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Alex Katz Vita

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ARTIST BIO

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July 24, 1927 Born in Brooklyn, New York

 

1946 – 1949 Studied at the Cooper Union Art School, New York 

 

1949 – 1950 Studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

 

1972 Guggenheim Scholarship

 

1994 Membership of the National Academy of Design

Visiting Professor at the Cooper Union Art School, New York

 

2000 Artist of the City Award, Cooper Union, New York

 

2001 Guest scholarship at the American Academy in Berlin

 

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy Museum, New York

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Solo Exhibitions

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  • 2024: Flower Journals, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

  • 2024: Seasons, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

  • 2020: Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor, London

  • 2019: Focus On: Alex Katz, Dallas Museum of Art

  • 2018: ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz, Tate Liverpool

  • 2017: Dancers and Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

  • 2015: Alex Katz at the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • 2015: Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine

  • 2010: Alex Katz, National Portrait Gallery, London

  • 2006: Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts

  • 1986: Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica

  • 1985: Alex Katz Paints a Picture, Cooper Union, New York

  • 1984: Alex Katz: Paintings, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

  • 1981: Alex Katz: Paintings and Drawings 1959-79, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

  • 1980: Alex Katz, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá

  • 1979: Alex Katz Retrospective, Brooklyn Museum, New York

  • 1974: Alex Katz, Marlborough Gallery, New York

  • 1969: Alex Katz, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

  • 1954: Alex Katz, Roko Gallery, New York

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Group Exhibitions

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  • 2019: On Paper, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona

  • 2015: America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

  • 2014: Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

  • 2012: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • 2011: September 11, MoMA PS1, New York

  • 2007: Not For Sale, MoMA PS1, New York

  • 1998: Pop Abstraction, Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania

  • 1982: Art and Dance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

  • 1970: 22 Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

  • 1967: A Romantic Minimalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

  • 1964: Post-Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • 1954: Tanager Gallery Exhibition, Tanager Gallery, New York

  • 1953: The 9th Street Show, Ninth Street Gallery, New York

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