Alex Katz

Alex Katz

1927 Born July 24 in Brooklyn, New York.    

1928 Moves to St. Albans, Queens.    

1946-49 Studies at The Cooper Union, New York.    

1949-50 Studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.    

1954 First one-person show at Roko Gallery, New York.    

1955 Makes first collages.    

1968 Moves to present home and studio in New York.    

1974Alex Katz Prints, a traveling exhibition organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art.     1986Alex Katz, a traveling retrospective exhibition organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art.    

1988Alex Katz: A Print Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.    

1995Alex Katz: American Landscape at Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany.    

1996Alex Katz at I.V.A.M. Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain. Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, a traveling exhibition at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York. Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes

1951-1995, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum.    

1998Alex Katz: Twenty-Five Years of Painting at The Saatchi Collection, London, England, January 15 - April 12.    

1999Alex Katz at Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy, November - January.     2000Regarding Alex Katz at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, July 15 - September 10.     2001Alex Katz Small Paintings traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.    

2002Alex Katz- In Your Face at Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany, May 9 - August 18.    

2003Alex Katz - Cutouts at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, February 13 - April 27.     2004Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings at the Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2004 - February 20, 2005.    

2005Alex Katz at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain, March 4 - June 12. Alex Katz' Collages at the Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, June 27 - September 28.    

2006Alex Katz in Maine traveling exhibition organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Alex Katz: The Sixties at PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, April 27 - June 17. Alex Katz in European Collections at Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, September 3 - January 28. Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005 at The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 27, 2006 - March 18,

2007. Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, October 12, 2006 - January 28, 2007.     2007Alex Katz: New York at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, February 27 - May 20.    

2008Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making traveling exhibition organized by The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida.    

2009Alex Katz: An American Way Of Seeing traveling exhibition organized by the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Musée Grenoble, Grenoble and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany.    

2010Alex Katz Portraits at The National Portrait Gallery, London, May 13 - September 21. Alex Katz Prints at the Albertina, Vienna, May 28 - September 19. Alex Katz: New Works at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, June 12 - December 31. Alex Katz: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts at the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, October 5, 2010 - April 3,

2011. Alex Katz at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, December 16, 2010 - December 11, 2011.