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).

Further reading

• The Jeff Koons Handbook (1993) by Jeff Koons ("the first monograph and primary sourcebook"), ISBN 0847816966.
• Michael Kimmelman. "Jeff Koons." The New York Times. November 29, 1991.
• Mark Stevens. "Adventures in the Skin Trade." The New Republic. January 20, 1992.
• Judd Tully. "Jeff Koons's Raw Talent: In New York, an X-rated Exhibition." The Washington Post. December 15, 1991.
• Coupland, Douglas (2001). "Jeff Koons: Getting It." Eyestorm (dealer newsletter).