Alex Katz
1927
geboren in Brooklyn, New York City | born in Brooklyn, New York City
Lebt und arbeitet in New York City und Maine | lives and works in New York City and Maine
1946-1949
Cooper Union Art School, NY, USA
1949-1950
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, USA
1972
Guggenheim GrantGrant of the Cooper Unions Professional Achievement Citation
1980
Grant of the St. Gaudens Medal in Art
2000
“Artist of the City” The Cooper Union, NY, USA
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2022
(upcoming) Alex Katz Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
(upcoming) Alex Katz, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
(upcoming) Alex Katz Collages, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
(upcoming) Alex Katz, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
2020
Alex Katz, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, ChinaAlex Katz, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
2019
Alex Katz. Water Lilies - Homage to Monet series, 2009-2010, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
Alex Katz, Brandhorst Museum, München, Deutschland
Alex Katz, Galeria Monica de Cardenas Zuoz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Focus On: Alex Katz, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Alex Katz / Moby Dick, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Alex Katz: Red Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Alex Katz: Bigger Is Better, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Alex Katz, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea 2018
Alex Katz: Brand New & Terrific, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Artist Rooms: Alex Katz, Tate Liverpool, UK
Alex Katz: Coca Cola Girls, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
Alex Katz: SPLITS, Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Grass and Trees, Richard Gray Warehouse, Chicago, IL
Alex Katz: Models & Dancers, LOTTE Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Alex Katz: A Life in Print, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Alex Katz: Cut Outs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Alex Katz, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Alex Katz: People & Places, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
2017/2018
SMALL PAINTINGS, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017
Alex Katz: Black and White, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Alex Katz: Dancers and Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Alex Katz: Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Alex Katz Cut Outs: 1950s - 1980s, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
Alex Katz: Endless Summer, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Alex Katz: Quick Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz: Black and White, American University Museum, Washington D.C.
Alex Katz: Small Paintings and Drawings, 1990 – 2016, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Alex Katz: New Landscapes, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY 2015-2016 Alex Katz at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Alex Katz, This Is Now, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2015
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
Alex Katz: THIS IS NOW, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
2014
Drawings, Cartoons, Paintings, Albertina Museum, Wien, Österreich
2014/2015
Artists room: ALEX KATZ, Tate Modern, London, UK
2013
Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1987-2013, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor,New York
Alex Katz: Beneath the Surface, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Alex Katz / Félix Vallotton, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alex Katz: Maine/New York, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria Alex Katz: Landscapes, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Alex Katz, Colby Museum, Maine
Alex Katz, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, Great Britain
Alex Katz, MFA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Alex Katz: on elephant’s breath, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Alex Katz, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Alex Katz, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Alex Katz – Prints, Paintings, Cutouts, Kunsthalle Würth, Schäbisch Hall, Germany
Alex Katz – Cool Prints, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Alex Katz, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York
Face The Music, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Saltzburg, Austria
2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PhiladelphiaTimothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz: Prints, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2009
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France Seeing, Drawing, Making, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
Musee Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
2008
Seeing, Drawing, Making, The Gallery at Windsor, Florida Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2007
Smile, Peter Blum, New YorkGalleria Monica De Cardenas, Zouz, Switzerland One Flight Up, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz: Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria Alex Katz: Paintings, studies, cartoons, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Cutouts: Alex Katz, Galleria Javier López, Madrid, Spain Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
Early Paintings from The Farnsworth Museum of Art, The Gallery at the Park Bank, New York
Alex Katz: New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Woodcuts and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Modern Art, Waterville, ME
Alex Katz Small Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany Alex Katz in European Collections, The Langen Foundation, Germany; Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Holland The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005, Jewish Museum, New York
Alex Katz: New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
Alex Katz, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005
First Sight Working drawings from 1965 to 2002, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Monica de Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy CAC Malaga, Spain The University of South of Florida, Tampa, Florida
Collages, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group Exhibitions (selection)
2021
Portraits, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2020
30 Years in Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France
2019
Winter Garden, Lyndsey Ingram, London, England Winter Selections: Prints & Drawings, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Masters: Twentieth Century Prints, The Haggins Museum, Stockton, CA
Art at The Alfond Inn, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Figures & Flowers, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Slab City Rendevous, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Collection of the Fondation: A Vision for Painting, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
2018
Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Like a Face, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Hiroshima, Japan
Warhol to Richter, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Like a Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie e.K., Bielefeld, Germany1960s: A Survey of the Decade, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Quel Amour!?, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
The Portrait: Gstaad, Galeria Javier López & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain
Collecting Contemporaries: Recent Acquisitions from the Koch and Wolf Collections, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
From Muse and Myth to Figure and Gesture: 50 Years of Prints from the Permanent Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Il Mondo Botanico, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Under the Night Sky, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
Blue Chip: Printmaking Masters, Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington D.C.
Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
IT’S PERSONAL, Edward Ressle, New York, NY
WOW!, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Rosenbaum Contemporary: Bal Harbour, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Bal Harbour, FL
2017
America! America! How real is real?, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Aging Pride, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Top of the pop, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pop Pictures People, The Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Charity Exhibition, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Villa Kast, Austria
Women, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, New York, NY
2014
Face Value, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Irving Sandler: Out on Tenth Street and into the 1960s, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
The Sea, Mu.ZEE, Ostende, Belgium
2013
Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery and UNTITLED, New York
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2011
September 11, MoMA PS1, New York
2010
Luc Tuymans: A vision of Central Europe. The reality of the lowest rank,Brugge Centraal, Brugges, Belgium, curated by Luc Tuymans
2007
Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection, The Albertina, Vienna
2006
Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Back to the Figure: Contemporary Painting, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Germany
Surface Broken, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2005
Paint the City, B-bar and Grill, New York
Sammlungen
Museum Brandhorst, Germany
Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, USA
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Spain
Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Des Moines Art Center, USA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, USA
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum Frieder Burda, Germany
Museum of Centemporary Art – North Miami (MOCA), USA
National Gallery of Canada, Canada
Sammlung Essl – Kunsthaus, Austria
Tate Britain, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
UBS Art Collection, USA
and more
Preise | Awards
2007
Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy Museum, New York
2005
Awarded honorary doctorate, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
2001
„Phillip Morris Distinguished Artist“, American Academy, Berlin
1987
"Queens Museum of Art Award" for lifetime achievement
1978
U.S. government award for participation in educational and cultural exchange with Russia
1972
„John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Painting“