Creator story
Surprising fact
His Rabbit, a mirror-polished steel bunny, sold for $91 million — a record for a living artist at the time.
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Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons (born 1955) is among the most famous and divisive living artists, known for giant, mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures of balloon animals and kitsch icons. His work blurs high art and consumer culture.
Koons turned banal, shiny consumer imagery into record-breaking high art, embodying the spectacle of the contemporary market.
- A leading Neo-pop artist of shiny, oversized everyday objects.
- His balloon animals in steel became icons of the art market.
- His Rabbit set a record for a living artist.
Key works
A key work by Jeff Koons
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1994
Balloon Dog
Balloon Dog is one of Jeff Koons's defining works.