Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania) is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. As a teenager he revered Salvador Dali, to the extent of visiting him in the Plaza Hotel. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting, but then worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, whilst establishing himself as an artist before recognition in the 1980s. He set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York, with over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work, in a similar mode to Andy Warhol's Factory (and, for that matter, Renaissance artists).

External links

• Examples of work, list of shows and literature
• Jeff Koons interviewed by Klaus Ottmann
• Jeff Koons - A Collection of Images
• Actual Exhibitions from Jeff Koons
• Defending Jeff Koons Short essay by Morgan Meis of 3 Quarks Daily
• Jerry Saltz reviews Jeff Koons, "Popeye," show 2003, Sonnabend Gallery, New York