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, Koons has explored themes of self-acceptance, empowerment, and transcendence.
Jeff 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 BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s 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 Centre Pompidou Paris and Guggenheim Bilbao. Recent exhibitions include Shine at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence; Jeff Koons: Lost in America at QM Gallery ALRIWAQ 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 at Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka in Japan. Currently, Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue is on view at The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece.
Jeff Koons lives and works in New York City.