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Jeff Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons 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. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a wo…
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business · American sculptor and painter (born 1955) · sculptor · painter · photographer · installation artist · designer · businessperson · jewelry designer · collagist · artist · also Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Koons, Jeffrey Lynn Koons, Jeffrey L. Koons, Koons
Born 21 January 1955 · Q297525
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,530 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.7× the usual 530, with 0 article edits.
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Reported net worth: $500M.
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2025· 1 entry
Business Wire: Lexon and Jeff Koons Collaborate to Revolutionize Art with Technology
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: A sculpture by Jeff Koons has become the first 'authorized' artwork on the moon
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Artnet: Jeff Koons’s Art Is on the Moon, but His Prices Have Cratered. Can Power Players Reignite His Market?
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2023· 2 entries
CBS News: Jeff Koons explains role of technology in creating his art
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Yahoo: Woman accidentally smashes Jeff Koons ‘balloon dog’ art piece worth $42,000
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2022· 1 entry
Forbes: Pop Artist Jeff Koons Reveals Collectible BMW ‘8 X Jeff Koons’
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2021· 1 entry
Town & Country: Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World
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2020· 1 entry
And 2005, Koons worked with Stella McCartney on graphic T-shirts
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2019· 4 entries
Jeff Koons set a record for most expensive piece sold by a living artist, for the sale of "Rabbit"
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Making it the most expensive work sold by a living artist at auction
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An exhibition called Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean was held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom
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Koons unveiled Bouquet of Tulips, an 11-meter high commemorative sculpture in Paris modelled on the Statue of Liberty, honoring the victims of the November 2015 attacks
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2018· 2 entries
A French court ruled that his 1988 work Fait d'Hiver, which depicts a pig standing over a woman who is lying on her back, had copied an advertisement for a clothing chain and found Koons and the Centre Pompidou guilty of
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Billionaire art collector Steven Tananbaum brought a lawsuit against Koons and Gagosian Gallery for failing to deliver three sculptures, Balloon Venus, Eros and Diana, for which he paid $13 million
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2017· 1 entry
Accepted the annual Honorary Membership Award for Outstanding Contribution to Visual Culture from the Edgar Wind Society, University of Oxford
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2015· 3 entries
Koons faced allegations he used photographer Mitchel Gray's 1986 photo for Gordon's Gin in one of his Luxury and Degradation paintings without permission or compensation
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The oil on canvas Triple Elvis (2009) set a world auction record for a painting by the artist, selling for $8,565,000, over $5 million more than the previous high
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Koons has taken 35 masterpieces, including Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, Géricault's Raft of the Medusa and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait Wearing a Hat, had them repainted in oil on canvas, and added a little shelf, painted
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2014· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Material Boy: Jeff Koons at the Whitney
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Koons received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Wayne Thiebaud during the International Achievement Summit in San Francisco
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2013· 2 entries
Koons collaborated with American singer-songwriter and performance artist Lady Gaga for her third studio album, ARTPOP
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Koons created the sculpture Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules), which was inspired by the Farnese Hercules
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2012· 2 entries
Tulips (1995–2004) brought a record auction price for Koons at Christie's, selling to a telephone bidder for US$33
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Koons bought Advanced Stone Technologies, an offshoot of the non-profit Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture's stone division
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2010· 2 entries
Of works from the private collection of Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou at the New Museum in New York City
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Tulip designs for Kiehl's Crème de Corps, a portion of the proceeds went to the Koons Family Institute, an initiative of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
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2009· 1 entry
The giant metallic monochrome color rabbit used during the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving day parade was put on display for Nuit Blanche in the Eaton Centre in Toronto
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2008· 2 entries
The Celebration series was shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Jeff Koons started working on his Antiquity series, delving into themes of the portrayal of eros, fertility, and feminine beauty across the history of art
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2007· 1 entry
Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) from the collection of Adam Lindemann, one of five in different colors, sold at Sotheby's New York for US$23
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2006· 2 entries
Koons appeared on Artstar, an unscripted television series set in the New York art world
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Koons presented Hanging Heart, a 9-foot-tall highly polished, steel heart, one of a series of five differently colored examples, part of his Celebration series
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2005· 2 entries
Koons and fashion designer Stella McCartney recreated his signature Rabbit sculpture as a platinum necklace pendant for her eponymous brand
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Was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2002· 1 entry
Feature the cartoon figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Berliner Bär (2001).
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One of his three Michael Jackson and Bubbles porcelain sculptures sold for US$5
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Koons undertook a series of paintings, Easyfun-Ethereal, using a collage approach that combined bikinis, food, and landscapes painted under his supervision by assistants
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2000· 2 entries
Koons designed Split-Rocker, his second floral sculpture made of stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, and an internal irrigation system, which was first shown at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France
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And the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2001
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1999· 2 entries
Koons commissioned a song about himself on Momus's album Stars Forever
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Koons created the first seven paintings of the new series, Easyfun, comprising paintings and wall-mounted sculptures
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1998· 1 entry
A miniature version of Puppy was released as a white glazed porcelain vase, in an edition of 3000
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1997· 1 entry
The parisian Galerie Jerome de Noirmont organized his first solo show in Europe
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1995· 3 entries
“helped make me want to have more visibility so that my daughter could find me. I always hoped that we could reconnect.”
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And eventually took charge of the sculpture operation
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In a co-venture between Museum of Contemporary Art, Kaldor Public Art Projects and Sydney Festival, the sculpture was dismantled and re-erected at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Sydney Harbour on a new, more permanent
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1992· 1 entry
But was commissioned by three art dealers to create a piece for nearby Arolsen Castle in Bad Arolsen, Germany
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1989· 2 entries
Koons and fellow artist Martin Kippenberger worked together on an issue of the art journal Parkett; the following year, Koons designed an exhibition poster for Kippenberger
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The Whitney Museum and its guest curator Marvin Heiferman asked Koons to make an artwork about the media on a billboard for the show "Image World: Art and Media Culture"
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1988· 1 entry
With Michael Jackson and Bubbles, a series of three life-size gold-leaf plated porcelain statues of the sitting singer cuddling Bubbles, his pet chimpanzee
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1987· 1 entry
For the decennial Skulptur Projekte exhibition
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1986· 3 entries
Appeared in a group show with Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Minoru Lang and Meyer Vaisman at Sonnabend Gallery in New York
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The Luxury and Degradation series is a group of works thematically centered on alcohol
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Jeff Koons introduced the Statuary series, featuring ten pieces that reimagined his earlier inflatable series from the 1970s
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1984· 1 entry
Paravision at Postmasters Gallery in 1985, Cult and Decorum at Tibor De Nagy Gallery in 1986, Time After Time at Diane Brown Gallery in 1986, Spiritual America at CEPA in 1986, and Art at the End of the Social at The Roo
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1980· 1 entry
Became licensed to sell mutual funds and stocks and began working as a Wall Street commodities broker at First Investors Corporation
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1978· 1 entry
Began working on his Inflatables series, consisting of inflatable flowers and a rabbit of various heights and colors, positioned along with mirrors
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1977· 1 entry
And worked at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art while establishing himself as an artist
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1976· 1 entry
Koons made his way to New York City
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-01-21.
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