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Alex Katz

(American, born 1927)

Alex Katz

Purple Tulips 1, 2021

16,000 EUR

Alex Katz

Purple Tulips 2, 2021

16,000 EUR

Alex Katz

Goldenrod, 2021

16,000 EUR

Alex Katz

Peonies, 2021

16,000 EUR

Alex Katz

Red Dogwood 2, 2021

16,000 EUR

Alex Katz

Porcelain Beauty 1, 2021

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Biography

Timeline

1927: Born in Brooklyn, NY
1928: Moved to St. Albans, Queens
1946 - 1949: Studied at the Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY
1949 - 1950: Studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Showhegan, ME
1968: Moved to present home and studio in New York
1972: Guggenheim Fellowship
: Cooper Union Professional Achievement Citation
1980: St. Gaudens Medal in Art
1994: Cooper Union Art School creates the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of 10 paintings donated by the artist
1996: Einweihung des The Paul J. Schupf Wing für die Arbeiten des Künstlers im Colby College. Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
2000: Artist of the City, Cooper Union, New York City, NY
2001: Visiting Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
: lives and works in New York

Exhibitions

2019: Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz (solo)
: Alex Katz: Flowers, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Roma (solo)
: Alex Katz / Moby Dick, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville (solo)
: Focus on: Alex Katz, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York (solo)
: Alex Katz, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu (solo)
: Red Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
: Contemporary Conterpoint / Alex Katz. Water Lilies - series Homage to Monet, 2009-2010 (solo)
: Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (solo)
: Bigger is Better, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (solo)
: Cut outs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
: A Life in Print, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue (solo)
: Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York (solo)
: Dancers and Models, Lotte Museum of Art, Songpa-gu, Seoul (solo)
: Grass and Trees,Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo)
2018: Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (solo)
: Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton (solo)
2017: Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (solo)
: Alex Katz: Black and White, Tampa Museum of art, Tampa (solo)
: Brand- New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (solo)
: Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid (solo)
: Subway Drawings, Timoty Taylor, New York (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
: Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2016: Alex Katz: small paintings and drawings, Monica de Cardenas, Milano (solo)
: New Landscapes, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
: Alex Katz: Small paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art (solo)
2015: Brand New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA (solo)
: This is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
: Black Paintings, Timothy Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: This is Now, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
: Alex Katz: Portraits, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Alex Katz at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
: Artist Rooms, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
: Drawings, cartoons, paintings, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: 45 Years of Portraits 1969 - 2014, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Alex Katz: Red Hat, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2014: ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
: Selections from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (solo)
: Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA (solo)
: Alex Katz & Felix Vallotton, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
: Landscapes, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
: Alex Katz New York/Maine, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2013: Small paintings 1987-2013, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2012: Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
: Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (solo)
: Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, UK (solo)
: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Colby Museum, Maine, UK (solo)
: Alex Katz Prints, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA (solo)
: Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
: Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Wien, Austria (solo)
: Cool Prints, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
: Face the Music, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2011: Once life in time, Galleria Javier López, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (solo)
2010: Seeing, Drawing, Making, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA (solo)
: An American Way of Seeing, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany(solo)
: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Albertina, Wien, Austria (solo)
: Timothy Taylor, London, UK (solo)
: Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro (MARCA), Catanzaro, Italy (solo)
: Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, USA (solo)
2009: Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2008: Subject To Reversal, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
: Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
: One Flight Up, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
: Cutouts, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Alex Katz: New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
: Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, The Netherlands (solo)
: Paintings, studies, cartoons, Galeria Toni Tapis, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2007: Smile, A cycle of eleven paintings from 1993-94, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA (solo)
: Alex Katz in European Collections, The Langen Foundation Neuss, Germany (solo)
: Alex Katz Paints Ada, Jewish Museum, New York (solo)
2006: New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
: Small Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Woodcut and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Modern Art, Waterville, USA (solo)
: The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: First Sight. Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2005: Alex Katz in Maine. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine (solo)
: Man in White Shirt. Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: Pinturas recientes. CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain (solo)
2004: Cartoons and Paintings. Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2003: Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
: Cut-outs. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: Portraits. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (solo)
: Flowers and Landscapes. Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
: Small Portraits and Large Landscapes. Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA (solo)
: Galerie Bernd Klüster, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Small Paintings, travelin exhibition: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, USA (solo)
: Galeria Mario Siqueira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
: In Your Face. Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2002: Small Paintings. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Andover, Mass. Travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA (solo)
2001: Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
: The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts. Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo)
: Regarding Alex Katz. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA (solo)
2000: Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
: Paintings of the 80's, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany (solo)
: Works on Paper. Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
: Marines And More. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany (solo)
1999: Change of Scene. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
: Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (solo)
1998: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Brazil (solo)
: Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York, USA (solo9
: Under the Stars: American Landscape1951-1995. P.S.1, USA (solo)
: New Works. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Portraits, Drawings, Sketches. Kulturring Sundern, Sundern, Germany (solo)
: Twentyfive Years of Painting. The Saatchi Collection, London, UK (solo)
1997: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
: Pintura. Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
: Paintings. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Landscapes and Figures. Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
: Dawn. Peter Blum, New York, USA (solo)
: Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City
1996: Recent Paintings. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: to Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach,F; Portland Musuem of Art, Portland;
: Alex Katz at Colby College. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
1995: American Landscape. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (solo)
: Paintings and Works on Paper. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA (solo)
1994: Landscapes 1954-1956. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1993: Rubenstein/Diacono, New York, USA (solo)
1992: Drawings 1946-1989. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA (solo)
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
: 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, USA (solo)
: Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy(solo)
1990: Paintings, Drawings and Cutouts. Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
1989: Galerie Bernd Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
: Recent Paintings.Institute of Contemporary arts, London, UK (solo)
: Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy(solo)
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, USA (solo)
1986: Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA (solo)
: College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA (solo)
: Twelve Hours. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
: Paintings by Alex Katz. Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, USA (solo)
: Schupf. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and Bowdoin. USA (solo)
: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, USA (solo)
1985: An Exhibition Featuring Works from the Collection of Paul J., USA (solo)
: Alex Katz Paints a Picture. Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, USA (solo)
1984: The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA (solo)
: Alex Katz-Process and Development: Small Paintings from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf '58. USA (solo)
1981: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA (solo)
: Paintings and Drawings 1959-79. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
1980: Prints. Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto.Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, USA (solo)
: Rush-An Environmental Wall Piece. Hartnell College Gallery, USA (solo)
: Salinas, California. Traveled to University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (solo)
1979: Cutouts. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
: Prints. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA (solo)
1978: Alex Katz in the Seventies. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (solo)
: Galerie Roger d'Amécourt, Paris, France (solo)
: Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada (solo)
1977: Recent Paintings. Fresno Arts Center and Museum, California, USA (solo)
: Travelled to Art Galleries California state University, Long Beach; Seattle art Museum, USA (solo)
1975: Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK (solo)
1974: Recent Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf. The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA (solo)
: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA (solo)
: Prints. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA (solo)
1973: Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1972: Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, USA (solo)
: University of California, San Diego; Minnesota, USA (solo)
: Museum of Art, St. Paul; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA (solo)
1971: Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany (solo)
: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Traveled to The Art Gallery, USA (solo)
1969: Alex Katz at Cheat Lake. Mont Chateau Lodge, West Virginia University, Morgantown. USA (solo)
: Presented by West Virginia University and the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council, USA (solo)
1964: Fischbach Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1963: Thibaut Gallery, New York USA (solo)
: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1962: Flat Statues. Tanager Gallery, New York (solo)
: The Set for 'George Washington Crossing the Delaware' USA (solo)
1960: Stable Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1959: Tanager Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1958: The Sun Gallery, Provincetown, USA (solo)
1957: Paintings. Roko Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1954: Paintings. Roko Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Essl Museum, Österreich, Wien
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Rice Museum, Rice University, Houston, TX
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
: Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg
: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Museum Moderner Kunst, Österreich, Wien
: Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Literature

