Jeff Koons1955年出生于宾夕法尼亚州的约克市。他在巴尔的摩的马里兰艺术学院和芝加哥艺术学院学习，并于1976年从马里兰艺术学院获得美术学士学位。Jeff Koons现居住和工作于纽约市。

自1980年的首次个展以来，Jeff Koons的作品已经在世界各地的主要画廊和机构展出。他的作品曾是惠特尼美国艺术博物馆举办的大型回顾展《Jeff Koons：回顾展》（2014年6月27日至10月19日）的主题，该展览随后巡回至巴黎蓬皮杜中心（2014年11月26日至2015年4月27日）和毕尔巴鄂古根海姆博物馆（2015年6月9日至9月27日）。近期展览包括《Jeff Koons：绝对价值》，以及在阿什莫林博物馆、马赛 MuCEM 等地举办的展览。2021年5月19日至10月18日，《Jeff Koons：来自皮诺收藏的作品》在法国马赛展出。

Jeff Koons以其标志性的雕塑作品如《兔子》和《气球狗》而闻名，还有巨型花卉雕塑《小狗》（1992），该作品曾在洛克菲勒中心展出，并永久安装在毕尔巴鄂古根海姆博物馆。另一件花卉雕塑《分裂摇滚》（2000）曾先后在阿维尼翁教皇宫、凡尔赛宫和巴塞尔贝耶勒基金会安装展示，并最近于2014年再次出现在洛克菲勒中心。

Jeff Koons因其文化成就获得了众多奖项和荣誉。值得注意的是，他获得了宾夕法尼亚艺术委员会颁发的“杰出艺术奖”；成就学院的“金盘奖”；前法国总统雅克·希拉克将他晋升为荣誉军团军官勋章；以及国务卿希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿授予的国务院艺术勋章，以表彰他对大使馆艺术项目和国际文化交流的杰出承诺。2017年，Jeff Koons成为哥伦比亚大学Zuckerman心智脑行为研究所首位驻地艺术家，并被牛津大学Edgar Wind Society评为视觉文化杰出贡献的名誉会员。自2002年以来，Jeff Koons一直是国际失踪与受剥削儿童中心（ICMEC）的董事会成员，并与ICMEC共同创立了Koons家庭国际法律与政策研究所，旨在应对全球儿童绑架和剥削问题，保护全世界的儿童。

Jeff Koons was born in York， Pennsylvania in 1955. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976. Koons lives and works in New York City.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s work has been shown in major galleries and institutions throughout the world. His work was the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (June 27 - October 19, 2014), which traveled to the Centre Pompidou Paris (November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015) and the Guggenheim Bilbao (June 9 - September 27, 2015). Recent exchibitions include Jeff Koons: Absolute Value. Selected works from the Collection of Marie and Jose Mugrabi, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, and Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean. Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection will be on view in Marseille, France, from May 19, 2021 through October 18, 2021.

Koons is widely known for his iconic sculptures Rabbit and Balloon Dog as well as the monumental floral sculpture Puppy (1992), shown at Rockefeller Center and permanently installed at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Another floral sculpture, Split-Rocker (2000), previously installed at the Papal Palace in Avignon, Château de Versailles, and Fondation Beyeler in Basel, was most recently on view at Rockefeller Center in 2014.

Jeff Koons has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his cultural achievements. Notably, Koons received the Governor’s Awards for the Arts “Distinguished Arts Award” from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; the “Golden Plate Award” from the Academy of Achievement; President Jacques Chirac promoted Koons to Officier de la Legion d’Honneur; and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honored Koons with the State Department’s Medal of the Arts for his outstanding commitment to the Art in Embassies Program and international cultural exchange. In 2017, Koons was made the first Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and, also, made an Honorary Member of University of Oxfords Edgar Wind Society for Outstanding Contribution for Visual Culture. Koons has been a board member of The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) since 2002, and co-founded the Koons Family International Law and Policy Institute with ICMEC; for the purpose of combating global issues of child abduction and exploitation and to protect the world’s children.