Guggenheim Museum to Mount Retrospective for Alex Katz, New York Painter Extraordinaire, in 2022

Alex Katz, the 92-year-old artist known for a distinctive style of stark figurative painting and stylized landscapes he has refined since early studies dating back to the 1940s, will be the subject of a career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2022. The hometown show in New York—currently being organized, a Guggenheim representative confirmed, by Katherine Brinson, curator for contemporary art at the Guggenheim; Nancy Spector, artistic director and chief curator; and Levi Prombaum, a curatorial assistant who helped organize the museum’s two-part exhibition “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now”—will mark a milestone for an artist who has long been synonymous with the city in which he was born.