Alex Katz was born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn , NY. In 1928 moves to St. Albans, Queens with his family. After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50.

During the 1950's Alex was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other abstract Expressionists .During this time he produced swiftly executed pictures of trees as well as several works based on photographs. By the mid-1950s, he was working from life, they where brightly colored works of landscape, interi

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. In 1972 he was awarded the Guggenheim Grant in Painting. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and his work is represented in almost every major museum in the United States.

Alex Katz develops his imagery along traditional artistic problems as the relationship of the figure and the ground, as colour and light. His elegant, stylized pictures are not realistic in a traditional sense, but formulate painting that is rooted in subjective perception.

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