Katz, Alex

Studies at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Studies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.

Participates in Jean Cohen and Alex Katz: Paintings at Peter Cooper Gallery in New York.

Roko Gallery in New York presents Katz’s first solo exhibition.

Makes first collages.

Focuses on producing portraits for the first time.

Teaches at the Brooklyn School in New York.

Participates in the exhibition Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters under Thirty-six at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibition later travels to the Baltimore Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; City Art Museum in St. Louis; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Begins designing sets and costumes for choreographer Paul Taylor.

Has shows at the Stable Gallery and Mili-Jay Gallery, both in New York.

Katz’s work is included in the group exhibition Recent Landscapes by Eight Americans, which opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and later travels to different institutions in the United States and Europe.

Exhibits at Mont Chateau Lodge in Morgantown, West Virginia, and at Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago.

Exhibits at Fischbach Gallery in New York.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City presents an exhibition of the artist’s work, which later travels to the Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul; and Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Exhibits at Assa Galleria in Helsinki and Marlborough Gallery in New York.

Katz’s work is included in Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents Alex Katz Prints, which later travels to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia; Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City; Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, California; University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis.

Exhibits at Marlborough Fine Art in London; Galerie Arnesen in Copenhagen; Galerie Marguérite Lamy in Paris; and Marlborough Gallery in New York.

Exhibits at Marlborough Gallery in New York and Toronto.

Receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., to design the set and costumes for Paul Taylor’s Polaris.

Alex Katz: Recent Paintings is held at the Fresno Arts Center and Museum in Fresno, California. The exhibition later travels to the Art Galleries at California State University, Long Beach; Seattle Art Museum in Seattle; and Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada.

Receives a grant from the United States government to take part in a cultural and educational exchange program with the Soviet Union.

Exhibits at Brooke Alexander Gallery and Robert Miller Gallery, both in New York. Katz’s work is included in The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Exhibits at Marlborough Gallery in New York; Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto; and Middendorf/ Lane Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Katz’s work is shown at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama; Portland Center for the Visual Arts in Portland, Oregon; and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.

Exhibits at Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto; Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York; Marlborough Gallery in New York; and Marlborough Fine Art in London.

Marlborough Gallery in New York presents an exhibition of the artist’s recent paintings.

Produces Harlem Station, a freestanding cutout mural at the Harlem “L” Station in Chicago.
Exhibits at the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; Asher/Faure Gallery in Los Angeles; and Benjamin Mangel Gallery in Philadelphia.
Awarded an honorary doctorate from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

The Chicago Bar Association honors Katz with the Award for Art in Public Places.
Has exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Art in Tokyo and Robert Miller Gallery in New York

A retrospective of Katz’s work is presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and later travels to the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami.

Receives the Mary Buckley Award for achievement from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and the Queens Museum of Art Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York presents a retrospective of the artist’s prints.

Named Trustee Emeritus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.

Exhibits at Galerie Bernd Klüser in Munich and Riva Yares Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Exhibits at Galerie Bernd Klüser in Munich and Riva Yares Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Making Faces: Self-Portraits by Alex Katz is presented at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. The exhibition later travels to the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, and Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

Alex Katz: Recent Paintings is shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective opens at the Museum of Art of the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York. It later travels to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, and Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Exhibitions of Katz’s work are also held at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu and Marlborough Gallery in New York.

Marlborough Gallery in New York presents Alex Katz: Paintings.

Begins the series Smiles, which will eventually comprise eleven canvases made between 1993 and 1994.

Galería Marlborough in Madrid presents an exhibition of the artist’s work, including the Smiles series.

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents Alex Katz: American Landscape.

The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, inaugurates a new wing, the Paul Schupf Gallery for the Works of Alex Katz, where a revolving selection of the museum’s collection of works by the artist, numbering some 700 objects (including more than 400 donated by Katz), will be shown.
The Baltimore Museum of Art presents Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951–1995, organized by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
The exhibition later travels to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida; Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine; and P.S.1.
Vincent Katz and Vivien Bittencourt produce the video Alex Katz: Five Hours, which documents the production of the artist’s work January 3.

IVAM, Centro Julio González in Valencia organizes an exhibition of the artist’s work.

Alex Katz: Twenty-Five Years of Painting opens at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Exhibits at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris; Galerie Bernd Klüser in Munich; Thamm Galerie in Küsnacht-Zurich, Switzerland; and Art & Public in Geneva.

Has exhibitions at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg; Marlborough Gallery in New York; and Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento.

Receives the Artist of the City award from the Cooper Union in New York.

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh presents Regarding Alex Katz, and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg presents Alex Katz: Paintings of the 1980s.

Named the Philip Morris Distinguished Artist at the American Academy in Berlin.
The Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, presents Alex Katz: Small Paintings. The exhibition later travels to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City; Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City; and Austin Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.

Katz’s work is shown at the Kunst- und und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn and Timothy Taylor Gallery in London.

The first European exhibition dedicated exclusively to portraits by the artist opens at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.
The Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents an exhibition of the artist’s cutouts. The exhibition later travels to the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten in Klagenfurt, Austria.

The Albertina in Vienna presents Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings.

Selected as the featured speaker for the Chicago Humanities Festival’s inaugural Richard Gray Visual Arts Series.
Receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
Exhibitions of Katz’s work are presented at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga; Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine; and Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine.

The Jewish Museum in New York; Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany; Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; and PaceWildenstein in New York present exhibitions of the artist’s work.

Alex Katz: New York opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy Museum in New York.

Exhibits at Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago, Jablonka Galerie in Berlin, and Galleria Monica De Cardenas in Milan.

The Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, presents the exhibition Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing, which later travels to the Musée de Grenoble in Grenoble, France, and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Kleve, Germany.

Exhibitions of Katz’s work are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London; Albertina in Vienna; Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine; Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany; and Galería Javier López-Mário Sequeira in Madrid.

Exhibits at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York; and Senior & Shopmaker Gallery in New York.

Exhibits in the UK: Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary in Margate. The Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, USA, holds an exhibition that later on travels to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria.

Exhibitions of Katz’s work are held at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Alex Katz’s work is included in exhibitions at Tate Modern in London and the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

Alex Katz: This is Now opens at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, USA, and later this year at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The artist exhibits his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, and the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville in Maine, USA.

His exhibitions open at Serpentine Gallery in London and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, USA.

Exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Art, USA.

Solo exhibitions at Tate Liverpool and the Brandhorst Museum in Munich (Germany).

Exhibits at the Daegu Art Museum, South Korea.

Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris includes Alex Katz’s work in the group exhibition A Vision for Painting.