Jeff KOONS
(1955~)
American object artist who uses evidence of consumer culture as starting points and alienates or imitates them | 1955 born in York, Pennsylvania | 1976 bachelor of fine arts at “Maryland Institute College of Art” in Baltimore; moves to New York City and works at the “Museum of Modern Art” (MoMA); works for six years as a commodity exchange broker on Wall Street | 1980 first solo exhibition at “New Museum of Contemporary Art” in New York | 1988 porcelain sculpture “Michael Jackson” and “Bubbles” | 2005 elected to the “American Academy of Arts and Sciences” | 2010 designs BMW Art Car | 2019 Christie’s auction house sells Koons’ sculpture “Rabbit” for 91 million US dollars
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