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, a traveling retrospective exhibition organized by 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 at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York.
- Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-1995, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum.
- 1998
- Alex Katz: Twenty-Five Years of Painting at The Saatchi Collection, London, England, January 15 - April 12.
- 1999
- Alex Katz at Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy, November - January.
- 2000
- Regarding Alex Katz at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, July 15 - September 10.
- 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, May 9 - August 18.
- 2003
- Alex Katz - Cutouts at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, February 13 - April 27.
- 2004
- Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings at the Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2004 - February 20, 2005.
- 2005
- Alex Katz at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain, March 4 - June 12.
- Alex Katz' Collages at the Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, June 27 - September 28.
- 2006
- Alex Katz: The Sixties at PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY, April 27 - June 17.
- Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005 at The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 27, 2006 - March 18, 2007.
- 2007
- Alex Katz: New York at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, February 27 - May 20.
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- 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, May 13 - September 21.
- Alex Katz Prints at the Albertina, Vienna, May 28 - September 19.
- Alex Katz: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts at the Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, October 5, 2010 - April 3, 2011.
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Alex Katz at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, December 16, 2010 - December 11, 2011.
2011
Alex Katz at the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany, January 20, 2011 - April 9, 2012.
Alex Katz: Naked Beauty at the Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, November 25, 2011 - February 5, 2012.
2012
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow at the Tate St. Ives, May 19, 2012 - September 23, 2012
and at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, October 6, 2012 - January 13, 2013.
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Alex Katz: Maine/New York at Colby College Musem of Art, Maine. July 14, 2012 - December 30th 2012.
2013
Alex Katz: Landscapes at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, March 7, 2013 - May 12, 2013.
Alex Katz: New York/ Maine Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, March 9, 2013 - July 7, 2013.
Alex Katz / Felix Valloton Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne , March 23, 2013 - June 9, 2013.
2014
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz at the Tate Modern, London, April 26, 2014 - March 1, 2015.
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Drawings, Paintings at the Albertina, Vienna, May 28, 2014 - Sept 29 2014.
2015
Alex Katz: This is Now, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 21, 2015 - September 26, 2015 and at the
Guggenheim, Bilbao, October 23, 2015 - February 7th, 2016.
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950's at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 11, 2015 - October 18, 2015.
Alex Katz at the Met, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 8, 2015 - June 26, 2016.
2016
Alex Katz: Quick Light at the Serpentine Gallery, London, June 2, 2016 - September 11, 2016.
2017
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950's at the Cleveland Museum of Art, April 30, 2017 - August 6, 2017.
2018
ARTISTS ROOMS: Alex Katz at the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, November 23, 2018 - March 17, 2019.
Alex Katz at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany, December 6, 2018 - April 22, 2019.
Alex Katz: Models and Dancers at the Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, April 26, 2018 - July 23, 2018.
2019
Contemporary Counterpoint / Alex Katz. Water Lilies- Homage to Monet series, 2009-2010 at the Musee de l"Orangerie, Paris, France, May 14, 2019 - September 2, 2019.
THE COLLECTION OF THE FONDATION: A VISION FOR PAINTING at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France, February 20, 2019 - August 26, 2019.
Alex Katz at the Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea, February 19, 2019 - May 26, 2019.
2020
Alex Katz at the Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2020 - August 9, 2020