Jeff Koons
Born 1955 in York, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in NY
education
1976 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, B.F.A.
1975-76 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1972-75 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
selected solo exhibition
2008 Kult des Künstlers: Jeff Koons - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2008 Jeff Koons - Galerie Max Hetzler - Zimmerstrasse, Berlin
2008 Jeff Koons - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles
2008 Jeff Koons - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago -
MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 Jeff Koons on the Roof - The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City, NY
2007 Jeff Koons - Hulk Elvis - Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street,
London (England)
2007 Jeff Koons - Popeye - Gagosian Gallery - Davies Street,
London (England)
2006 Jeff Koons - Gagosian Gallery - Davies Street, London (England)
2005 Jeff Koons Retrospective - Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo -
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2004 Jeff Koons - Retrospective - Astrup Fearnley Museet for
Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2004 Jeff Koons - Highlights of 25 Years - L&M Arts, New York City, NY
2004 Jeff Koons - Backyard - Galerie Max Hetzler - Holzmarktstrasse
(closed), Berlin (closed)
2002 Jeff Koons - Easyfun-Ethereal - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York City, NY
2001 Jeff Koons - Easyfun – Ethereal - Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh (Scotland)
2001 Jeff Koons - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2001 Jeff Koons - Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
2000 Jeff Koons - Easyfun - Ethereal - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
1999 Jeff Koons: a millenium celebration - Deste Foundation,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
1997 Jeff Koons - Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
1980 Jeff Koons - Mary Boone Gallery - 745 Fifth Avenue,
New York City, NY
slected group exhibitions
2008 Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection -
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 Won't Grow Up - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
2008 Présence Panchounette - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain,
Bordeaux
2008 Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley
Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2008 The Murakami-Collection - Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
2008 desing - Galerie de multiples, Paris
2008 Ganz schön ART-ig - LECKERBISSEN III - Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm
2008 Kavalierstart 1978-1982 - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2008 Prefab - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
2008 Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art - Galerie Proarta,
Zurich
2007 La vida privada - Coleccion Josep Civit - CDAN - Centro de Arte y
Naturaleza – Fundación Beulas, Huesca
2007 Collected Visions - Modern and Contemporary Works from the
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection - Pera Museum, Istanbul
2007 Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now - Barbican, London
2007 Reflection - PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
2007 Popularpop 2007 - Galería EntreArte, Santafé de Bogota
2007 The Incomplete - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
2007 Contemporary and Cutting Edge -
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT
2007 The Murakami Collection - GdK Galerie der Künste Berlin, Berlin
2007 Pop Art is... - Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London
2007 More than the World - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection -
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
2007 Fractured Figure - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection -
Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
2007 Franz West - Souffle, eine Massenausstellung - Kunstraum
Innsbruck, Innsbruck
2007 Out of Time - A Contemporary View - MoMA -
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2007 Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now - NGV National Gallery of
Victoria International, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Traum und Trauma - Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou,
Athen - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
2007 Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945 -
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
2007 Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Coll.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 Sparkle Then Fade - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2007 In Fluorescents - Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2007 Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Future, Rome
2007 Ateliers - L'artistes et ses lieux de création - Centre Pompidou -
Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
2007 Timer 01 - Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2007 Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne -
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
2007 RE-OBJECT - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2007 Not For Sale - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2006 Super Vision - ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2006 INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. -
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006 In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from
Damien Hirst’s murderme collection - Serpentine Gallery, London
2006 Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images -
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Francois Pinault Collection - A Post-Pop selection -
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2006 Extra-Ordinary - The Everyday Object in American Art -
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2006 Home: Living with Contemporary Art - Indianapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art - iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
2006 Canova und Koons - Classical Subversion - Deutsche Guggenheim,
Berlin
2006 Kapital - Kent Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 Surrealism: Then and Now - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
2006 Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today -
MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2006 Shiny - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2006 Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
2006 On Second Thought - Perry Rubenstein Gallery - 527 West 23 Str.
New York City, NY
2006 Into me / Out of me - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2006 Human Game. Winners And Loosers - Stazione Leopolda, Florence
2006 Sweet Ecstasy - Nicola von Senger AG, Zurich
2006 Der Ball ist rund – Kreis Kugel Kosmos - Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
2006 Flowers in Contemporary Art - Benaki Museum, Athens
2006 Dada's Boys - Identity and Play in Contemporary Art - Fruitmarket
Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
2006 Made in USA - Galerie de multiples, Paris
2006 Where are we going - Selections from the Francois Pinault
Collection Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2006 Ballermann - Die Ausstellung - Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-
Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
2006 Infinite Painting - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism -
Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD)
2006 The Group Sessions. Part II - Guy Hepner Contemporary, London
2006 Sculpture now - Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Miró to Warhol - Gifts from Robert H. Halff - Los Angeles
County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Group Sessions. Part I - Guy Hepner Contemporary, London
2006 Figures in the Field - Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting
from Chicago C - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA
2006 POPulence - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA),
Winston-Salem, NC
2006 Hiding in the light - Mary Boone Gallery - 541 West 24 Street,
New York City, NY
2006 LECKERBISSEN II - Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm
2006 Yellow pages artists - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
2005 Schöner Leben - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
2005 Recent acquisitions - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Nudes in Vogue - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, NY
2005 Superstars: Von Warhol bis Madonna. - BA-CA Kunstforum Wien
2005 Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna -
Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
awards and honors
2008 Honorary Doctorate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Wollaston Award 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K.
2007 Promoted the rank of Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor to
Officier by President Jacques Chirac of France
2007 Artist of the Year, American Friends of
the Tel Aviv Museum of Art & Architecture
2006 Artistic Achievement Award, Americans For The Arts
2005 Creative Patronage Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills
2005 Nominated to the American Academy for Arts and Sciences
2005 Honored by the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families
2003 Museum of Fine Arts School Medal Award, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 Membership to the Signet Society for Arts and Letters at
Harvard University
2002 Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, The Corcoran,
Washington D.C.
2002 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Arts
2002 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, nominated by Jacques Chirac
and presented by Jean-Jacques Aillagon,
President of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2000 BZ Cultural Award, City of Berlin, Germany
1999 Art Start for Children Award, Learning Through Art/
The Guggenheim Museum Children’s Program
public collections
museum:
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Groninger Museum of Art, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Germany
Wright State University Art Museum, Dayton, Ohio
FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS:
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Collection Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Koln, Germany
Donald and Mera Rubell Foundation, Miami, Florida
Daimler-Chrysler, Berlin, Germany
Dannheisser Foundation, New York, New York
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Marx Collection, Berlin, Germany
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Equitable Corporation, New York, New York
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
Nord Landesbank, Hanover, Germany
Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany
Twentieth Century Acquisitions, New York, New York