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Born 1927 in Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1946 – 1949
Studied at The Cooper Union, New York
1949 - 1950
Studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Gavin Brown, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Once in a Lifetime, Galería Javier López–Mário Sequeira, Madrid, Spain
Prints Paintings Cutouts, in cooperations with the Albertina, Kunsthalle Würth,
Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2010
Alex Katz: New York, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz Prints, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2009
Seeing, Drawing, Making, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, FL
Fifteen Minutes, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Reflections, Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro (MARCA), Calabria, Italy
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Traveled to Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
2008
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Alex Katz: Subject to reversal, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany
2007
Alex Katz: New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Alex Katz in European Collections, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Alex Katz Paints Ada, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
One Flight Up, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Paintings Studies Cartoons, Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Alex Katz in Maine, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Alex Katz Paints Ada, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Alex Katz: The Sixties, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Farsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Alex Katz: Man in a White Shirt, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
First Sight, Working Drawings from 1965-2002, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Editionen, Sabine Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
Alex Katz’ Collages, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME
CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain
The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2004
Alex Katz Prints 1966-2003, Galerie Christine Koenig, Vienna, Austria
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Stella Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003
Small Portraits and Large Landscapes, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milano, Italy
Flowers and Landscapes, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Portraits, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Museum Moderner Kunst Kirnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Cutouts, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
2002
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, traveling exhibition : Addison Gallery of American Art Philips Academy, Andover, MA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Oklahoma City Museum, Oklahoma City, OK; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
In Your Face, Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Alex Katz – Small Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
2001
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Addison Gallery of American Art Philips Academy, Andover, MA
Galeria Monica de Cardenas, Venice, Italy
PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Alex Katz: The Complete Woodcuts, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2000
Alex Katz Paintings of the 1980’s, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Regarding Alex Katz
Art Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Paintings of the 60’s, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1999
Change of Scene, Museum for Modern Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Alex Katz Works on Paper, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Marines And More, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1998
Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Thamm Galerie, Kusnatch- Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Katz Recent Paintings, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alex Katz New Works, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Kulturring Sundern, Sundern, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting, The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
1997
Alex Katz Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Small Paintings, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Alex Katz: Landscapes and Figures, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1996
Alex Katz: New Cutouts, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
I.V.A.M. Centro Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
Alex Katz at Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Alex Katz Under the Stars: Landscapes 1951-1995, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Alex Katz Recent Painting, Malborough Gallery, New York, NY
Alex Katz: Dawn, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL
1995
Alex Katz: Recent Work, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Alex Katz: American Landscape, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Alex Katz: Paintings and Works on Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Alex Katz: Small Drawings-Small Paintings, Malborough Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Suzanne Hillberry Gallery, Birmingham, MC
Galeria Malborough, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Landscapes 1954-1956, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Alex Katz: A Print retrospective, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
1986
Retrospective exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1954
Alex Katz: Paintings, Roko Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe, Arentshuis, Bruges, Belgium
2008
Art after 1970. From the Albertina, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2006
Essential paintings, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2005
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2004
Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Porträts - Picasso, Bacon, Warhol...
2003
Warsaw, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Schloss Ujazdowski, Von Picasso bis Warhol
Bochum, Museum Bochum, Das Recht des Bildes - Jüdische Perspektiven in der modernen Kunst
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Lieber Maler, male mir...
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York