Alex Katz

1927 Born July 24 in Brooklyn, New York 1928 Moves to St. Albans, Queens 1946-49 Studies at The Cooper Union, New York 1949-50 Studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1954 First one-person show (Roko Gallery, New York) 1955 Makes first collages 1968 Moves to present home and studio in New York 1974 Alex Katz Prints, a traveling exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art 1986 Alex Katz, a traveling retrospective exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art 1988 Alex Katz: A Print Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art 1996 Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, a traveling exhibition at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York 1996-98 Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-1995, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, opens at the Baltimore Museum of art; traveling to the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Florida; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; and P.S. 1 Museum, New York 1998 Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting at The Saatchi Collection, London, England 1999 Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt 2000 Carnegie International 1999-2000, Pittsburgh. "Realism and 'New Internationalism'." Source: http://www.alexkatz.com/bio.html