2006: Richer, Francesca and Rosenzweig, Matthew (ed¹s), No. 1 First works by 362 Artists
2004: Cohen, David, ‘A chat with the artist: Power Portraits’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, The New York Sun, Sept 9, 2004
: Kramer, Hilton, ‘Alex Katz’s Attack Of Nine-Foot Women’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, New York Observer, Sept 27, 2004
: Ribas, Joao, ‘Alex Katz’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, Time Out, Sept 23-30, 2004, p.64
: Henry, Clare, ‘People say fashion is a no-no’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, Financial Times (NY), Oct 4, 2004, p.12
: W Magazine, Vol.33, issue 10, Oct. 04, ‘The Orginals: Portraits for W by Alex Katz.’
: McEwen, John, ‘Risk taker’, Alex Katz: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, June-July 2004, The Spactator, 19 June 2004, p. 43, illus ‘Berlin’ 2001
: Pace Wildenstein, New York, exhibition catalogue, ‘Alex Katz. Twelve Paintings’
: Cohen, David, ‘Gallery-Going’, The New York Sun, October 9
: Milazzo, Richard and Acchille Bonito Oliva, ‘Alex Katz’, Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
: Katz, Vincent, ‘Alex Katz’, Pace Wildenstein, New York
: Gingeras, Alison, ‘Alex Katz: Penobscot Bay’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
: Felix, Zdenek & Carter Radcliff, ‘Alex Katz: Cutouts’, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
: Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, exhibition catalogue, ‘Alex Katz – New Paintings and Drawings’
2003: Cartoons and Paintings’, essay by Merlin James ‘Alex Katz: Freehand’
: Gioni, Massimiliano, Vincent Katz & Angela Vettese, ‘Alex Katz: Portraits’, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venice/Silvana Editorale, Milan
2002: ‘Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1951-2002’, Timothy Taylor Gallery
2001: Alpers, Svetlana. ‘Alex Katz’, PaceWildenstein, New York
: Oliva, Achille Bonito, ‘Alex Katz’, Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena
: Tuymans, Luc, ‘Alex Katz’ (video), Barbara Thum Gallery, Berlin
2000: Blumberg, Linda, Connie Lewallen, ‘Katz and Ed Ruscha’, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
: Grynsztejn, Madeleine, ‘Regarding Alex Katz,’ The Carnegie Museum of Art
: Katz, Vincent (poems), Smile Again-Paintings of the 60's: Jablonka Galerie Cologne, Germany
: Maculan, Lena, ‘The Eighties,’ Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
1999: Coen, Victoria, ‘Alex Katz. On Portraits and Landscapes,’ Trento, Italy: Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea
: Gillick, Liam, ‘Alex Katz,’ Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

Alex Katz

(American, born 1927)

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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