Jacqueline de Jong (Hengelo, Netherlands, 1939–Amsterdam, 2024) was a Dutch artist.
Her idiosyncratic oeuvre of painting, sculpture, and graphic art has been produced in dialogue with some of the most important postwar artistic movements in Europe—including
art brut,
Pop art,
New Figuration, and Postmodernism—over a period of more than six decades.
De Jong became involved in the
Situationist International, a radical avant-garde movement whose members aimed to break free from the spectacle of capitalism and create adventurous, self-directed encounters with the world when she was 21. Throughout her career, she stayed true to this spirit. Her shapeshifting and often politically engaged work was playful, erotic, funny, dark, and always radically contemporary. Unafraid and open, she sought to uncover what was concealed below the surfaces of the images that came at her in ever-increasing numbers and at an ever-increasing speed with the rise of TV, the internet, and social media. Her art was dedicated to revealing the hidden undercurrents—eroticism, violence, fear, agony, and lust—and, with a sense of play and pleasure, reinterpreting them so that a radical and more honest version of humanity might emerge.
