Jeff Koons Hon RA (b. 1955)
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. Koons lives and works in New York City.
Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s work has been shown in major galleries and institutions throughout the world. His Celebration sculptures were the subject of exhibitions on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Château de Versailles opened its doors to a living artist for the first time with Jeff Koons: Versailles. The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the most comprehensive survey of Koons’s career to date in 2014, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which traveled to Centre Pompidou Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Koons earned renown for his public sculptures, such 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 Basel, was most recently on view at Rockefeller Center in 2014.
Jeff Koons has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his cultural achievements. Notably, Koons received the Governor’s Awards for the Arts “Distinguished Arts Award” from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; the “Golden Plate Award” from the Academy of Achievement; President Jacques Chirac promoted Koons to Officier de la Legion d’Honneur; and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honoured Koons with the State Department’s Medal of the Arts for his outstanding commitment to the Art in Embassies Program and international cultural exchange. Koons has been a board member of The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) since 2002, and co-founded 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.
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Elected Hon RA: 16 March 2010
Gender: Male
Contact information:
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Preferred media: Painting and Sculpture
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Gallery
![Jeff Koons Hon RA, New Hoover Convertible]()
Jeff Koons Hon RA, New Hoover Convertible, 1980.
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Jeff Koons Hon RA, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. JK 241 Series), 1985.
![Jeff Koons Hon RA, Rabbit]()
Jeff Koons Hon RA, Rabbit, 1986.
![Jeff Koons Hon RA, Michael Jackson and Bubbles]()
Jeff Koons Hon RA, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988.
![Jeff Koons Hon RA, Puppy]()
Jeff Koons Hon RA, Puppy, 1992.
![Installation image of works from the Antiquity series works on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27- October 19, 2014]()
Installation image of works from the Antiquity series works on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27- October 19, 2014
![Installation image of the Gazing Ball sculptures on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27- October 19, 2014]()
Installation image of the Gazing Ball sculptures on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27- October 19, 2014
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Gallery
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Selected forthcoming exhibitions
2016 Jeff Koons: Balloon Venus (Orange), Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Last Year in Marienbad, A Film as Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
A Brief History of the Future, Louvre Museum, Paris
2015 Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jeff Koons in Florence, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
*Civilization and Its Discontents: SAIC Alumni Exhibition, Selections from 1985–2015, Sullivan Galleries – School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois -
Selected collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Groninger Museum of Art, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Germany
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Foundations and corporations
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Collection Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Koln, Germany
The Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida
Daimler-Chrysler, Berlin, Germany
Dannheisser Foundation, New York, New York
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Equitable Corporation, New York
Fondation Louis Vuitton Por la Creation, Paris
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Foundation Asher Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland
Foundation Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Francois Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art
Lambert Art Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Murderme Collection, London
Nord Landesbank, Hanover, Germany
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany
Twentieth Century Acquisitions, New York
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