Alex KATZ

American　1927

Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Cooper Union Art School in Manhattan and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine to study art. His work has been shown in museums around the world in a frequent manner since the 1960s. Alex Katz currently lives and works between New York and Maine.

Public Collections:
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2016 “Alex Katz” Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, United States
2015 “Brand New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s”, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States
2015 “This is Now”, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States/ Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
2015 “Alex Katz at the Met”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
2014 “ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz”, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2014 “Alex Katz: Drawings, cartoons, paintings”, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2013 “Alex Katz New York/Maine”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2013 “Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, United States
2012 “Alex Katz”, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom
2012 “Alex Katz”, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
2011 “Alex Katz: Naked Beauty”, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2011 “Alex Katz”, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2010 “Alex Katz”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
2010 “Alex Katz Portraits”, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2009 “Alex Katz: Reflections”, Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
2007 “Alex Katz: New York”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2006 “Alex Katz Paints Ada”, Jewish Museum, New York, United States
2005 “Alex Katz in Maine”, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, United States
2003 “Alex Katz: Portraits”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2002 “Alex Katz: In Your Face”, Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany