Alex Katz, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927.

Alex Katz is indisputably one of the fathers of pop art. He lives and works between New York and Lincolnville (Maine). In his figurative painting, Alex Katz was always on the borderline between abstraction and realism. He was doing figurative painting when the whole of American art had turned decisively away from representation. At that time, Katz countered the painters such as Jackson Pollock, who obstinately insisted on an impulsive, individual signature or the presentation of hardly perceptible differences, with his cool treatment of a fully visible, verifiable world.

Since the 1980s he has been the outstanding protagonist of Cool Painting, and one of the most influential painters in the world. He became a kind of cult figure for a whole generation of painters now in their thirties and forties. Long before the protagonists of pop art, such as Andy Warhol, Katz adopted the principle of serialism, and influenced an entire generation with it. Katz’s works, however, always bear a connection with the history of American painting, to Georgia O’Keeffe, Fairfield Porter, Ralston Crawford and Edward Hopper.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Alex Katz -MART, Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.
Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal

2020
Alex Katz – Retrospective, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

2019
Alex Katz, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
Alex Katz: Prints, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Contemporary counterpoint / Alex Katz. Water Lilies – Homage to Monet series, 2009-2010, Musee de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
Red Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Focus On: Alex Katz, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
FIAC 2019: Hors les murs, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

2018
Alex Katz, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Alex Katz: Coca-Cola Girls, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
Grass and Trees, Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Alex Katz: Splits, Galeria Javier Lopez & Frances Fer, Madrid, Spain
ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, U.K.
Models and Dancers, Lotte Museum, Seoul, Korea
Brand New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA

2017
Alex Katz: Black and White, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Subway Drawimgs, Timothy Taylor 16×34, New York, NY, USA
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, U.K.
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Alex Katz Cut Outs: 1950s – 1980s, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Alex Katz: Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY,USA
Alex Katz: Dancers and Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

2016
Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz: Quick Light, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, USA
Alex Katz: New Landscapes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Small Paintings and Drawings 1990 – 2016, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Alex Katz: Black and White, American University Museum, Washington D.C., WA, USA

2015
Alex Katz: Black Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, U.K.
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz: This is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville,ME, USA
Alex Katz at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz: This is Now, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Alex Katz: Portraits, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

2014
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA
45 Years of Portraits: 1969-2014, Galerie Taddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: 70s / 80s / 90s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, U.K.
Alex Katz, Luciano Brito Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Alex Katz, 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alex Katz: Red Hat, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Drawings, Cartoons, Paintings, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

2013
Katz x Katz, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
Alex Katz: Summer in Maine, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Landscapes, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Katz: New York/Maine, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA
Alex Katz: Beneath the Surface, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, U.K.
Alex Katz: Portraits and Late Summer Flowers, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1987-2013, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Alex Katz: Virtual Reality, Richard Gray, Chicago, IL, USA
Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, USA

2012
Highlights, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Regarding Wahrol : Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
We The People, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Foundation for Art and Preservation in EMbassies Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA

2011
Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe, Bruge, Belgium

2010
To Nature: The ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Jumble, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, Mexico

2008
Art After 1970. From The Albertina, The Albertina, Vienna, Austria

2007
Back to the Figure Contemporary Painting, Museum Franz Gertsch,Burgdorf, Switzerland

2006
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2005
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
Picturing America: Selections from Whitney Museum of American Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum Nagasaki, Japan

2004
Die Neue Kunsthalle III materiell-immateriell Kunsthalle Mannheim Mannheim, Germany
Behind Closed Doors Katonah Museum of Art Katonah, New York, NY, USA

2003
Pictura Magistra VitaeFondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Collezioni d’Arte e di Storia San Giorgio in Poggiale, Italy
Seascapes of Confrontation (Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea) PMMK – Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium

2002
Cher Peintre… Peintures Figuratives Depuis L’ultime Picabia, Centre Pompidou,Paris, France
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2001
American Academy in Berlin. Alex Katz, Berlin, Germany
The Contemporary Face: From Pablo Picasso to Alex Katz, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Alex Katz and Ed Ruscha, American Academy in Rome., Rome, Italy

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1969
Warmwind: Amerikanska Realister, Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden
Landscape in Maine: 1820-1970, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, USA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA; Carnegie Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA;
Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
American Art Since 1960, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Figures—Environments, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
La Collection de la Fondation : le parti de la peinture, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2018
Franz Gertsch, Alex Katz, Billy Childish, Galleria Monica Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland
WOW! The Heidi Horton Collection, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Inspired by Matisse: Selected Works from the Collection, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA

2016
Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
An Artist’s Gift : Acquisition from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA
Headstrong, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, USA
Choice Works, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA
Portraits : The last headline, Galerie Bergamin, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
A House Without Rooms, Galerie Torri, Paris, France

2014
Face Value : Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Irving Sandler: Out of Tenth Street and into the 1960s, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Sea, Mu.ZEE, Ostende, Belgium

2013
In Cloud Country: Abstracting from nature, Harewood House, Leeds, U.K.
Come Together : Surviving Sandy, BrooklynIn Cloud Country : Abstracting form nature, Harewood House, Leeds
Woods, Lovely, Dark and Deed, DC Moore Gallery, New York
John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York
Figure and Grounds, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY,USA

2012
Highlights, Galerie Klüser, München
Regarding Warhol : Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
We The People, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
Foundation for Art and Preservation in EMbassies Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection, Sperone Westwater, New York

2011
Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe Bruge, Belgium

2010
To Nature: The ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts Irish Museum of Modern Art Jumble, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, EU

2008
Art After 1970. From The Albertina, The Albertina, Vienna

2007
Back to the Figure Contemporary Painting, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

2006
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2005
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries Tucson Museum of ArtTucson, AZ
Picturing America: Selections from Whitney Museum of American Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum Nagasaki, Japan

2004
Die Neue Kunsthalle III materiell-immateriell Kunsthalle Mannheim Mannheim, Germany
Behind Closed Doors Katonah Museum of Art Katonah, New York

2003
Pictura Magistra Vitae Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Collezioni d’Arte e di Storia San Giorgio in Poggiale
Seascapes of Confrontation (Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea) PMMK – Museum of Modern Art Ostend, Belgium

2002
Cher Peintre… Peintures Figuratives Depuis L’ultime Picabia, Centre Pompidou,Paris
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2001
American Academy in Berlin. Alex Katz, Berlin, Germany
Deichtorhallen Hamburg.”The Contemporary Face: From Pablo Picasso to Alex Katz”
American Academy in Rome.”Alex Katz and Ed Ruscha” Rome, Italy

1999
Essl Collection, Klostennenberg, Austria. “Essl Collection”. Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Itlay. “Woods.” March-May.
Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York. “Winter.” January.
Carnegie International 1999-2000, Pittsburgh. “Realism and ‘New Internationalism’.” (exh. cat.)
Musee de Beaux-Art, Lausanne, Switzerland. “Musee Pour Demain? L'”Art Contemporain Dans des Collections Privee Vaudoises.”
Blickle Stiftung “Figuration” Kraichtal, Germany. Traveled to Rupertinum Salzburg, Austria; Museion, Bolzano, Italy

1998
Wooster Gardens-Brent Sikkema, New York. “Painting.” October.

1997
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Franfurt am Main, Germany. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art.
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany. Birth of the Cool. Traveling exhibition: Kusthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. (exh. cat.)
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York. Feminine Image.
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois. ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring Modern and Contemporary Art.
Marlborough Gallery, New York. CityScapes.
Messe Basel, Switzerland. Art 28 97: The International Fair, Twentieth Century Art.

1996
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico. Pintura Estadounidense, Expressionismo Abstracto.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2.. Traveling exhibition: MMK, Frankfurt, Germany,. (cat.)
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York. a/drift.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York. Screen
Foundation Cartier pour líart Contemporain, Paris France. By Night.
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England. Face to Face.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rediscovering The Landscape of the Americas. Traveling exhibition through 1998: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Western Gallery of Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, September; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina,
The Hopper House Art Center, New York. Realism After 7 A.M..
Galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome, Italy. On Paper.
James Graham & Sons, New York. Portraits

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1969
Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden. “Warmwind: Amerikanska Realister.” March 26-April 12. (exh. cat.)
Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine. “Landscape in Maine: 1820-1970.” April 4-May 5. Traveled to Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, May 21-June 28; Carnegie Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, July 8-August 30. (exh. cat.)
Indianapolis Museum of Art. “Painting & Sculpture Today.” April. (exh. cat.)
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. “American Art Since 1960.” May 6-27. (exh. cat.)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. “Figures–Environments.” May 15-June 13. Traveled to Cincinnati Art Museum, October 2-November 1; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, December 13, 1970-January 17, 1971. (exh. cat.)