Koons, Jeff

Jeff Koons

(New York, 1955-)

American sculptor, and probably one of the most famous of American avant-garde artists.

Trained at the Maryland Institute of Arts, Baltimore and the Art Institute of Chicago, this former Wall Street broker, is famous for his kitsch sculptures depicting sexual themes and Disney-based sculptures of animals. His sculptures often depict the notorious Italian porn star-turned-politician, Ilona Staller, better known as La Cicciolina, his former wife.

2005   Retrospektiv, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005   Retrospektiv, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2004   Retrospektiv Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (catalog) (solo)
2004   Jeff Koons: Highlights of Twenty-Five Years C&M Arts, New York (solo)
2004   BackyardGalerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (solo)
2004   Artists Favourites (Act 2)ICA, London (group)
2004   Monument to Now Deste Foundation, Athens (group)
2004   Close-Up - Contemporary American Art in the Astrup Fearnley Collection Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavik (group)
2004   Treasure Island Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (group)
2004   The Game Show James Cohan Gallery, New York (group)
2003   Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and LifeMori Art Museum, Tokyo (group)
2003   Heisskalt - Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff Hamburger Kunsthalle; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (group)
2003   THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: Artists using photography 1960-1982 Walker Art Center; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (group)
2003   Air James Cohan Gallery, New York (group)
2003   Hverdagsestetikk - verk fra Astrup Fearnley Samlingen Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (group)
2003   Sonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
2003   Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (solo)
2002   Jeff Koons. Bilder / Pictures 1980-2002.Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld (solo)
2002   Easyfun-Ethereal Guggenheim Museum, New York; 25th Sao Paulo Biennial (solo)
2002   Autour du Mondial Forum Grimaldi, Monaco; Gallery Hyunay and Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Séoul (solo)
2002   La Part de l'autre Carré d'Art - Musée d'art Contemporain, Nîmes (solo)
2002   ShoppingTate Liverpool, Liverpool; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (group)
2002   PenetrationMarianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (group)
2002   Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (group)
2002   Flowers: Warhol/Koons Gagosian Gallery, New York (group)
2002   Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (group)
2001   Warhol / Koons / Hirst: Cult and Culture, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection Aspen Art Museum (group)
2001   Sonnabend Gallery, New York (group)
2001   Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group)
2001   Give & Take Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (catalogue) (group)
2001   Points of Departure II: Connection with Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (group)
2001   Points of Departure II: Connection with Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (group)
2001   Jeff Koons Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (catalogue) (solo)
2001   Easyfun-Ethereal Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (solo)
2001   New Paintings Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
2000   Easyfun-Ethereal Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (catalogue) (solo)
2000   PuppyRockefeller Center, New York (public sculpture) (solo)
2000   Split-Rocker Papal Palace, Avignon (solo)
2000   Hypermental. Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 from Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; Hamburger Kunsthalle (group)
2000   Au-dela du spectacle Centre Pompidou, Paris (group)
2000   Actual Size Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2000   MoMA 2000 Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2000   MatterMuseum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2000   Pop and After Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2000   Innocence and Experience Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)
2000   Apocalypse: Beauty & Horror in Contemporary Art Royal Academy of Arts, London (group)
2000   Almost Warm and Fuzzy Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma (group)
2000   P.S.1, New York (group)
2000   Around 1984. A Look at Art in the Eighties (group)
2000   Lets Entertain Portland Museum of Art, Portland (group)
2000   Sonnabend Retrospective Sonnabend Gallery, New York (group)
2000   La Beaute Avignon, France (group)
2000   SculptureJames Cohan Gallery, New York (group)
2000   Inner Eye Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (group)
1999   A Celebration of Art 25th Anniversary of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (group)
1999   The American Century, Part II Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (group)
1999   TransmuteMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (group)
1999   Gesammelte Werke 1 - Zeitgenössische Kunst Seit 1968 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (group)
1999   HeavenKunsthalle, Düsseldorf (group)
1999   Tate Gallery, Liverpool (group)
1999   La Casa Residence of Mauro Nicoletti, Rome (catalogue) (group)
1999   L'objet photographieque 2 Galerie d'art contemporain, Mourenx (group)
1999   The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (catalogue) (group)
1999   Decades in Dialogue: Perspectives on the MCA Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (group)
1999   Art at Work: Forty Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (group)
1999   A Celebration of Art 25th Anniversary of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (group)
1999   The American Century, Part II Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (group)
1999   Transmute Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (group)
1999   Gesammelte Werke 1 - Zeitgenössische Kunst Seit 1968 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (group)
1999   EasyfunSonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
1999   Jeff Koons, A Millennium Celebration Deste Foundation, Athens (solo)
1998   Jeff Koons: Encased Works Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (solo)
1998   Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (group)
1998   L'Envers du Décor, Dimensions décoratives dans l'art du XXe siècle Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq (group)
1998   A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (group)
1998   Kunstausstellung Holderbank Holderbank Management und Beratung AG (group)
1998   Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California (group)
1998   Un monde merveilleux, Kitsch et Art Contemporain Frac Nord -Pas de Calais, Dunkerque (group)
1998   Interno - Esterno/Alterno FENDI, New York (catalogue) (group)
1998   UrbanTate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool (group)
1998   Fast Forward - Trade Marks Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (group)
1998   René Magritte and the Contemporary Art Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende (catalogue) (group)
1998   Tuning Up #5Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (group)
1998   Art in the 20th Century: Collection from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul (catalogue) (group)
1997   HospitalGalerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue) (group)
1997   Group Show The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica (group)
1997   Kunst. Arbeit Südwest LB Forum, Stuttgart (catalogue) (group)
1997   Dramatically Different Centre National D'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Genoble (catalogue) (group)
1997   A House is not a Home Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (group)
1997   On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue) (group)
1997   Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (group)
1997   Futuro Presente Passato: La Biennale di Venezia Venice, Italy (catalogue) (group)
1997   Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue) (group)
1997   Multiple Identity: Amerikanische Kunst 1975 - 1995 aus dem Whitney Museum of American Art Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (catalogue) (group)
1997   Autoportraits Galerie Municipale du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse (group)
1997   Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties The Scharpff Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue) (group)
1997   Belladonna Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (group)
1997   It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (group)
1997   PuppyGuggenheim Museum, Bilbao [permanent exhibition] (solo)
1997   Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (catalogue) (solo)

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