ALEX KATZ Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1927 Lives and works in New York Education 2000 The Cooper Union Annual Artist of the City Award 1994 Cooper Union Art School creates the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of ten paintings donated by the artist 1949-50 Studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1946-49 Studies at the Cooper Union Art School, New York Selected Solo Exhibitions 2021 Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar (upcoming) 2020 Gladstone Gallery, Roma Alex Katz - Retrospective, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Fosun Foundation, Shanghai 2019 Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz Alex Katz: Flowers, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Alex Katz / Moby Dick, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville Focus on: Alex Katz, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Alex Katz, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu Red Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Contemporary Conterpoint / Alex Katz. Water Lilies - series Homage to Monet, 2009-2010, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Bigger is Better, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz 2018 Alex Katz, curated by Jacob Proctor, Museum Brandhorst, Munich Artist Rooms, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Museum Brandhorst, Kunstareal, Munich Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Alex Katz: Coca-Cola Girls, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Alex Katz: Splits, Galeria Javier Lopez & Frances Fer, Madrid Dancers and Models, Lotte Museum of Art, Songpa-gu, Seoul Grass and Trees, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York A Life in Print, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue Cut outs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 2017 Dancers and Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Alex Katz: Black and White, Tampa Museum of art, Tampa Brand- New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Alex Katz Cut Outs: 1950s - 1980s, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Alex Katz: Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid Subway Drawings, Timoty Taylor, New York 2016 Alex Katz: small paintings and drawings 1990 - 2016, Monica De Cardenas, Milano New Landscapes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Alex Katz: Small paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland Quick Light, Serpentine Gallery, London Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago Alex Katz: Black and White, American University Museum, Washington D.C. 2015 Alex Katz at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Alex Katz: Portraits, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid This is Now, Guggenheim, Bilbao Black Paintings, Timothy Gallery, London Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York This is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Brand New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville 2014 Artist Rooms, Tate Modern, London Drawings, cartoons, paintings, Albertina, Wien 45 Years of Portraits 1969 - 2014, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Alex Katz: 70s / 80s / 90s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles Alex Katz: Red Hat, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz, Tate Modern, London 2013 Katz x Katz, Yale School of Art, New Haven Alex Katz: Summer in Maine, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid Small paintings 1987-2013, Peter Blum Gallery, New York Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz Beneath the Surface, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Portraits & Late Summer Flowers, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco Alex Katz New York/Maine, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Landscapes, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich Alex Katz: Virtual Reality, Richard Gray, Chicago Alex Katz & Felix Vallotton, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne Selections from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor and Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury 2012 Casa Nadi, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) de la Foundation Gas Natural Fenosa Alex Katz Prints, Museum of Fine Arts Boston Alex Katz: Seductive Elegance (New Portraits), Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco Colby Museum of Art, Maine Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Give Me Tomorrow, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall Essl Museum, Wien Turner Contemporary, Margate Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York 2011 Museum Ostwall, Dortmund Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover Prints, Paintings, Cutouts, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Wien Cool Prints, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main Philadelphia Museum of Art Face the Music, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York Once life in time, Galleria Javier López, Madrid 2010 Timothy Taylor, London Albertina, Wien National Portrait Gallery, London An American Way of Seeing, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve Seeing, Drawing, Making, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York 2009 Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro (MARCA), Catanzaro Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pace Wildenstein, New York 2008 Monica De Cardenas, Milano Galerie Jablonka, Berlin Subject To Reversal, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 2007 Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz One Flight Up, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Cutouts, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid Alex Katz: New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Alex Katz in European Collections, The Langen Foundation Neuss Scheringa Museum voor Realisme Paintings, studies, cartoons, Galeria Toni Tapis, Barcelona Smile, A cycle of eleven paintings from 1993-94, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York 2006 Alex Katz Paints Ada, Jewish Museum, New York The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York Woodcut and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Modern Art, Waterville Small Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Texas Gallery, Houston 2005 Monica De Cardenas, Milano First Sight. Peter Blum Gallery, New York Man in White Shirt. Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid Alex Katz in Maine. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 2004 Pinturas recientes. CAC Málaga, Málaga Stella Art Gallery, Moscow Cartoons and Paintings. Albertina Museum, Wien 2003 Small Portraits and Large Landscapes, Monica De Cardenas, Milano Flowers and Landscapes. Pace Wildenstein, New York Portraits. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Cut-outs. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 2002 In Your Face. Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn Small Paintings. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington Galerie Bernd Klüster, Munich Galeria Mario Siqueira, Braga Small Paintings, travelin exhibition: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. Travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts. Peter Blum Gallery, New York Pace Wildenstein, New York 2000 Smile Again: Paintings of the 60's. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago Regarding Alex Katz. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg Paintings of the 80's, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Monica De Cardenas, Milano 1999 Marines And More. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Works on Paper. Brent Sikkema, New York Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Change of Scene. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 1998 Twentyfive Years of Painting. The Saatchi Collection, London Portraits, Drawings, Sketches. Kulturring Sundern, Sundern Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris New Works. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin Under the Stars: American Landscape1951-1995. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires 1997 Landscapes and Figures. Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica Paintings. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne Pintura. Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga Monica De Cardenas, Milano 1996 Dawn. Peter Blum, New York Recent Paintings. Marlborough Gallery, New York Under the Stars: Landscapes1951-1995. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore,Maryland. Traveled to Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach,F; Portland Musuem of Art, Portland; Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City Alex Katz at Colby College. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville 1995 Paintings and Works on Paper. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen American Landscape. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1994 Landscapes 1954-1956. Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1993 Rubenstein/Diacono, New York 1992 Drawings 1946-1989. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville 1991 Small Paintings. Contemporary Museum, Honolulu A Drawing Retrospective. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York Traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, March; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock 1990 Paintings, Drawings and Cutouts. Orlando Museum of Art Making Faces: Self-Portraits by Alex Katz. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Traveled to The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey, J.B. Speed Art Museum of Art, New Jersey, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena 1989 Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Recent Paintings.Institute of Contemporary arts, London Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena 1988 A Print Retrospective. The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Seibu Museum of Art, The Seed Hall, Tokyo, Traveled to Nocturnal Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art 1986 Retrospective