BIOGRAFIE
1955 | born in York, PA |
1972 - 1975 | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
1975 - 1976 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
1976 | BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2019 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom |
2018 | Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway Gagosian Gallery, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, New York Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24th Street, New York, New York De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia |
2017 | Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California |
2016 | Almine Rech Gallery, London, England Newport Street Gallery, London, England Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2015 | Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21st Street, New York, New York Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Norwich Castle Museums & Art Gallery, Norwich, England Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, New York |
2014 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Centre Pompidou, Paris Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Providence, Rhode Island, UK Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, USA Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA Stonescape, Napa, Italy Pinault Collection, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco |
2014 | The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Rockefeller Center, New York |
2013 | Brighton Museum and Gallery, Brighton, England Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24th Street, New York, New York David Zwirner Gallery, New York, New York |
2012 | Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland |
2011 | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2010 | Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, New York Galerie de Noirmont, Paris, France Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York Conservatory, Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, England |
2009 | Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California Serpentine Gallery, London, England |
2008 | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany Château de Versailles, Versailles, France Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York |
2007 | Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England |
2006 | Gagosian Gallery, London, England Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England 7 World Trade Center, New York, New York |
2005 | Lever House, New York, New York Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
2004 | Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway C&M Arts, New York, New York Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany |
2003 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy |
2002 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany York College, York, Pennsylvania Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Musée d'art Contemporain, Nîmes, France 25th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Séoul, Korea |
2001 | Guggenheum Museum Bilbao, Bilbao Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
2000 | Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany Rockefeller Center, New York, New York Papal Palace, Avignon, France |
1999 | Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York |
1998 | Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England |
1997 | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France |
1995 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
1994 | Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England |
1993 | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark |
1992 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland Gramo Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
1991 | Christophe Van de Weghe, Brussels, Belgium Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany |
1989 | Galerie ‘t Venster, organized by Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
1988 | Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
1987 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1986 | International With Monument Gallery, New York, New York Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1985 | International With Monument Gallery, New York, New York Feature Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
1980 | New Museum, New York, New York |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2018 | Honoree at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Gala, Washington, D.C. Honoree at the Art Production Fund’s Upbeat Benefit, New York, NY |
2017 | Guest Editor-in-Chief, Die Welt Newspaper, Eighth Special Art Edition Supplement, Berlin, Germany Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania Made an Honorary Member of University of Oxford's Edgar Wind Society for Outstanding Contribution for Visual Culture, Oxford, England First Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute |
2016 | French Institute Alliance Française's Trophée des Arts Gala Honored Jeff Koons with the Trophée des Arts Award, New York, NY Threw ceremonial first pitch at York Revolution baseball game. Jeff Koons bobble heads were given away to 1,500 fans during the “Celebrate York” series, commemorating their 10th anniversary season, York, Pennsylvania |
2015 | Honoree at Royal Academy America Gala, An 'RAted' Evening, New York, NY Honoree at the Riverkeeper’s Annual Fishermen’s Ball, New York, NY Presented keys to the city of Florence by mayor Dario Nardella at Palazzo Vecchio’s grand Sala dell’Udienza, Florence, Italy Honoree at the National YoungArts Foundation's YoungArts Backyard Ball, Miami, Florida |
2014 | Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, 51st Annual International Achievement Summit, San Francisco, California Honoree at the Citizens’ Committee for Children event, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York |
2013 | State Department's Medal of Arts awarded by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Art in Embassies, Washington D.C. |
2012 | Honoree at the Hermitage Museum Foundation's Annual Gala, The Hermitage Museum Foundation and Phillips de Pury, New York, New York Honoree at the Annual Spring Benefit, Friends of the High Line, New York, New York |
2011 | Lotus Award of Distinction, The Lotus Club, New York, New York Icon of Artistic Excellence Award, The Black Alumni of Pratt, Celebration of the Creative Spirit Benefit Dinner, New York, New York Voice of Art Award, FEGS, New York, New York Artist Icon Award in the Arts, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut |
2010 | Made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom Unveiling of RxArt Jeff Koons CT Scanner installation at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital, Oak Lawn, Illinois |
2009 | Received the award in the best "Exhibition Outside the United States" category for Jeff Koons Versailles, Rob Pruitt's First Annual Arts Awards, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York The John Singleton Copley Award, The American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York, New York National Arts Club Medal of Honor, New York, New York Maryland Institute College of Art Alumni Medal of Honor, Baltimore, Maryland Governor's Awards for the Arts Distinguished Arts Award, York, Pennsylvania |
2008 | Honorary Doctorate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Wollaston Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom |
2007 | The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, along with The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, developed the Koons Family International Law and Policy Institute for the purpose of combating global issues of child abduction and exploitation Promoted by President Jacques Chirac from Chevalier to Officier of the French Legion of Honor for his ongoing strengthening of relations between France and the United States Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art & Architecture, New York, New York |
2006 | Artistic Achievement Award, Americans For The Arts, Washington, D.C. |
2005 | Creative Patronage Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Elected to the American Academy for Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts Honored by the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, Brooklyn, New York |
2003 | Museum of Fine Arts School Medal Award, Boston, Massachusetts |
2002 | Appointed to the Board of Directors, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia Inducted to the Signet Society for Arts and Letters at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Received a Doctorate of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, from The Corcoran, Washington, D.C. Global Vision Award, Second Annual Hope Awards, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia Awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Arts, New York, New York |
2001 | Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, nominated by President Jacques Chirac and presented by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, President of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
2000 | BZ Cultural Award from the City of Berlin, Germany |
1999 | Art Start for Children Award, Learning Through Art/The Guggenheim Museum Children’s Program, New York, New York |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois City of Sacramento, California Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa FRAC- Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Groninger Museum of Art, The Netherlands Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin, Germany The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRE), Naples, Italy Museum Jumez, Mexico City, Mexico Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbonne, Portugal Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tate Gallery, London, England Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Germany Wright State University Art Museum, Dayton, Ohio FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS The Brant Foundation, Greenwich Connecticut 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 Dannheisser Foundation, New York, New York Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California Equitable Corporation, New York, 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 Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland Lambert Art Collection, Geneva, Switzerland Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California Murderme Collection, London Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany Twentieth Century Acquisitions, New York, New York Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine |