2025
Illustrator and sculptor Bjørn Okholm Skaarup brings vibrant life to his contemporary art through a parade of joyfully imaginative animalistic figures. These creatures are often depicted in anthropomorphic poses, such as a cheetah riding a scooter or a rhino dressed as a harlequin.
Okholm Skaarup was born in 1973 in Rudkøbing, Denmark. In 1994, he began working at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. In 2004, he moved to Florence, Italy, to study the work of the Renaissance masters and learn large-scale bronze casting. He received a PhD in 2009 from the European University Institute.
Now based in New York City, Okholm Skaarup builds on elements of art history in his work, as seen in his numerous renditions of the Hippo Ballerina, which is a whimsical take on Edgar Degas’s The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer with an enthusiastic nod to Disney. Many of his artworks contain a mischievous twist, like his bronze sculpture of a lion with a crown on his head, riding a rocking horse instead of a majestic stallion.
Okholm Skaarup is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and has exhibited his works at many notable venues, including the Koldinghus Museum in Kolding, Denmark, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence and the Hotel Cipriani in Venice.
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The Frog
By Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9 Danish, b. 1973 Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Institute in Fl...
Bronze
Victory Lap!
By Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition 2/9 White pedestal not included Artist Statement: Inspired by the 1840 “Broken Mast Monument” in Sag Harbor’s Oakland Cemetery – commemorating numerous ships that were crus...
Bronze
Leda and the Swan, Ed. 1/9
By Reuben Nakian
Located in Greenwich, CT
Classical mythology is fraught with stories of sexual misdeeds by Zeus, King of the Gods. Often Zeus would fall in love with a mortal woman and then transform himself into an animal ...
Bronze
Crane
By Jane DeDecker
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a figure balancing on their hands with their legs bent in the air. Ed. 4/17
Bronze
Rhino Strongman
By Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
Bronze
Teamwork, large
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1958 Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years of working in business, Rennert was inspired to ex...
Bronze, Steel
Sea Turtle Serenade
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 5/30. Original bronze bell sculpture by artist James Moore. Inscribed.
Bronze
Resin Turtle
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique Resin turtle.
Resin
Sea Turtle Serenade
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 9/30
Bronze
"In My Dreams I Can Fly, " Sculpture
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
Bill Starke's "In My Dreams I Can Fly" is a limited edition, cast and patinated aluminum sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a male figure free falling through the air. ( 3/99 ) Note: Images 4 and 5 depict additional available patinas. About the artist: Human beings interacting, colliding, cooperating, striving, & achieving are the themes I wish to portray in my sculptures. My observations on the human condition are meant to be both humorous and thought provoking. Bill Starke's "Free Man" is everything that good art should be: technically superb, brilliantly composed, emotionally powerful and visually arresting... like George Stubbs, the 18th century English...
Other Medium
Takioaka by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze black sculpture of a turtle
By Jacques Owczarek
Located in Paris, FR
Takioaka is a sculpture by French contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek. This turtle in bronze takes shape through a series of lines, edges and curves. Jacques Owczarek discovered sc...
Bronze
Roofvogel met vis no. 2 Bird of Prey with Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Roofvogel met vis no. 2 Bird of Prey with Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor at th...
Bronze
