Gagosian have just announced that Jeff Koons is now represented by the gallery. Koons returns after four years away at Pace.
Challenging borders between mass culture, the history of art, and spectacle to produce contemporary icons, Koons is one of the most influential artists working today. Over two decades, Gagosian has staged thirteen solo exhibitions by Koons in Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, London, and New York. The gallery has shown sculptures and paintings from defining series, including Celebration (1994–2019), Easyfun–Ethereal (2000–02), Popeye (2002–13), Hybrid (2003–13), Hulk Elvis (2004–), Antiquity (2008–), and Gazing Ball (2012–). In 2014, Gagosian presented Split-Rocker (2000) at Rockefeller Center, New York, a monumental sculpture covered with over fifty thousand flowering plants, coinciding with Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
About the artist
Jeff Koons (b. 1955, York, Pennsylvania) emerged in the 1980s with works that redefined the readymade for a media-saturated age. Declaring his aim to “communicate with the masses,” he transforms everyday objects, art-historical references, and pop-cultural icons into luminous sculptures and tableaux that oscillate between intimacy and spectacle.
From mirror-polished balloon animals and the floral Puppy (1992, Guggenheim Bilbao) to the hyperreal forms of Celebration (1994–2019), Koons elevates the familiar into emblems of desire, joy, and transcendence. His Banality and Made in Heaven series confronted celebrity and sexuality, while later projects—Easyfun-Ethereal, Popeye, Hulk Elvis, and Gazing Ball—layer imagery from advertising, cartoons, and classical art into playful yet metaphysical reflections on continuity and culture.
Major public commissions, including Bouquet of Tulips (2016–19, Paris), Seated Ballerina (2017, Rockefeller Center), and Dugong (2020–22, Doha), amplify his fascination with monument, myth, and shared experience. A 2014 Whitney retrospective, which traveled to Paris and Bilbao, confirmed his place as one of the most visible and debated artists of his generation
