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  • Where was jeff koons born

    • Born in 1955, in York, Pennsylvania

    Education

    1976
    Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, B.F.A.

    1975-76
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1972-75  
    Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

    Solo Exhibitions

    2023
    'Absolute Value, Selected works from the collection of Marie and Jose Mugrabi', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 

    2021
    'Jeff Koons', DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece (Upcoming)
    ‘Shine’, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 
    'Jeff Koons', MUCEM, Marseille, France 

    2019
    'Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean', The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

    2018
    'Masterpiece', De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2017
    ‘Seated Ballerina’, Public Installation, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, US
    'Jeff Koons', Almine Rech, London, UK 

    2016                   
    'Jeff Koons', Almine Rech Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London
    'Jeff Koons: Now', Newport Street Gallery, London

    2015
    'Jeff Koons in Florence', Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
    'Jeff Koons: Ballon Venus (Orange)', Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria
    'Jeff Koons: A retrospective', Gugghenheim, Bilbao, Spain
    'Artist rooms : Jeff Koons, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK

    2014
    'Le Jardin décomposé. Decomposed Garden', Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, France
    'Jeff Koons: A retrospective', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    'Jeff Koons: A retrospective', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    2013
    'Jeff Koons', Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
    'Gazing Ball', David Zwirner, New York, USA

    2012
    'Jeff Koons', Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium 
    'Jeff Koons', Beyeler Foundation, Basel,

    Jeff Koons (born 1955) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and controversial artists of the post-war era. His universally recognizable style is a mix of surrealism, dada, and pop, resulting in bold paintings and monumental sculptures that comment on contemporary culture. Koons draws attention to the continuity of images throughout time, merging art historical references with images of everyday objects and engaging the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history.

    Koons’ first solo exhibition took place at the New Museum in New York in 1980. Since then he has been the focus of exhibitions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Château de Versailles; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul among others. 

    Jeff Koons began collaborating with Two Palms in 2016 and has since made two print series, Gazing Ball and Antiquity, with the studio. 

    Gazing Ball (Turner Ancient Rome), 2021
    Archival Pigment Print on Innova rag paper, glass
    34 15/16 x 44 1/16 inches 
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    Gazing Ball (Giotto The Kiss of Judas), 2021
    Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
    40 3/4 x 39 7/8 inches
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    Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass), 2019
    Archival Pigment Print on Innova rag paper, glass
    39 1/16 x 48 inches
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    Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints), 2017
    Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
    43 3/4 x 33 15/16 inches
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    Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints), 2017
    Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
    43 3/4 x 33 15/16 inches
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    Jeff Koons

    "I wanted to do something without being illustrative. I wanted it to show inclusion, transformation and grace." - Jeff Koons on "Radial Champs"

    Koons is one of the most influential living fine artists today.   He is an icon of the modern art world. His meteoric rise in the 1980s was due to his part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated age.

    With his stated intention to communicate with the masses, Koons draws from the visual language of mass media and advertising, and the entertainment industry. Testing the limits between high and low culture, his sculptural menagerie includes Plexiglas-encased Hoover vacuum cleaners, basketballs floating in glass aquariums, porcelain homages to Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther.

    Koons' frequent goal is to present common objects as is. "When I'm working with an object I always have to give the greatest consideration not to alter the object physically or even psychologically. I try to reveal a certain aspect of the object's personality. I'm placing the object in a context or material which will enhance a specific personality trait within the object. The soul of the object must be maintained ..."

    Koons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions - at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago amongst others.

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    Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1976), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008) and Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC (2002). Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects.

    The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent in his work, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.

    Among the awards he has received are Officer of the French Legion of Honor (2007); the Artistic Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts (2006); and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2002). Recent major exhibitions have appeared at Château de Versailles, France (2008); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2006); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002); and other institutions. Koons has participated in the Bienal de São Paulo (2002); Venice Biennale (1990, 1997); Sydney Biennale (1990); and the Whitney Biennial (1987, 1989). He was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy for Arts and Sciences in 2005. Jeff Koons lives and works in New York.

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