Untitled

JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)  

Untitled  

signed  

lenticular print  

62 x 23 inches (157.5 x 58.4 cm)  

Executed in 2026.

Jeff Koons (b. 1955, York, Pennsylvania) is one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the contemporary era, celebrated for works that transform familiar objects into icons of aspiration, spectacle, and reflection. Since emerging in the late 1970s, Koons has consistently challenged traditional distinctions between high and popular culture, employing immaculate fabrication and industrial techniques to elevate everyday imagery into monumental works of art. Across acclaimed series such as Celebration, Easyfun-Ethereal, Popeye, and Gazing Ball, his practice explores themes of perception, desire, beauty, and transcendence, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to both the object and themselves. His mirrored surfaces, in particular, dissolve the boundary between artwork and observer, making the act of viewing an integral part of the work itself.

Executed in 2026, Untitled is a unique signed lenticular print created exclusively for the Southampton Playhouse. Composed of three distinct images the work centers on Koons's celebrated Gazing Ball motif—a recurring symbol throughout his practice in which reflective spheres capture and incorporate the surrounding environment into the artwork. As the composition transforms from one reflective ball image to the next, the lenticular medium heightens Koons's longstanding interest in perception, participation, and optical experience, while the gazing balls act as mirrors that continually fold the external world into the work.

Koons's work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at many of the world's leading museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Neue Nationalgalerie, Fondation Beyeler, and a landmark retrospective organized by Whitney Museum of American Art that traveled to the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. His work is held in the permanent collections of virtually every major museum of modern and contemporary art worldwide, underscoring his lasting impact on the history of contemporary art.