Alex Katz

Artist biography:

Born: 1927, New York

Alex Katz studied at The Cooper Union in New York and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His first solo show was at the Roko Gallery in New York in 1954. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from Colby College in 1984 and was again recognized in 1996, when the Katz Wing opened at Colby College Museum of Art.

Katz's work has been the subject of nearly 200 solo exhibitions internationally since 1954. In 1986, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a major retrospective of his work, and in 1988, the Brooklyn Museum of Art held another retrospective, this one devoted to his printmaking. Major exhibitions of Katz's landscape and portrait painting in America and Europe followed his 1986 Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective and 1988 print retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. These exhibitions include: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1995), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (1996), P.S. 1/Institute for Contemporary Art, New York (1997-1998), the Saatchi Gallery, London (1998), Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento (1999), and Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2002).

Alex Katz's work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 90 91 40