Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927. His work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions internationally since 1951. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career. Works by Katz can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Most notably, those in America include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1968, Katz moved to an artists’ cooperative building in SoHo, where he has lived and worked ever since. He continues to spend his summers in Lincolnville, Maine.