Jeff Koons

Person · Open Library

Born

1955

Works

24

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Film & TV

Acting · York, Pennsylvania, USA

Jeffrey Lynn Koons is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.

Known for

• Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty — Self2025
• The Warhol Effect — Self2024
• Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait2023
• Why Are We (Not) Creative? — Self2021
• Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible — Self - Artist2020
• Spit Earth: Who is Jordan Wolfson? — Self2020
• The Price of Everything — Self2018
• Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait — Self2017
• Jeff Koons — Self2017
• Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World — Self - Artist (archive footage)2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Belgium

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

89

Total plays

234

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

27

Cited by

26

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation

   · 2014 · cited 24,035x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,971x

3. Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

   · 2004 · cited 10,287x

4. Activating Mutations in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Underlying Responsiveness of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Gefitinib

   · 2004 · cited 9,572x

5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 9,180x

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Quotes

• “I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.”
• “Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.”
• “The basic story line (in my new work) is about art leaving the realm of the artist, when the artist loses control of the work. It’s defined basically by two ends. One would be Louis XIV — that if you put art in the hands of an aristocracy or monarch, art will become reflective of ego and decorative — and on the other end of the scale would be Bob Hope — that if you give art to the masses, art will become reflective of mass ego and also decorative.”
• “Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place (this is not a cliche!).”
• “I’m basically the idea person. I’m not physically involved in the production. I don’t have the neces-sary abilities, so I go to the top people, whether I’m working with my foundry — Tallix — or in physics. I’m always trying to maintain the integrity of the work.”
• “I'm trying to go through moral crisis myself to the highest degree that I can, to remove moral crisis from the visual vocabulary of the viewer, so that when somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of Jesus”

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Key facts

Born

Jeffrey Lynn Koons , ( 1955-01-21 ) January 21, 1955 (age 71) , York, Pennsylvania , U.S.

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art , Baltimore ( BFA )

Known for

Artist

Notable work

Rabbit (1986) Banality (1988) Puppy (1992) Balloon Dog (1994–2000)

Spouses

Ilona Staller ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 ⁠ – ⁠ 1994 ) ​ Justine Wheeler

Website

jeffkoons .com

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