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Alex Katz Biography
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1927 |
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Born in Brooklyn, NY
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1928 |
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Moves to St. Albans, Queens
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1946 - 1949 |
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Studies at the Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY
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1949 - 1950 |
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Studies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Showhegan, Maine
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1968 |
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Moves to present home and studio in New York
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1994 |
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Cooper Union Art School creates the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of ten paintings donated by the artist
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Alex Katz, Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland
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2009
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Alex Katz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
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2009
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Alex Katz, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
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2009
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Alex Katz. Drawings, Peter Blum, New York
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2009
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An American Way of Seeing, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
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2009
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Pace Wildenstein, New York
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2009
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Reflections, MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy
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2008 - 2009
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Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano
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2008 - 2009
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Seeing, Drawing, Making, the Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida
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2008
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Marine, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin
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2008
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Alex Katz (Zuoz), Monica De Cardenas - Milano, Milan
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2008
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Art After 1970. From The Albertina, Albertina Museum, Vienna
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2007
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Cutouts, Galería Javier López, Madrid
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2007
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Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland. “Back to the Figure Contemporary Painting”
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2007
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The Albertina, Vienna, Austria. “Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection
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2007
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Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. “Alex Katz”. (solo)
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2007
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Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany. “Alex Katz in European Collections”. (solo)
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2007
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Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. “Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts”. (solo)
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2007
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The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. “Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005”. (solo)
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2007
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Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. (solo)
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2007
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg. (solo)
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2007
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Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain. “Alex Katz: paintings, studies, cartoons”. (solo)
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2006
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National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. “Essential Painting”
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2006
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Alex Katz: The Sixties. Pacewildenstein Gallery, New York
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2006
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Alex Katz in Maine. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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2006
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Alex Katz in European Collections, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
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2006
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Alex Katz Paints Ada 1957-2005, The Jewish Museum, New York
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2006
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Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
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2005 - 2006
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Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milano
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2005
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First Sight. Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
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2005
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Man in White Shirt. Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
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2005
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The University of South of Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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2005
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Alex Katz Collages, Colby College Art Museum, Maine, USA
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2005
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Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, USA
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2004
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Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
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2004
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Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York
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2004
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Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
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2004
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Stella Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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2004
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Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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2004
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Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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2004
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Paint on Metal:: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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2004
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Die Neue Kunsthalle III materiell-immateriell, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
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2004
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Alex Katz. Pinturas recientes. CAC Málaga, Málaga
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2003
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Alex Katz Cutouts, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
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2003
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Alex Katz 'Small Portraits and Large Landscapes'. Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano (solo, cat.).
Alex Katz 'Flowers and Landscapes'. PaceWildenstein, New York solo, cat.)
Alex Katz 'Portraits'. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz 'Cut-outs'. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg (solo)
Alex Katz. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo)
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2003
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E. Fischl, M. Barceló, F. Clemente, A. Katz, P. Taaffe, A. Warhol, Jablonka Galerie Cologne at TEFAF Maastricht
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2002
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Alex Katz 'In Your Face'. Kunst-und Astellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz 'Small Paintings'. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington (solo)
Alex Katz. Galerie Bernd Klüster, Munich (solo)
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2002
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Alex Katz: Small Paintings, travelled to: Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy; Whitney Museum of American Art, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, USA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; Oklahoma City Museum, USA; The Austin Museum of Art, USA
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2002
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Alex Katz : Beach Party, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
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2002
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Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1951-2002, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
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2001
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Galleria Emilio Mazzoli Modena, Italy
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2001
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Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin, Germany
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2001
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Galeria Monica de Cardenas in Venice, Italy
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2001
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PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
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2001
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Alex Katz: The Complete Woodcuts, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
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2001
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Alex Katz Small Paintings. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Oklahoma City Art Museum; Austin Museum of Art (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz. Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (solo)
Alex Katz 'The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts'. Peter Blum, New York (solo)
Alex Katz. Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo, cat.)
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2000
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Smile Again. Paintings of the 60’s. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (cat.)
Alex Katz. Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (solo, cat.)
Regarding Alex Katz. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (solo)
Alex Katz 'Paintings of the 80’s'. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo, cat.)
Alex Katz. Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan (solo, cat.)
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2000
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Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA (cat.)
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2000
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Regarding Alex Katz, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, USA
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2000
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Alex Katz Paintings of the 1980s, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (cat.)
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1999 - 2000
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Galleria Civica d'arte Moderna Trento, Italy
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1999 - 2000
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Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt, Germany
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1999
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Marlborough Gallery New York
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1999
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Marines And More, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (cat.)
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1999
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Alex Katz Works on Paper, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (cat.)
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1998
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (cat.)
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1998
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Kulturring Sundern, Sundern, Germany (cat.)
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1998
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'Alex Katz New Works', Galerie Barabara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
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1998
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Alex Katz, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat.)
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1998
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Alex Katz Recent Paintings, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany (cat.)
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1998
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Thamm Gallerie, Kusnacht-Zurich, Switzerland
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1998
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Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
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1998
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Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting at Retrospective, Saatchi Collection London , England
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1997
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Bilder, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
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1996
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Alex Katz Under the Stars (and so on), The Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 Museum New York
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1991
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Alex Katz: a Drawing Retrospective, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute Utica, NY
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1988
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Alex Katz: a Print Retrospective, The Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY
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1986
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The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1979
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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1971
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Retrospective, Utah Museum of Fine Arts Utah
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1954
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Roko Gallery New York
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| Literature |
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2006
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Richer, Francesca and Rosenzweig, Matthew (ed¹s), No. 1 First works by 362 Artists
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2004
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Cohen, David, ‘A chat with the artist: Power Portraits’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, The New York Sun, Sept 9, 2004
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2004
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Kramer, Hilton, ‘Alex Katz’s Attack Of Nine-Foot Women’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, New York Observer, Sept 27, 2004
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2004
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Ribas, Joao, ‘Alex Katz’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, Time Out, Sept 23-30, 2004, p.64
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2004
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Henry, Clare, ‘People say fashion is a no-no’, Alex Katz: Twelve Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, Sept-Oct 2004, Financial Times (NY), Oct 4, 2004, p.12
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2004
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W Magazine, Vol.33, issue 10, Oct. 04, ‘The Orginals: Portraits for W by Alex Katz.’
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2004
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McEwen, John, ‘Risk taker’, Alex Katz: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, June-July 2004, The Spactator, 19 June 2004, p. 43, illus ‘Berlin’ 2001
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2004
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Pace Wildenstein, New York, exhibition catalogue, ‘Alex Katz. Twelve Paintings’
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2003
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Cartoons and Paintings’, essay by Merlin James ‘Alex Katz: Freehand’
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2003
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Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, exhibition catalogue, ‘Alex Katz – New Paintings and Drawings’
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2003
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Felix, Zdenek & Carter Radcliff, ‘Alex Katz: Cutouts’, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
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2003
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Gioni, Massimiliano, Vincent Katz & Angela Vettese, ‘Alex Katz: Portraits’, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venice/Silvana Editorale, Milan
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2003
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Gingeras, Alison, ‘Alex Katz: Penobscot Bay’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
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2003
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Katz, Vincent, ‘Alex Katz’, Pace Wildenstein, New York
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2003
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Milazzo, Richard and Acchille Bonito Oliva, ‘Alex Katz’, Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
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2003
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Cohen, David, ‘Gallery-Going’, The New York Sun, October 9
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2002
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‘Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1951-2002’, Timothy Taylor Gallery
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2001
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Alpers, Svetlana. ‘Alex Katz’, PaceWildenstein, New York
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2001
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Oliva, Achille Bonito, ‘Alex Katz’, Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena
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2001
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Tuymans, Luc, ‘Alex Katz’ (video), Barbara Thum Gallery, Berlin
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2000
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Blumberg, Linda, Connie Lewallen, ‘Katz and Ed Ruscha’, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
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2000
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Grynsztejn, Madeleine, ‘Regarding Alex Katz,’ The Carnegie Museum of Art
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2000
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Katz, Vincent (poems), Smile Again-Paintings of the 60's: Jablonka Galerie Cologne, Germany
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2000
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Maculan, Lena, ‘The Eighties,’ Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
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1999
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Coen, Victoria, ‘Alex Katz. On Portraits and Landscapes,’ Trento, Italy: Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea
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1999
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Gillick, Liam, ‘Alex Katz,’ Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
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| Links to further information |
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