Alex Katz
알렉스 카츠
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Alex Katz is an American painter renowned for his large-scale depictions of landscapes, flowers, and portraits. Katz’s flattening of forms, simplification of detail, and alla-prima paint application, are trademarks of his work. “We compete for audiences, as artists. I'm competing with the Abstract Expressionist guys. I'll knock ‘em off the wall,” he once remarked. “If you put my work next to an aggressive A.E. painting, I'll eat most of ‘em up. And I want to compete with the kids. I'm there with the kids.” Born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, he attended the Cooper Union School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as a young man. During the mid-1950s, Katz fell into the small circle of artists known as the 10th Street Scene, which included Lois Dodd, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, among others. Over the following decades, he developed his hallmark stylization through experimenting with collaged paper and aluminum cutouts. Having achieved widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, his work serves as a beacon to younger generations of artists, including Elizabeth Peyton and Julian Opie. Katz maintains residences in Lincolnville, ME, and New York, NY. Today, his works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others.
알렉스 카츠는 미국의 화가로 큰 규모의 풍경화, 꽃 그리고 초상화를 그리는 것으로 유명하다. 카츠의 작품들엔 형태의 평면화, 디테일의 단순화와 알라-프리마 기법들이 자주 보인다. “우리는 관객을 위해서 경쟁하는 거에요, 예술가로서. 저는 추상적 표현주의자들과 경쟁하고 있는거죠. 저는 그들을 쉽게 굴복시킬 거에요”, 라며 그는 “만일 제 작품들을 적극적인 추상적 표현주의 작품 옆에 놓는다면, 아마 제 작품들이 압도적으로 돋보일 겁니다. 저는 ‘걔네’랑 경쟁하고 싶고, 그래서 ‘걔네’ 근처에 맴돌아요”. 1927년 7월 24일 뉴욕 브루클린에서 태어난 그는 뉴욕 쿠퍼 유니온 미술학교와 스코웨건 회화와 조각 학교를 다녔다. 1950년대 중반엔 카츠는 10번가 씬 (10th Street Scene) 이라는 소규모의 예술가들 그룹에도 잠시 몸 담았으며, 이 시기에 로이스 도드, 래리 리버스, 페어필드 포터 등을 만났다. 그 후 몇 십년 간 콜라쥬 된 종이와 오려낸 알루미늄 등으로 실험하며 자신만의 독특한 스타일을 구축하였다. 비평가들의 찬사와 재정적 성공을 모두 이룬 그의 작품들은 엘리자베스 페이튼이나 줄리안 오피 같은 후대 예술가들 에게도 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 카츠는 뉴욕과 메인의 링컨빌에서 거주하며, 그의 작품들은 뉴욕의 현대미술박물관, 시카고 미술관, 런던의 테이트 모던, 그리고 워싱턴 DC의 국립미술화랑 등에 소장되어 있다.
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Timeline
1927
Born in Brooklyn, NY
1928
Moved to St. Albans, Queens
1946–1949
Studied at the Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY
1949–1950
Studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Showhegan, ME
1968
Moved to present home and studio in New York
1972
Guggenheim Fellowship
1972
Cooper Union Professional Achievement Citation
1980
St. Gaudens Medal in Art
1994
Cooper Union Art School creates the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of 10 paintings donated by the artist
1996
Einweihung des The Paul J. Schupf Wing für die Arbeiten des Künstlers im Colby College. Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
2000
Artist of the City, Cooper Union, New York City, NY
2001
Visiting Fellow, American Academy in Berlin
lives and works in New York
Exhibitions
2018
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (solo)
2018
Dancers and Models, Lotte Museum of Art, Songpa-gu, Seoul (solo)
2018
Grass and Trees,Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo)
2018
Small Paintings, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton (solo)
2018
Three Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York (solo)
2018
A Life in Print, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue (solo)
2018
Cut outs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2017
Dancers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (solo)
2017
Alex Katz: Black and White, Tampa Museum of art, Tampa (solo)
2017
Brand- New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (solo)
2017
Cartoons, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid (solo)
2017
Subway Drawings, Timoty Taylor, New York (solo)
2016
Alex Katz: small paintings and drawings, Monica de Cardenas, Milano (solo)
2016
New Landscapes, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
2016
Alex Katz: Small paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art (solo)
2016
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2016
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2016
Present Tense: Sixty Years of Master Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2015
Brand New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA (solo)
2015
This is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (solo)
2015
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2015
Black Paintings, Timothy Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2015
This is Now, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
2015
Alex Katz: Portraits, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2015
Alex Katz at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
2014
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
2014
Alex Katz: Red Hat, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2014
356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2014
Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2014
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2014
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2014
45 Years of Portraits 1969 - 2014, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2014
Drawings, cartoons, paintings, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2014
Artist Rooms, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
2013
Small paintings 1987-2013, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2013
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2013
Alex Katz New York/Maine, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2013
Landscapes, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2013
Alex Katz & Felix Vallotton, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
2013
Selections from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (solo)
2013
Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA (solo)
2012
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2012
Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (solo)
2012
Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2012
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, UK (solo)
2012
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2012
Colby Museum, Maine, UK (solo)
2012
Alex Katz Prints, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA (solo)
2011
Once life in time, Galleria Javier López, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2011
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA (solo)
2011
Face the Music, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2011
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (solo)
2011
Cool Prints, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
2011
Prints, Paintings, Cutouts, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Wien, Austria (solo)
2011
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
2011
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (solo)
2010
Seeing, Drawing, Making, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA (solo)
2010
An American Way of Seeing, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany(solo)
2010
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2010
Albertina, Wien, Austria (solo)
2010
Timothy Taylor, London, UK (solo)
2009
Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2009
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2009
Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, USA (solo)
2009
Museo delle Arti di Catanzaro (MARCA), Catanzaro, Italy (solo)
2008
Subject To Reversal, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2008
Galerie Jablonka, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2007
Smile, A cycle of eleven paintings from 1993-94, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA (solo)
2007
Paintings, studies, cartoons, Galeria Toni Tapis, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2007
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, The Netherlands (solo)
2007
Alex Katz in European Collections, The Langen Foundation Neuss, Germany (solo)
2007
Alex Katz: New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2007
Cutouts, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007
One Flight Up, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2007
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2006
New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2006
Small Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
2006
Woodcut and Linocuts, Colby College Museum of Modern Art, Waterville, USA (solo)
