Jeff Koons in Matt Black's Reflections series at Jeffrey ' Jeff' Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an artist known for working with subjects and his reproductions of objects—such as produced in with - surfaces. He lives and works in both and his hometown of,. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least one world record price for a work by a living artist. On November 12, 2013, Koons's Balloon Dog (Orange) sold at Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York City for US$58.4 million, above its high US$55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. The price topped Koons's previous record of US$33.7 million and the record for the most expensive living artist, held by, whose 1968 painting, Domplatz, Mailand, sold for US$57.1 million at on May 14, 2013. Balloon Dog (Orange) was one of the first of the Balloon dogs to be fabricated, and had been acquired by Greenwich collector in the late 1990s. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons.

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Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as, crass, and based on cynical self-merchandising.

Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works, nor any critiques. Main article: Koons then moved on to the series. For this project he engaged workshops in and that had a long tradition of working in,, and.

The series culminated in 1988 with Michael Jackson and Bubbles, a series of three life-size gold-leaf plated statues of the sitting, his pet chimpanzee. Three years later, one of these sold at New York for US$5.6 million. Admiral Sewing Machine Serial Numbers on this page. Two of these sculptures are now at the and Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) in downtown Los Angeles. The statue was included in a 2004 retrospective at the in which traveled a year later to the. It also featured in his second retrospective at the, in 2008.

The statue is currently back at the newly opened at in. [ ] Anticipating a less than generous critical response to his 1988 Banality series exhibition, with all of his new objects made in an edition of three, allowing for simultaneous, identical shows at galleries in New York, Cologne, and Chicago, Koons devised the Art Magazine Ads series (1988–89). Placed in,,, and Art News, the ads were designed as promotions for his own gallery exhibitions. Koons also issued Signature Plate, an edition for magazine, with a photographic decal in colors on a porcelain plate with gold-plated rim. Arts journalist Arifa Akbar reported for that in 'an era when artists were not regarded as 'stars', Koons went to great lengths to cultivate his public persona by employing an image consultant'. Featuring photographs by Matt Chedgey, Koons placed 'advertisements in international art magazines of himself surrounded by the trappings of success' and gave interviews 'referring to himself in the third person'. Made in Heaven series [ ] In 1989 the and its guest curator asked Koons to make an artwork about the media on a billboard for the show 'Image World: Art and Media Culture'.

The billboard was meant as an advertisement for an unmade movie, entitled Made in Heaven. Koons employed his then-wife (') as a model in the shoot that formed the basis of the resulting work for the Whitney, Made in Heaven (1990–91). Including works with such titles as Dirty Ejaculation and Ilonaʼs *******, the series of enormous grainy photographs printed on canvas, glassworks, and sculptures portrayed Koons and Staller in highly explicit sexual positions and created considerable controversy. The paintings of the series reference art from the and periods—among others,, and —and also draw upon the breakthroughs of early modern painters as and.

The series was first shown at the 1990. Koons reportedly destroyed much of the work when Staller took their son Ludwig with her to Italy. In celebration of Made in Heaven's 20th anniversary, Luxembourg & Dayan chose to present a redux edition of the series.

The Whitney Museum also exhibited several of the photographs on canvas in their 2014 retrospective. Balloon Dog (Magenta), 1994–2000, mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 121 × 143 × 45 in. (307.3 × 363.2 × 114.3 cm),. One of five unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Orange, Red, Yellow).