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Andy Warhol
 
Biography

1928   Born Andrew Warhola on 6 August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
1937   Warhol’s grade school teacher recommends him for the prestigious Carnegie Museum Saturday art courses, which he starts attending.
1945   Warhol graduates from Schenley High School, enrols in Carnegie Mellon University where he majors in pictorial design. He starts working in the Joseph Horne department store on the side and in the summer. In his senior year he works as a picture editor for the student magazine Caro.
1949   Graduates from university and moves to New York, USA. He starts commissioned design illustrations on major glossy magazines like Vogue, Seventeen, and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as window dressing and book illustration.
1952-54   He receives the Art Directors Club medal and the Certificate of Excellence from the American Institute of Graphic Arts for his commercial art.
1958-60   Establishes Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc.
1961-62   Warhol starts his celebrated thirty-two Campbell’s Soup Cans, and follows this with the Disasters series, paintings of Coke bottles, Elvis, and Marilyn Monroe.
1963-65   Warhol produces the Mona Lisa series, including Thirty are Better than One, and the Electric Chair, Race Riot, and Jackie pictures. He sets up the Factory in a former fire station on East 87th street. Produces his first films, including Empire, Batman, The Thirteen Most Beautiful Girls, and The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys.
1966-67   Produces the Cows, Chelsea Girls film, and the Electric Chair suite as well as the Velvet Underground’s first album.
1968-70   Seriously wounded in shooting by Valerie Solanas, Factory member and founder of S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men). Survives but never fully recovers from his wounds.
1970-72   His work is shown in major museum retrospectives across the world. Produces his Mao series, and the films Heat, and Flesh for Frankenstein. Warhol’s mother Julia dies at the age of 80.
1973-76   Begins to assemble Time Capsules, boxes filled with everyday objects, which he stores away. Works on Ladies and Gentlemen, and Skulls.
1977-78   Produces the Celebrity portraits, and the Hammer and Sickle series. The dadaist action Oxidation and Shadow paintings follow.
1979-81   Works on the first Joseph Beuys portraits, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, Reversals, Crosses, Dollar Signs, Guns, Knives, and Fate Presto. ‘Andy Warhol’s TV’ shown on cable television.
1982-85   Produces Collaboration Works with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente, Animals, Renaissance, Munch, and Rorschach paintings. His Ads pictures follow. Produces his Invisible Sculpture work at ‘Area’ nightclub.
1986   Produces the Lenin and Camouflage pictures, and new self-portraits.
1987   On the 22 February, Warhol unexpectedly dies due to complications
following a gall bladder operation and an allergic reaction to penicillin.


Selected exhibitions

1952   'Andy Warhol: Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote’, Hugo gallery, New York, USA.
1954   3 Exhibitions (including a group show and the ‘Origami” show), Loft Gallery, New York, USA.
1956   ‘Recent Drawings USA’ [Group Show], Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
1957   'A Show of Golden Pictures by Andy Warhol’, Bodley Gallery, New York, USA.
1959   'Andy Warhol: Wild Raspberries’, Bodley Gallery, New York, USA.
1962   'Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans <ja, [32 Soup Can canvases : Andy Warhol's first solo pop art exhibition, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
‘The new Realists’ [group show], Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol’, [Andy Warhol first solo NY pop art exhibition], Stable Gallery, New York, USA.
1963   'Six Painters and the Object ‘ [group show], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. USA.
‘Andy Warhol’ [Elvis Portraits], Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
‘Popular Image’ [group show], ICA, London, England.
1964   'Warhol’ [Andy Warhol’s first European show], Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France.
Warhol’ [Brillo and Campbell’s Heinz boxes: Warhol first sculpture show], Stable Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol [Flowers]’, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA.
1965   'Andy Warhol [Flowers]’, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France.
1966   'The Photographic Image’ [group show], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol: Wallpaper and Silver Clouds’, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol. Holy Cow! Silver Clouds!! Holy Cow!’, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA.
1967   'Six Self Portraits’, United States Pavilion Expo ’67, Montreal, Canada.
‘Andy Warhol: The Thirteen Most Wanted Man’, Galerie Hans Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
1968   'Andy Warhol’, Moderna Musset, Stockholm, then travelling to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle in Bern and the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway.
‘Andy Warhol: Most Wanted Man’, Rowan Gallery, London, England.
1969   ‘Pop Art’ [Group Show], Hayward Gallery, London, England.
1970   ‘Andy Warhol’, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, USA; travelling to Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, USA; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; the Netherlands; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Tate Gallery, London, England; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
1972   ‘Warhol: Maos, Zehn Bildnisse von Mao Tse-tung’, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.
1974   ‘Warhol’, Art Center, Milwuakee, USA.
1977   Andy Warhol’, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol: The American Indian’, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.
1978   ‘Andy Warhols: Athletes’, ICA, London, England.
1979   ‘Andy Warhol: Shadows’, Heiner Friedrich Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
1980   ‘Joseph Beuys by Andy Warhol’, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
1982   ‘Andy Warhol: Dollar Signs’, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA.
1984   ‘Andy Warhol: Renaissance Paintings’, Waddington Graphics, London, England.
1985   'Warhol, Basquiat: paintings’, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA.
1986   ‘Andy Warhol: Disaster Paintings 1963’, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA.
1987   ‘Andy Warhol: Skulls 1976’, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA.
1991   ‘Andy Warhol – 1982-87’, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1993   ‘Andy Warhol: Portraits of the ‘70s and ‘80s’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
1994   ‘Andy Warhol: The Last Supper Paintings’, Dia Centre for the Arts, New York, USA.
1997   ‘Andy Warhol Gun Paintings’, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England.
1998   ‘Andy Warhol: Shadows’, Dia Centre for the Arts, New York, USA.
1999   ‘Andy Warhol: Paintings and Sculpture’, Anthony d’Offay Gallery London, England.
2002   ‘Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol: Flowers’, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
Andy Warhol, Robert Sandelson, London, England
‘Andy Warhol, Retrospective’ MOCA, Los Angeles, USA.
‘Andy Warhol Retrospective’ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, travelling to Tate Modern, London, England.
2004   ‘Andy Warhol, Late Paintings’ Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills,USA.
2005   ‘Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures’. MOMA, New York, USA.
2006   ‘The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984’the Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA.