC
1996 Tiger, Zebra, Candy Bar, Prahran VIC
No idea, Cherry Tree, Richmond VIC
PNTNGS, Octave Gallery, Prahran VIC
1994 Beat Heads, 205 Russell Street, Melbourne VIC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 SSFA07, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW
2006 The (Royal) Melbourne Show, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW 2006
Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
The Royal Melbourne Show, Sullivan Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW
2005 Art Sydney 05, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney NSW
Polit-art-call, Ember67 Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Monster Children Gallery, Sydney NSW
Until Never, Citylights Project, Melbourne VIC
2004 Eureka Revisited, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, State Library VIC
2003 Productivism, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat VIC
2002 Marcsta vs Merda, PB Gallery, Swinburne University, Prahran VIC
Refugee Fundraiser, Gamma Space, Melbourne VIC
Art in the city, Gamma Space, Melbourne VIC
2001 Squat Space, Sydney VIC
2000 United Arts Launch VIC
1998 Evil Men, Revolver, Chapel Street, Prahran VIC
Ritchie Family Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat VIC
Pin Oak Gallery, Flemington VIC
The Bridge Project, Collins Street, Melbourne VIC
City Loop, (Curator), Sahara Gallery VIC
1996 (It) Figure, Octave Gallery, Prahran VIC
Shamocracy, Lyall Building Gallery, Melbourne VIC
1995 Mindamaze, Global village, Footscray VIC
MCM Studio exhibition, 2/252 Swanston Walk, Melbourne VIC
1994 Sector 29, Fringe Festival, Art performance, China Town exhibition Coordinator VIC
1993 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Geelong art gallery VIC
The last supper, Poison Ball Gallery, North Melbourne VIC
1979 Me, Myself and I, Children's Art, National gallery of Victoria VIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

‘Away with the Pixels! – The Art of Marc de Jong’ Time Out Sydney, Issue 32, June 8-24 2008 pp 37 - 42
Periz, I. ‘Spamocracy’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 44 April – June, 2008 pp124 - 131
Lobley, Katrina. 'Events' Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2007 Jinman, Richard. ‘Street Art moves to a posh new hang-out’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 April 2007, p11
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Media Dreaming’, catalogue essay, 2007
Crawford, Ashley. ‘Mad Max's true grit’, The Age, 2004 Radok, S. ‘Real or not real’ The Adelaide Review, 2004
Hodges, Julia. ‘Artists give brand names new twist’ The Courier, 15 March 2003
Chunn, Jeremy. ‘Money’, Australian Style, 21 March 2001
Safe, Georgina. ‘Culture bandits tell advertisers where to jaw it’ The Australian, 22 December 2000
Faulkner, Jane. ‘A city's art beats in youth’ The Age, 2000
O'Grady, Dan. ‘Return to reality, Marc de Jong's work in progress’, 2000
Shiel, Fergus. ‘The art of culture jamming’, The Age, 1999
Butler, Ben. ‘Bank NAB's art’, The Big Issue, 1999
Strickland, Katrina. ‘Art no credit to bank’The Australian, 21 April 1999
Strickland, Katrina. ‘Writing on the wall as bank loses art’ The Australian, 1999
Butler, Ben. ‘Bank White washes art’, The Big Issue, 1999
Shiel, Fergus. ‘Breaking the Code’, The Age, 1999 Butler, Ben. ‘Spitting images’, The Big Issue, 16 November 1998