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Born in New York City on July 24, 1927.
His work through the years has been figurative, going against the fashion of abstract expressionism so popular in the 1950s and 1960s when he was making a name for himself. By 1965 he was considered one of the foremost American artists and he has held literally hundreds of exhibitions of his paintings and prints world-wide. Since the mid 1960s he began to produce a steady output of prints.
Katz depicts figures that are highly simplified in contours, set in flat areas of colorAwards won by Katz include: the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972; the quality of his printmaking was recognized by the Whitney Museum in a special exhibition in 1974, the Saint Gaudens Medal in 1980; the Cooper Union Skowhegan Award, Maine in 1980.

1927- Born July 24 in Brooklyn, New York
1928- Moves to St. Albans, Queens
1946-49
Studies at The Cooper Union, New York. Alex Katz studies art at Cooper Union Art School in New York. He later received further direction at the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture in Maine from 1949-1950, and at Colby College, also in Maine, where he received his Honors Ph.D. in 1985.

1954- First one-person show (Roko Gallery, New York)
1955- Makes first collages
1962- 1963
Katz spent some time teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
1968- Moves to present home and studio in New York
1974- Alex Katz Prints, a traveling exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art
From 1983-1984 he taught as a professor at New York University in New York.
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
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.
Artwork by Katz may be found in the collections of the most prestigious museums around the globe including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Tate Gallery, London, England. ...

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