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
1995	Alex Katz: American Landscape at Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
1996	Alex Katz at I.V.A.M. Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
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	Alex Katz at Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
2000	Regarding Alex Katz at Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh.
2001	Alex Katz Small Paintings at Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover.
2002	Alex Katz Small Paintings at Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover. at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York at Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, March 22-June 2 at Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK at The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, February 15-May 4 2003
2002	Alex Katz- In Your Face Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik, Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, May 9-August 18
2003	Alex Katz - Cutouts Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
2004	Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2004- February 20, 2005
2005	Alex Katz Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Malaga, Spain, March 4- June12 Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, December 3, 2004 – March 6, 2005
2005	Alex Katz' Collages Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, June 27- September 28
2005	Alex Katz in Maine Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, July 2- October 16
2006	Alex Katz: The Sixties Pacewildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, April 27 - June 17, 2006 Alex Katz in Maine Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, June 24 - September 3, 2006 Alex Katz in European Collections Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, September 3 - January 28, 2007 Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005 The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 27, 2006 - March 18, 2007 Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, October 12, 2006 - January 28, 2007
2007	New York Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, February 27 - May 20, 2007