Andy Warhol Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1928 New York, 1987
1928 Andy Warhol is born as Andrew Warhola on August 6 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1945 He attends the Department of Painting and Design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he graduates four years later. 1946 He receives the Martin B. Leisser Prize for his drawings on display at the Carnegie Institute's Gallery of Fine Art. 1947 He begins to experiment with "blotted-line" drawing technique. 1949 He moves to New York, where he begins working as an illustrator for magazines such as Glamour
and Mademoiselle. He changes his name to Andy Warhol.
1951 Warhol is wildly successful as an illustrator and receives a number of prizes for his work from
institutions such as the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts during this decade.
1952 He holds his first one-man exhibition, entitled Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, at the Hugo Gallery in New York. 1954 He participates in three group exhibitions at the Loft Gallery in New York. 1956 Warhol holds exhibitions at the Bodley Gallery in New York in February and December and then takes an extended tour of Europe and Asia. 1957 He founds Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc. to manage his advertising commissions. 1961 He begins painting his famous pop images of figures from comics and products of mass consumption. 1962 Warhol creates his famous Campbell Soups series, which he exhibits at the Ferus Gallery in Los
Angeles. He holds his first one-man exhibition in New York at the Stable Gallery.
1963 He purchases a 16-mm camera and makes his first films. His Elvis series is on display at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
1964 Warhol holds his first sculpture exhibition, which includes his well-known Brillo boxes and the Campbell s and Heinz series, at the Stable Gallery in New York. The Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris organizes his first one-man show in Europe. Dorothy Podber, a habitué of the Factory, fires a shot through the Marilyn series, which would become known as The Shot Marilyns. 1965 The Institute of Contemporary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia presents Warhol s first retrospective exhibition. 1966 Warhol presents his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and Nico makes the films The Velvet Underground and The Chelsea Girls
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1968 The first European retrospective of his work is displayed at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The show will later travel to several museums in Europe. Feminist activist Valerie Solanis shoots Warhol in the Factory. He is admitted to the hospital and hovers for hours between life and death. 1969 Warhol holds a show at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The first issue of Interview, his magazine, comes out. 1970 The Pasadena Art Museum holds an extensive retrospective of his work that later tours several museums in the United States and Europe. 1971 The Museum Haus Lange in Kefreld holds a retrospective exhibition of his graphic work. Warhol designs the cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers. 1972 He paints the Mao portraits, which he presents at the Kunstmuseum in Basel. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis holds a screening of his films. 1974 Warhol exhibits his work at the Milwaukee Art Center and the Musée Galliera in Paris, where he shows the Mao portraits. The Factory moves to 860 Broadway. 1975 The Baltimore Museum of Art holds a retrospective exhibition of his paintings from 1962.
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publishes his autobiography, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
1976 The Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart holds a major retrospective of his graphic works that later tours several museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
1977 He exhibits at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva. He frequents Studio 54. 1978 The Kunsthaus Zurich holds an exhibition of his work that is later displayed at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek and the Athletes series is shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. 1979 The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York shows a selection of his paintings from the 1970s. He exhibits at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts. He publishes the book Andy Warhol s Exposures. 1980 Warhol paints a series of portraits of Joseph Beuys, which is shown at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva.
1984 He collaborates with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente to create a series of work. 1986 His work is displayed at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. He creates the Last Supper series, which will be exhibited at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan the following year. 1987 Andy Warhol dies on February 22 of complications from a bladder operation. 1989 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York holds an extensive retrospective of his work. 1991 The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York screens his video works. 1999 The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao holds the retrospective Andy Warhol: A Factory.
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2001 The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin organizes a major retrospective of his work, which later travels to the Tate Modern in London and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts. 2005 His work is exhibited at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and a show of his self-portraits is organized by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. 2006 WarholÂ’s works are shown in the Popstars exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
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