Biography

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 (Roko Gallery, New York)

1955
Makes first collages

1968
Moves to present home and studio in New York

1974
Alex Katz Prints, a traveling exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art

1986
Alex Katz, a traveling retrospective exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art

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

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

1996
Alex Katz at I.V.A.M. Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain

1996
Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, a traveling exhibition at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York

1996-98
Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-1995, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, opens at the Baltimore Museum of art; traveling to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Florida; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; and P.S. 1 Museum, New York

1998
Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting at The Saatchi Collection, London, England

1999 Alex Katz at Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.

2000 Regarding Alex Katz at Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh.

2001 Alex Katz Small Paintings at Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover.

2002 Alex Katz Small Paintings
at Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover.
at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
at Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, March 22-June 2
at Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
at The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, February 15-May 4 2003
2002 Alex Katz- In Your Face
Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik, Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, May 9-August 18

2003 Alex Katz - Cutouts
Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg, Germany

2004 Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings
Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2004- February 20, 2005

2005 Alex Katz
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Malaga, Spain, March 4- June12
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, December 3, 2004 – March 6, 2005

2005 Alex Katz' Collages
Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, June 27- September 28

2005 Alex Katz in Maine
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, July 2- October 16

2006 Alex Katz: The Sixties
Pacewildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, April 27 - June 17, 2006
Alex Katz in Maine
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, June 24 - September 3, 2006
Alex Katz in European Collections
Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, September 3 - January 28, 2007
Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 27, 2006 - March 18, 2007
Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, October 12, 2006 - January 28, 2007

2007 New York
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, February 27 - May 20, 2007

2009 Alex Katz: An American Way Of Seeing
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Musée Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany

2010 Alex Katz: New Work
June 12-December 31
Farnsworth Art Museum
Rockland, Maine
Alex Katz Prints
May 28-September, 19
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Alex Katz
May 13-September 21
National Portrait Gallery, London