Jacqueline de Jong

After an abortive escape attempt to England, her father Hans remained in Amsterdam while her mother, Alice de Jong-Weil and she made for Switzerland, accompanied by the Dutch painter Max van Dam.

Between 1962 and 1968 she edited and published The Situationist Times[3] involving Gaston Bachelard, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam and Jacques Prévert in this project.

From starting her activities as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist, she keeps on exhibiting all over Europe and the U.S.A. She created wall paintings for the Amsterdam town hall and a separate installation for the Nederlandse Bank.

In 1970 she left Asger Jorn and moved to Amsterdam with Hans Brinkman later on a gallery owner and organiser of exhibitions and international Fairs.

Her Archive was purchased by Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, USA ('The de Jong Papers') in 2011,[5] where she also gave a lecture (7 May, May 2012).

In 2012 (9–25 May), an exhibition of her work was organized at Boo-Hooray in New York, under the title "Jacqueline de Jong: The Situationist Times 1962-1967”, including publications, photography, ephemera and manuscripts related to de Jong’s publication The Situationist Times, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first issue, after which five other issues appeared in the following years (till 1967).

[6] In 2019 she received the French AWARE prize for her career and oeuvre,[7] while a retrospective exhibition of her work, Pinball Wizard,[8] was on show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.