1991
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. Koons lives and works in New York City.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s sculptures, prints and other works have been shown in major galleries and institutions throughout the world. 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 (November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015) and the Guggenheim Bilbao (June 9 – September 27, 2015).
Other exhibitions include “Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even”; “Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean”; and “Jeff Koons. Shine” at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy. “Jeff Koons: Lost in America” was on view at QM Gallery ALRIWAQ in Doha, Qatar from November 21, 2021 through March 31, 2022.
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. Another floral sculpture, Split-Rocker (2000), previously installed at the Papal Palace in Avignon, Château de Versailles, and Fondation Beyeler in Basel, was most recently on view at Rockefeller Center in 2014.
Koons has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his cultural achievements. Notably, the artist received the Governor’s Awards for the Arts “Distinguished Arts Award” from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; President Jacques Chirac promoted Koons to Officier de la Legion d’Honneur; former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honored Koons with the State Department Medal of the Arts for his outstanding commitment to the Art in Embassies Program and international cultural exchange; and Consul General Ragini Gupta presented Koons the U.S. Consulate General’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy in Florence.
In 2017, Koons was made the first Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and, also, made an Honorary Member of University of Oxford's Edgar Wind Society for Outstanding Contribution for Visual Culture. Koons has been a board member of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) since 2002, and cofounded the Koons Family International Law and Policy Institute with ICMEC for the purpose of combating global issues of child abduction and exploitation and to protect the world’s children.
The authentic Jeff Koons art on 1stDibs includes sculptures, prints, mixed media and more.
(Biography provided by Galleri GKM Siwert Bergstrom)
Puppy
By Jeff Koons
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We’re big fans of Jeff Koon’s famously optimistic, kitschy and celebratory approach to contemporary pop art. We’ve offered a number of Koon’s humorous and playful works before, and...
Enamel
Inflatable Flower and Bunny
By Jeff Koons
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 has a particular interest in sculptors. Jeff Koons, as polemic as he is, is one of the 20th century’s most important and audacious sculptors. This print celebrates one of h...
Lithograph
Cornucopia
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant contribution to postmodern and conceptual art in Canada and beyond. The group was both prolific and multi-disciplinary long before it became de rigueur. They use photography, sculpture, painting, mail art, video, installation, multiples, and performance. With their subversive approach and interest in parody and appropriation, General Idea addressed a broad range of social (and art-world) issues such as the cult of the artist, mass media, queer identity, and consumerism. Thematic continuity was a key element in General Idea's work. Early on they introduced talismans or logos that they would revisit and re-envision, including skulls, ziggurats, and poodles. This print comes from "Fear Management": a set of 8 prints...
Screen
Final Draught
By Joanne Tod
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joanne Tod (b.1953) is a renowned Canadian artist and a master of figurative painting, the same caliber, and importance as Alex Colville and Christopher Pratt. Throughout her illus...
Canvas, Oil
Shoes
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol began using the big-shot Polaroid camera in 1971 and continued using it religiously until his death in 1987. Despite the camera being discontinued in 1973, he continued to use it to capture the actors, artists, dancers, politicians, socialites, and Factory members of his world. Warhol's Polaroids were often used as preparatory works for his iconic portraits and other artworks. They also revealed his immediate personal vision, chronicling his surroundings and social life. Shoes were a recurring motif throughout Warhol's oeuvre and helped launch his career and reputation. He became synonymous with shoes in the mid-1950s after a successful ad campaign for Miller & Sons. See an early example of Warhol's shoe drawings...
Polaroid
Puppy
By Jeff Koons
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We’re big fans of Jeff Koons' famously optimistic, kitschy and celebratory approach to contemporary pop art. We’ve offered a number of Koons' humorous and playful works before, and...
Porcelain
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Bianca Sforni Untitled , 1996 Silver chlorobromide print mounted on aluminium 240 x 122 cm 94.5 x 48 inches Originally from Milan, Bianca Sforni (b. 1963) moved to Paris in 1985 to ...
Mixed Media
Untitled #1
By Laura Letinsky
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on verso, Edition of 9
See
By Justin Allen
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in Jefferson City Missouri in 1976 Justin Allen attended Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri where he studied filmmaking before studying painting at the Art Students Leagu...
Oil, Panel
Clip
Located in Milano, MI
Work on canvas by Anne Neukamp
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Nuevo Leon, MX
Obra sobre papel
UNTITLED (from the ON THE BOWERY portfolio)
Located in New York, NY
ON THE BOWERY, West Germany, Edition Domberger screenprint in colors AP V/XX ed.100
Screen
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
With a solo show at the Denver Art Museum and a commission from the Met, the Cree Canadian painter has become an international sensation.
