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Jeffrey Lynn Koons ( / kuːnz /; born January 21, 1955) [1] is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror- finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.
Koons is widely known for his iconic sculptures Rabbit and Balloon Dog as well as the monumental floral sculpture Puppy (1992), shown at Rockefeller Center and permanently installed at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Jeff Koons Artwork. ARTPOP – Lady Gaga. Koons designed Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP album cover and exhibited artwork at Gaga’s artRAVE in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. © Jeff Koons.
Jeff Koons is the anti-modernist, a shrewd, self-proclaimed crowd-pleaser and avid promoter of his own work.
Jun 6, 2024 · Jeff Koons, one of a number of American artists to emerge in the 1980s with an aesthetic devoted to the decade’s pervasive consumer culture. A couple of Koons’s best-known works, Balloon Dog (Orange) (1990s) and Rabbit (1986), set auction records.
Jun 27, 2014 · Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of ...
Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.
Feb 23, 2024 · CNN — With the lunar touchdown of the Odysseus spacecraft on Thursday, the world’s most expensive living artist has now earned a new, space-age superlative: His creation is now the first “...
Honoree at the National YoungArts Foundation's YoungArts Backyard Ball, Miami, Florida. Honoree at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children 2015 Gala for Child Protection, New York, NY. 2014. Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, 51st Annual International Achievement Summit, San Francisco, California.
Jeff Koons has been called the world’s most famous, controversial and subversive living artist, and in 2019 he arrived at the world’s oldest public museum. This major exhibition offered an exciting journey through a career that has pushed at the boundaries of contemporary art.
