Alex Katz

A North American artist born in 1927 in New York, he studied at The Cooper Union and then at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The artist achieved great public notoriety in the 1980s and is well known for his large paintings that have simplicity and a wealth of colors and for this reason he is considered one of the precursors of Pop Art. He has participated in more than 200 individual exhibitions and about 500 collective exhibitions in his great career since 1951. He has been deserving of numerous awards including: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for painting in 1972, and in 1987; The Chicago Bar Association honored Katz with the prize for Art in Public Spaces in 1985; He was named the Philip Morris Distinguished Artist at the American Academy in Berlin in 2001 and received the Cooper Union Annual Artist of the City Award in 2000; among others.

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