Constance DeJong is an artist-designed publication that was produced on the occasion of the Constance DeJong exhibition and includes texts on DeJong's work by distinguished writers, artists, and editors, as well as a previously unpublished text by the artist.

Contributions by: Christine Danford, Ellie Ga, James Hoff, Lucy Ives, Karen Kelly, Jennifer Krasinski, Tony Oursler, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Pierre Sondeijker, Mike Thomas, Matvei Yankelevich
Essays by: Sarah Watson, Chief Curator of the Hunter College Art Galleries, and Jocelyn Spaar, Assistant Curator of Constance DeJong exhibition
Interview by: Andrea Merkx, artist and Hunter alumna
Publication Design: Natalie Wedeking
Copyediting: Jenn Bratovich

The publication is available for $30 dollars, plus a $5 flat shipping fee and can be purchased here.

The publication launched November 30th, 2020 with a virtual event. Watch it here.


Constance DeJong is made possible by a gift from the Legere Family Foundation in honor of daughter Elizabeth Legere (Hunter College MA 2017), and in appreciation of Hunter College distinguished lecturer Constance DeJong and Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History.

Constance DeJong is a New York-based artist and writer who has exhibited and performed locally and internationally. Her first book, Modern Love, originally published by Standard Editions with Dorothea Tanning in 1977, was re-issued in March 2017 by Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse. She has permanent audio-text installations in Beacon, NY, London and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, A Builders Association production (2005); librettist for the opera, Satyagraha, composer Philip Glass. She produced and exhibited a series of re-engineered radios programmed with spoken word-foley tracks, written, performed, recorded and mixed by DeJong, 2016-18. NightWriters, a digital text-image project, was published on-line by Triple Canopy, March 2018; and, Bureau gallery exhibited NightWriters drawings, audio works and a performance, April-May 2018. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, exhibited her audio work and a performance, November 2018. She is an editor of the book, Tony Conrad Writings, 2019, Primary Information, publ. DeJong is represented by Bureau, NY.

Photography by Rachel Hillery.