Artist
Jeff Koons is one of the most prominent artists working today. He is known for transforming everyday images and objects into works of art that engage the viewer. For over four decades, he has explored themes of self-acceptance, empowerment and transcendence.
Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, his work has been shown in major galleries and institutions throughout the world. He is widely known for his mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures “Rabbit” and “Balloon Dog,” and universally recognized for his monumental floral sculptures. “Puppy” is on view at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, while “Split-Rocker” is on permanent view at Glenstone in Maryland and outside the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
His work was the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” (June 27–October 19, 2014), which traveled to the Pompidou Center Paris and Guggenheim Bilbao. Recent exhibitions include “Shine” at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence; “Jeff Koons: Lost in America” at Qatar Museums Gallery – Al Riwaq in Doha; “Jeff Koons: Apollo” at the Slaughterhouse, a DESTE Foundation Project Space, in Hydra, Greece; “Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series” at Gagosian in New York; and “Jeff Koons: Paintings and Banality – Selected Works From the Collection” at Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka; and “Jeff Koons: 'Venus' Lespugue” at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.
Koons lives and works in New York City.
