Timeline

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 at 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 organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art.
 
1986
Alex Katz: Retrospective 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.
Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, a traveling exhibition organized by Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951–1995, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, Queens, New York.
 
1998
Alex Katz: Twenty-Five Years of Painting at The Saatchi Collection, London.
 
2000
Regarding Alex Katz at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. 
 
2001
Alex Katz Small Paintings traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
 
2002
Alex Katz: In Your Face at Kunst-Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany.
 
2003
Alex Katz: Cutouts at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
 
2004
Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings at the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
 
2005
Alex Katz at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain.
Alex Katz Collages at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
 
2006
Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957–2005 at The Jewish Museum, New York.
 
2007
Alex Katz: New York at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
 
2009
Alex Katz: An American Way Of Seeing traveling exhibition organized by the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Musée Grenoble, Grenoble and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany.
 
2010
Alex Katz Portraits at The National Portrait Gallery, London.
Alex Katz Prints at the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
Alex Katz: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts at the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
 
2011
Alex Katz at the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany.
2012
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow at the Tate St. Ives, U.K. and at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K. 
Alex Katz: Maine/New York at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. 

2013
Alex Katz: Landscapes at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. 
Alex Katz: New York/Maine Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.  
Alex Katz/Felix Vallotton  Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.

2014
Artist Rooms: Alex Katz at the Tate Modern, London.
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Drawings, Paintings at the Albertina, Vienna.

2015
Alex Katz: This is Now, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and at the Guggenheim, Bilbao. 
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950's at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and at the  Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
Alex Katz at the Met, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2016
Alex Katz: Quick Light at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

2018
Artist Rooms: Alex Katz at the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Alex Katz at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany.
Alex Katz: Models and Dancers at the Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.

2019
Contemporary Counterpoint/Alex Katz. Water Lilies – Homage to Monet series, 2009–2010 at the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris.
The Collection of the Fondation: A Vision for Painting at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris.
Alex Katz at the Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea.

2020
Alex Katz at the Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China.

2021
Alex Katz: New Paintings at the Gladstone Gallery, New York.

2022
Alex Katz at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid, June 11 – September 11.
Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Aug. 16, 2022 – Feb. 19, 2023.
Alex Katz: Gathering, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Oct. 21, 2022 – Feb. 20, 2023.