2006
The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2006
Alex Katz Paints Ada, Jewish Museum, New York (solo)
2005
Alex Katz in Maine. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine (solo)
2005
Man in White Shirt. Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2005
First Sight. Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2005
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2004
Cartoons and Paintings. Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2004
Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2004
Pinturas recientes. CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain (solo)
2003
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2003
Cut-outs. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2003
Portraits. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (solo)
2003
Flowers and Landscapes. Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2003
Small Portraits and Large Landscapes. Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2002
Small Paintings. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2002
In Your Face. Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2002
Andover, Mass. Travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA (solo)
2002
Small Paintings, travelin exhibition: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, USA (solo)
2002
Galeria Mario Siqueira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
2002
Galerie Bernd Klüster, Munich, Germany (solo)
2002
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA (solo)
2001
Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2001
The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts. Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2001
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo)
2000
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
2000
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2000
Paintings of the 80's, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany (solo)
2000
Regarding Alex Katz. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA (solo)
1999
Change of Scene. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
1999
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (solo)
1999
Works on Paper. Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1999
Marines And More. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany (solo)
1998
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Brazil (solo)
1998
Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York, USA (solo9
1998
Under the Stars: American Landscape1951-1995. P.S.1, USA (solo)
1998
New Works. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1998
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
1998
Portraits, Drawings, Sketches. Kulturring Sundern, Sundern, Germany (solo)
1998
Twentyfive Years of Painting. The Saatchi Collection, London, UK (solo)
1997
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
1997
Pintura. Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
1997
Paintings. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1997
Landscapes and Figures. Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
1996
Recent Paintings. Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1996
to Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach,F; Portland Musuem of Art, Portland;
1996
Alex Katz at Colby College. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
1996
Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City
1996
Dawn. Peter Blum, New York, USA (solo)
1995
American Landscape. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (solo)
1995
Paintings and Works on Paper. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA (solo)
1994
Landscapes 1954-1956. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1993
Rubenstein/Diacono, New York, USA (solo)
1992
Drawings 1946-1989. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA (solo)
1991
Small Paintings. Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
1991
A Drawing Retrospective. Museum of Art, Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, New York Traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, March; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
1990
Paintings, Drawings and Cutouts. Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
1990
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy(solo)
1990
Making Faces: Self-Portraits by Alex Katz. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Traveled to The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey, J.B. Speed Art Museum of Art, New Jersey, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA (solo)
1989
Galerie Bernd Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
1989
Recent Paintings.Institute of Contemporary arts, London, UK (solo)
1989
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy(solo)
1988
A Print Retrospective. The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Seibu Museum of Art, The Seed Hall, Tokyo, Traveled to Nocturnal Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA (solo)
1986
Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA (solo)
1985
An Exhibition Featuring Works from the Collection of Paul J., USA (solo)
1985
William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, USA (solo)
1985
Alex Katz Paints a Picture. Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, USA (solo)
1985
Paintings by Alex Katz. Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, USA (solo)
1985
Twelve Hours. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
1985
College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA (solo)
1985
Schupf. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and Bowdoin. USA (solo)
1984
The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA (solo)
1984
Alex Katz-Process and Development: Small Paintings from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf '58. USA (solo)
1981
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA (solo)
1981
Paintings and Drawings 1959-79. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
1980
Prints. Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto.Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, USA (solo)
1980
Rush-An Environmental Wall Piece. Hartnell College Gallery, USA (solo)
1980
Salinas, California. Traveled to University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (solo)
1979
Cutouts. Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1979
Prints. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA (solo)
1978
Alex Katz in the Seventies. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (solo)
1977
Recent Paintings. Fresno Arts Center and Museum, California, USA (solo)
1977
Travelled to Art Galleries California state University, Long Beach; Seattle art Museum, USA (solo)
1977
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada (solo)
1977
Galerie Roger d'Amécourt, Paris, France (solo)
1975
Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK (solo)
1974
Recent Works from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf. The Picker Art Gallery, Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA (solo)
1974
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA (solo)
1974
Prints. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA (solo)
1973
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1972
Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, USA (solo)
1971
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany (solo)
1971
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Traveled to The Art Gallery, USA (solo)
1971
Museum of Art, St. Paul; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA (solo)
1971
University of California, San Diego; Minnesota, USA (solo)
1969
Alex Katz at Cheat Lake. Mont Chateau Lodge, West Virginia University, Morgantown. USA (solo)
1969
Presented by West Virginia University and the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council, USA (solo)
1964
Fischbach Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1963
Thibaut Gallery, New York USA (solo)
1962
Flat Statues. Tanager Gallery, New York (solo)
1962
The Set for 'George Washington Crossing the Delaware' USA (solo)
1962
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1960
Stable Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1959
Tanager Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1958
The Sun Gallery, Provincetown, USA (solo)
1957
Paintings. Roko Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1954
Paintings. Roko Gallery, New York, USA (solo)