Alex Katz

1927

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA

1946 – 1949

Attends The Cooper Union Art School in Manhattan, New York, a prestigious college of art, architecture and engineering where he studies painting under Morris Kantor

1949 – 1950

Scholarship for summer study at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA

1972

Guggenheim Fellowship

Cooper Union Professional Achievement Citation

1978

Scholarship from the US-Government for an exchange program with the Soviet Union

1988

Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

1994

Voted as member of the National Academy of Design in New York

Guest Professorship at the Cooper Union Art School which was financed through the sale of ten paintings donated by Katz

2000

Artist of the City, Cooper Union, New York City, NY

2001

Visiting Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Germany

2019

Contemporary Counterpoint / Alex Katz. Water Lilies- Homage to Monet series, Musee de l"Orangerie, Paris, France

2018

ARTISTS ROOMS: Alex Katz at the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

Alex Katz im Museum Brandhorst, Munich

2017

Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950's at the Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

2016

Alex Katz: Quick Light at the Serpentine Gallery, London, England

2015

Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

Alex Katz at the Met, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2014

ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz at the Tate Modern, London, England

Alex Katz: Cartoons, Drawings, Paintings at the Albertina, Vienna

2010

Alex Katz at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

Alex Katz Portraits at The National Portrait Gallery, London, England

Alex Katz Prints at the Albertina, Vienna

2006

Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005 at The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2004

Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings in der Albertina, Vienna

2003

Alex Katz - Cutouts Deichtorhallen Hamburg

2002

Alex Katz- In Your Face in der Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik, Bonn

2001

Alex Katz Small Paintings Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA