Alex Katz
Biography
Katz's work has been the subject of
numerous retrospectives and solo presentations over the course of his expansive
career. His work is in the permanent collections of over one hundred museums
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of
Chicago; the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; the Tate, London;
Centre Georges Pompidou and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Albertina
Museum, Vienna; el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Katz lives and works in New York. He was
the 2019 Honoree at TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art and had a solo survey exhibition
at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai in 2020. Recent exhibitions include solo
shows at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; the Albertina Museum,
Vienna; and the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenar; as well as a major retrospective
at the Guggenheim in New York.
