Katz Alex

Bio

www.alexkatz.com

1927 was born in New York, USA

1946-1949 studied at Cooper Union, New York, USA

1949-1950 studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skouhegan, USA

Lives and works in New York, USA

Collections

Atenium Taidemuso, Helsinki

Center Georges Pompidou, Paris

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

National Portrait Gallery, Washington

Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany

Saatchi Collection, London

Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Tate Gallery, London

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Selected solo exhibitions

1974 Prints. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1986 Alex Katz. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1988 A Print Retrospective, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

1995 American Landscape. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

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

A Drawing Retrospective. Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, New York, USA

1996-1998 Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-1995. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; P. S. 1, New York, USA

1998 Twenty Five Years of Painting. Saatchi Collection, London

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

2000 Regarding Alex Katz. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, United States

2001-2003 Small Paintings. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, United States

2002 In Your Face. Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2003 Cutouts. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2004 Cartoons and Paintings. Albertina Museum, Vienna

Alex Katz in Moscow. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow

2005 Alex Katz. Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain

2006 Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005. The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Woodcuts and Linocuts. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, United States

2007 New York. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2008 Zuoz. Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy

Selected group exhibitions

1960 One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Annual Exhibition: American Painting and Sculpture.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA

1964 Recent Landscapes by Eight Americans. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1966 Amerikaanse Schilderijen Collages. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1967 Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

1969 Contemporary Portraits. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1970 Figures-Environments. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, United States

1974 19th National Print Exhibition. Brooklyn Museum, New York; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, USA

1980 Printed Art: A View of Two Decades. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980. Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

1982 A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

1984 International Masters of Contemporary Figuration. Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo

1985 Recent Acquisitions. The Tate Gallery, London

1986 Interiors and Exteriors: Contemporary Realist Prints. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

1989 Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting. Equitable Center, New York, USA

1991 Artist’s Choice: Chuck Close, Head On / The Modern Portrait. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1992 One The Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting 1952-1992. Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, United States

1996 Pintura Estadounidense, Expressionismo Abstracto. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2002-2003 Cher Peintre ... Peintures Figuratives Depuis L’ultime Picabia. Center Georges Pompidou,

Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2005 Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2006 Essential painting. National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Aspects of Humanity. Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, Sacramento, United States

2007 Kunst nach 1970. Aus der Sammlung der Albertina. Albertina Museum, Vienna

Painting Now! - Back to Figuration. Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Not For Sale. P. S. 1, New York, USA

2008 The Hands of Art. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium