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Alex Katz, born 1927 in New York as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, is one of the most important painters of our time, worldwide.

Alex Katz

Born: 1927

Biography

Alex Katz, born 1927 in New York as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, is one of the most important painters of our time, worldwide. Katz studied at the Cooper Union School of Art from 1946 to 1949. He then attended the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, which would later also produce such important artists as David Reed and Jason Rhoades, among others. From the 1950s onward, Katz developed a very independent painterly language which addresses the traditional genre of the landscape, as well as the portrait or figure painting. Although the general public sees Alex Katz as a pop artist, he does not consider himself to be one. Rather than emanating from a graphic implementation, such as that which pervades the works of Robert Indiana or Roy Lichtenstein for example, his images always emanate from painting.

Katz always begins his work by occupying himself with paint, from which he develops his very characteristic large-scale intercourse with space. The design of his pictorial reality is usually laid out extensively and appears with sharp, clear edges in his works from, at the latest, the end of the 1960s onward. He sees himself as a post-abstract painter who, in his realistic painting style, arranges the figure elements and sign elements in such a way that the observers combine them “in their heads” themselves. Katz is interested in the elementary question: What is reality? Taking this question as a starting point, he has spent the past 50 years repeatedly exploring possible ways with which “realism” can be redefined. Color and light play a central role in his works. Thus, even despite the ostensible realism, he pays less attention to the motif than to the look and style, i.e. the appearance. Alex Katz is represented in numerous international private collections and museum collections, and can look back on a wealth of international exhibition activity.

1949-50 – Studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

1946-49 – Studies at The Cooper Union, New York

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Residencies, Awards and Fellowships

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.

Exhibitions

2019

Alex Katz Musee de L’Orangerie, Paris

2018

Alex Katz Cut Outs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, New York
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Alex Katz: Models and Dancers, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Alex Katz: Grass and Trees, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2017

Alex Katz: Brand-new & Terrific: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Alex Katz: Black and White – Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Alex Katz, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Alex Katz, Cut Outs: 1950s-1980s, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NYC
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
Alex Katz: Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, NYC
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Alex Katz: Dancers and Models, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Alex Katz: Subway Drawings, Timothy Taylor 16×34, New York

2016

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

2015

Alex Katz: New Works on Paper, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Alex Katz: Black Dress, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, New York [cat.]
Alex Katz: Master Paintings and Drawings, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Selected Prints, Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna, Austria
Alex Katz: Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine [cat.]
Alex Katz: This is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (2015-2016) [cat.]

2014

Alex Katz: Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: New and Recent Works, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Alex Katz: Drawings, Cartoons, Paintings, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Alex Katz: Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Alex Katz: 356 Mission, Los Angeles, California
Alex Katz: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, New York
Alex Katz: 70s, 80s, 90s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: 45 Years of Portraits, 1969-2014, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France [cat.]

2013

Alex Katz Essl Museum, Vienna September 15, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Alex Katz Turner Contemporary, Margate October 6, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Katz x Katz Yale School of Art, New Haven January 15, 2013 – March 10, 2013
Alex Katz: Landscapes Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich March 7, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Alex Katz / Félix Vallotton Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Alex Katz: Beneath the Surface Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

2012

Alex Katz Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany January 20, 2011 – April 9, 2012
Alex Katz: Naked Beauty Kestnergesellschaft Hanover (exh. cat.) November 25, 2011 – February 5, 2012
Alex Katz: Prints Museum of Fine Arts, Boston April 28, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow Tate St. Ives (exh. cat.) May 19, 2012 – September 23, 2012
Alex Katz: Maine/New York Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (exh. cat.) July 14, 2012 – December 30, 2012
Alex Katz Timothy Taylor Gallery, London September 5, 2012 – October 5, 2012
Alex Katz Gavin Browns Enterprise, New York November 3, 2012 – December 15, 2012

2011

Alex Katz: Prints, Paintings, Cutouts Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany (exh. cat.) October 5, 2010 – April 3, 2011
Alex Katz: Once in a Lifetime Galería Javier López–Mário Sequeira, Madrid November 29, 2010 – March 31, 2011
Alex Katz Philadelphia Museum of Art December 16, 2010 – December 11, 2011
Alex Katz Gavin Browns Enterprise, New York (exh. cat.) September 10, 2011 – October 8, 2011
Alex Katz: Figure/Ground Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York September 16, 2011 – November 5, 2011
Alex Katz: Face the Music Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (exh. cat.) October 20, 2011 – November 19, 2011

2010

Alex Katz Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: Prints Albertina, Vienna, Austria May 28, 2010 – September 19, 2010
Alex Katz: New York Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine (exh. cat.) June 12, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Alex Katz National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom September 21, 2010 – May 13, 2010

2009

Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Alex Katz: Reflections Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro (MARCA), Calabria, Italy
Alex Katz Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing Sara Hildén Art Museum ,Tampere, Finland Musée Grenoble, Grenoble, France Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Alex Katz: Fifteen Minutes PaceWildenstein, New York, New York

2008

Alex Katz Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Galerie Jablonka , Berlin February 29, 2008 – April 26, 2008
Alex Katz: Subject To Reversal Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois June 19, 2008 – August 2, 2008

2007

Alex Katz in European Collections Langen Foundation,  Neuss, Germany September 3, 2006 – January 28, 2007
Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts Colby College Museum of Art , Waterville, Maine October 12, 2006 – January 28, 2007
Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005 The Jewish Museum , New York, NY October 27, 2006 – March 18, 2007
Alex Katz Irish Museum of Modern Art,  Dublin, Ireland February 27, 2007 – May 20, 2007
Alex Katz: Paintings, Studies, Cartoons Galeria Toni Tápies , Barcelona, Spain
Alex Katz Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,  Salzburg, Austria

2006

Alex Katz Texas Gallery , Houston, Texas February 28, 2006 – April 8, 2006
Alex Katz: The Sixties PaceWildenstein Gallery,  New York, NY April 27, 2006 – June 17, 2006
Alex Katz in Maine Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,  Philadelphia, PA June 24, 2006 – September 3, 2006

2005

Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings Albertina Museum , Vienna, Austria December 16, 2004 – February 20, 2005
Alex Katz: Collages Colby College Art Museum,  Waterville, Maine
Alex Katz The University of South of Florida at Tampa,  Tampa, Florida January 18, 2005 – February 26, 2005
Alex Katz CAC Malaga,  Malaga, Spain March 4, 2005 – June 12, 2005
Alex Katz Farsworth Art Museum Museum , Rockland, Maine July 2, 2005 – October 16, 2005
Neue Editionen Sabine Maximilian Verlag , Munich, Germany August 12, 2005 – September 6, 2005
Alex Katz “First Sight”:  Working Drawings from 1965-2002 Peter Blum Gallery,  New York, NY September 16, 2005 – November 12, 2005
Alex Katz: Man in White Shirt Galeria Javier Lopez,  Madrid, Spain September 22, 2005 – November 10, 2005

2004

Alex Katz: Six Female Portraits, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Alex Katz: Stella Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Alex Katz: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: The Horticultural Society of New York, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, New York [cat.]
Alex Katz: Small Portraits and Large Landscapes, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy [cat.]
Alex Katz: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2003

Alex Katz: Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Modena Emilio Mazzoli, Italy
Alex Katz: CUTOUTS, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria (2003) [cat.]
Alex Katz: New Paintings and Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago [cat.]
Alex Katz: People and Places, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, Florida
Alex Katz: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Portraits, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Alex Katz: Cartoons, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Flowers and Landscapes, PaceWildenstein, New York, New York

2002

Alex Katz: The Woodcuts and Linocuts, The James David Brooks Memorial Gallery, Fairmont State College, West Virginia
Alex Katz: Beach Scenes and Landscapes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal [cat.]
Alex Katz: In Your Face, Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Small Painting 1951–2001, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington [cat.]
Alex Katz: Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

2001

Alex Katz: Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Modena Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Alex Katz: Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Landscapes: Selected Prints from the 1960s and 1970s, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Monica de Cardenas, Venice, Italy
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art Lobby Gallery and Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York (2001-2002); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (2002); Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (2002-2003); Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (2003)
Alex Katz: Large Paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York, New York [cat.]
Alex Katz: The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts 1951–2001, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York; traveled to Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (2002) [cat.]

2000

Alex Katz: Smile Again: Paintings of the Sixties, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [cat.]
Alex Katz: Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Alex Katz: Regarding Alex Katz, Carnegie Museum of Art Forum Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Paintings of the 1980s, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Change of Scene XVIII, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

1999

Alex Katz: ‘February, 5:30 PM, 1972,’ Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
Alex Katz: Marines and More, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Alex Katz: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York [cat.]
Alex Katz: Works on Paper, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York

1998

Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting, The Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom [cat.]
Alex Katz: Portraits, Drawings, Sketches, Stadtgalerie Sundern, Germany
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Kulturring Sundern, Sundern, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: New Works, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Alex Katz: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Thamm Gallerie, Kusnacht-Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Katz: Art and Public Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

1997

Alex Katz: Landscapes and Figures, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Pintura, Galería Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal [cat.]
Alex Katz: Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Alex Katz: Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Alex Katz: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Alex Katz: New Cutouts, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York

1996

Alex Katz: Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Alex Katz: Dawn, Peter Blum, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz at Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Alex Katz: Under the Stars: Landscapes 1951–1995, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (1997); Portland Museum of Art, Maine (1997); Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York (1997-1998) [cat.]
Alex Katz: Recent Work, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1995

Alex Katz: Small Drawings–Small Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Paintings and Works on Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Alex Katz: American Landscape, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany [cat.]

1994

Alex Katz: Landscapes 1954–1956, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Smile, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Alex Katz: Suzanne Hillberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1993

Alex Katz: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Rubenstein/Diacono, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Allene Lapides Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Alex Katz: Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

1992

Alex Katz at Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (1992); The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (1992)

1991

Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1952–1991, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Alex Katz: Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

1990

Alex Katz: Paintings, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Alex Katz: Pinturas y Dibujos, Fandos Galeria de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Alex Katz: Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Alex Katz: Paintings, Drawings and Cutouts, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings and Prints, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Making Faces: Self-Portraits by Alex Katz, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; traveled to Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey (1990); J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1990)
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Alex Katz: Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Alex Katz: Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Canada in association with Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Recent Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Alex Katz: New Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1989

Alex Katz: Print Retrospective 1951–1988, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
Alex Katz: Selected Paintings, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Alex Katz: Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, West Germany [cat.]
Alex Katz: Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1988

Alex Katz: A Print Retrospective, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Dark Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Massimo Audiello, New York, New York
Alex Katz: The Seibu Museum of Art, The Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Parco Studio, Osaka, Japan (1988)
Alex Katz: Nocturnal Paintings, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Alex Katz: Elizabeth Galasso Fine Art, Ossining, New York
Alex Katz: Paintings, Erika Meyerovitz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1987

Alex Katz: Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Alex Katz from the Early 60s, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, West Germany

1986

Alex Katz: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida (1986)
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Erika Meyerovitz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Paintings by Alex Katz, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas

1985

Alex Katz Paints a Picture, Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York
Alex Katz: An Exhibition of Recent Cut-outs, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Alex Katz: Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Alex Katz: An Exhibition Featuring Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Alex Katz: Twelve Hours, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1984

Alex Katz: Small Paintings from the 1950s to the Present, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Small Paintings from the 1950s to the Present, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Alex Katz: Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Paintings, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Alex Katz: Process and Development: Small Paintings from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf ’58, The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

1983

Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery Inc, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Alex Katz: Small Paintings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Alex Katz: Recent Cut-outs, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Alex Katz, Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1982

Alex Katz: Drawings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
Alex Katz: Cut-outs, Stoller and Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alex Katz: Drawings 1944–81, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Recent Prints, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Drawings, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Cut-outs, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1981

Alex Katz: 1957–59, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
Alex Katz: Paintings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Alex Katz: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Alex Katz: Paintings and Drawings 1959–79, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Alex Katz: Painted Metal Cut-outs, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Cut-outs, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1980

Alex Katz: Rush—An Environmental Wall Piece, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, California; traveled to University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (1980)
Alex Katz: Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Scale and Gesture, The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
Alex Katz: Ada, Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
Alex Katz: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Cut-outs, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Alex Katz: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture & Prints, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Alex Katz: Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, Colombia

1979

Alex Katz: Prints, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Alex Katz: Face of the Poet, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Cutouts, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Cutouts, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Cutouts and Drawings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1978

Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Richard Eugene Fuller Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glendale, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Alex Katz: Paintings, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Alex Katz in the Seventies, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Alex Katz and His Beautiful People, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Selected Prints, Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Alex Katz: Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich, Switzerland

1977

Alex Katz: Galerie Roger d’Amécourt, Paris
Alex Katz: Recent Paintings, Fresno Arts Center and Museum, California; traveled to Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach (1977); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (1977-1978); Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada (1978)

1976

Alex Katz: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Recent Works, Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Exhibition of Graphics 1972–75, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

1975

Alex Katz: Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
Alex Katz: Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alex Katz: Recent Works, Galerie Marguérite Lamy, Paris, France
Alex Katz: Exhibition of Graphics 1972–75, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, New York

1974

Alex Katz Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (1975); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah (1975); The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California (1975); University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1975); Indianapolis Museum of Art, (1975) [cat.]
Alex Katz: Recent Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf, The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Alex Katz: Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Alex Katz: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

1973

Alex Katz: Graphic Work for the Past 10 Years, Carlton Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: The American Neo–Realist: Alex Katz, Assa Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
Alex Katz: Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

1972

Alex Katz: Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Alex Katz: Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, West Germany
Alex Katz: Cut-outs—Paintings, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Alex Katz: Prints, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Cut-outs, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Galerie Thelen, Cologne, West Germany

1971

Alex Katz: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; traveled to the Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, California (1971); Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (1971); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1971)

1970

Alex Katz: New Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1969

Alex Katz: “One Flight Up,” Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz at Cheat Lake, Mont Chateau Lodge, West Virginia University, Morgantown
Alex Katz: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1967-1968
Alex Katz: Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1966

Alex Katz: David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, California

1965

Alex Katz: Cut-Outs 1955–65, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1964

Alex Katz:, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1963

Alex Katz: Thibaut Gallery, New York, New York

1962

Alex Katz: Flat-Statues, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Alex Katz: The Set for George Washington Crossing the Delaware, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York