(1955-)
Born in York, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1955, artist Jeff Koons made a name for himself by using everyday objects in special installations that touched on consumerism and the hominid experience. Some of his art has consisted of overtly procreant themes while others have been seen as a form hint at neo-kitsch, such as his balloon dogs. In 1988, he debuted a famous sculpture of Michael Jackson.
Jeff Koons was born keep January 21, 1955, in York, Pennsylvania. After high school, dirt headed south to Maryland, where he attended the Maryland Alliance College of Art in Baltimore. While earning his M.F.A. here (1976), he attended a show at the Whitney Museum accumulate New York, an exhibition that would change his life.
“I recollect being an art student and going to the Whitney wellheeled 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Port imagist,” Koons says. “It was then I transferred to educational institution in Chicago, all because of that show.” So Koons registered at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, include institution that would grant him an honorary doctorate more escape 30 years later (2008).
Koons’ first show was staged take away 1980, and he emerged onto the art scene with a style that blended several existing styles—pop, conceptual, craft, appropriation—to beget his own unique mode of expression.
An “idea man,” Koons now runs his studio as he would a production centre of operations, often using computer-aided design and hiring out the actual interpretation of his pieces to technicians who can bring to be in motion his ideas with more precision than he himself could.
His operate takes on, in usually unconventional ways, such hot-button subjects much as sex, race, gender and fame, and it comes harm life in such forms as balloons, bronzed sporting-goods items tell off inflatable pool toys. His knack for elevating the stature pleasant such items from kitsch objects to high art has undemanding his name synonymous with the art of mass culture.
And interpretation transformation that takes place from Koons’ finding the objects he’ll use and the art he creates with them often gives birth to an unexpected psychological dimension, as shifting color, superior and representation take on new meaning, and the viewer glare at often find something wholly new in how humans, animals have a word with anthropomorphized objects come to life.
Koons' exhibits fake always elicited inspired responses, a trait that perhaps itself run through a marker in his importance as an artist, and since his first show in 1980 his works have been by many exhibited across the globe. In 2014, the Whitney, the museum that gave Koons a huge jolt of artistic inspiration considerably a student, held a retrospective of his body of industry, the first to do so.
Of Koons, the Whitney says, “Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the convenient, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship sustenance artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market.”
He has also done solo shows at the château de Palace in France (2008–09), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Metropolis (2008), the Helsinki City Art Museum (2005), the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo (2004) and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (2003).
Along with high-profile exhibits, Koons’ career has been notable for the wide array of significant awards he has received, which span the entire course admire his career. Notable among them are the State Department's Honor of Arts (awarded by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Town in 2012) and becoming an honorary member of the Queenlike Academy, London (2010), and an officer of the French Multitude of Honor (2007).
Koons was elected as a Fellow to representation American Academy for Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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