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“Everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes”
Born as Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 to a working class Slovakian immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was the youngest of three children.
During his youth he suffered from chorea, a neurological disorder, and was frequently bed-ridden. During these times, he found distraction in popular celebrity magazines and DC comic books, which later became...
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“Everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes”
Born as Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 to a working class Slovakian immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was the youngest of three children.
During his youth he suffered from chorea, a neurological disorder, and was frequently bed-ridden. During these times, he found distraction in popular celebrity magazines and DC comic books, which later became his first source of artistic inspiration.
In 1937 the artist attended drawing classes at the Carnegie Museum, and from 1945 until 1949 he studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. It was at this institution that he met American painter Philip Pearlstein, with whom he moved to New York in 1949.
In New York, Warhol easily found work as an illustrator, and had his first taste of success. As a commercial artist, he worked on several projects commissioned by companies such as RCA Records, Glamour Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, NBC, Tiffany & Co. and Vogue. He also worked for the department stores Bonwit Teller and I. Miller, for which he designed eye-catching window displays.
In the 1950s Warhol moved from graphic art to painting and drawing, and in 1952 held his first solo exhibition titled “Fifteen drawings based on the writing of Truman Capote” at the Hugo Gallery. Over time, he started using photo-based techniques like silkscreen printing in his painting process, and in 1956, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, included some of his works in a group exhibition.
Following the turbulent times of the 1960s, Warhol produced several works inspired by its events, some of which are now iconic of his extensive practice. It was during this period that the artist started following the Pop Art movement, wherein the main subjects were mass produced objects and idols.
Around the mid-1960s, Warhol also started working on videos and films in ‘The Factory’, his silver painted and foil draped studio in Manhattan. Among his early films are “Sleep” (1963), “Blow Job” (1964), “Empire” (1963) and “Kiss” (1963-1964). However it was the pseudo-documentary “Chelsea Girls” (1966) that established him as a talent to be reckoned with in the American film industry. Through his career, Warhol would make almost 600 films and 2500 videos.
Following the exhibition “Flower” in Paris, the artist momentarily retired from painting but continued creating sculptures, prints and films. He also became interested in the field of music and performance, and created the travelling multi-media spectacle, “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable” with the Velvet Underground and Nico.
In 1968, Warhol was almost killed when Valerie Solanas, an aspiring playwright and radical feminist author who appeared in one of his films, shot at him. This event changed Warhol’s life and art forever, prompting him to start to obsessively documenting and recording it, and leading to the creation of close to 3,400 audio tapes. Part of the content of these tapes was published in 1987 under the title “The Warhol Diaries”.
Through his career, Warhol managed to infiltrate and deeply influence the worlds of fashion, media, celebrity and music in addition to those of art and film. Amongst other things, he co-founded ‘Interview’ magazine, appeared on television in an episode of “The Love Boat”, published a book titled ‘The Philosophy of Andy Warhol’, designed Grammy-winning record covers for The Rolling Stones, signed with a modelling agency, contributed short films to “Saturday Night Live”, founded the New York Academy of Art with Stuart Pivar, and produced “Andy Warhol’s TV”.
At the height of his popularity in the 1970s, many celebrities commissioned Warhol portraits, inspired by his new coloured screen-print paintings of politicians, celebrities, sports figures, writers and others. These included John Lennon, Liza Minnelli, the Shah of Iran and Brigitte Bardot. Some of his most well-known artworks from this period include “Mao”, “Skulls”, “Camouflage”, “The Last Supper” and “Guns”.
On February 22, 1987, Warhol passed away in a New York hospital following a routine gall bladder surgery. In his honour, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Andy Warhol Museum were respectively founded in 1987 and 1994. The Foundation, created in accordance with his will from the sale of his estate, still remains one of the largest philanthropic visual arts organizations in the United States. In 1991, the artist’s brother John helped establish the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Slovakia, close to the village in which their parents were born.
Andy Warhol, an incomparable artist, still remains an inspiration to several contemporary visual artists and producers, and continues to be regarded as an icon in the fields of graphic design, film-making and photography amongst others.
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Born
July 06, 1928
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died
February 22, 1987
New York
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
1987 'Andy Warhol: Arbeiten/Works...
Selected Exhibitions
1987 'Andy Warhol: Arbeiten/Works 1962-1986', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1987 'Andy Warhol: Skulls 1976', Dia Art Foundation, New York
1987 'Andy Warhol: A Memorial', Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton
1987 'Andy Warhol: Recent Work', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1987 'Lenin by Warhol', Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich
1987 'Remembering Andy: Warhol's Recent Works', Watari Gallery, Tokyo
1987 'Andy Warhol: "Ich erkannte dafs alles, was ich tue, mit dem Ton zusammenhangt', Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
1987 'Warhol: Shadows', The Menil Collection, Richmond Hall, Houston
1987 'Andy Warhol: Il Cenacolo', Refettorio delle Stelline, Milan
1986 'Andy Warhol: Disaster Paintings 1963', Dia Art Foundation, New York
1986 'Andy Warhol: Major Prints', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1986 'Andy Warhol: Self-Portraits', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1986 'Andy Warhol: Photographs', Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1986 'Hand-Painted Images: Andy Warhol 1960-1962', Dia Art Foundation, New York
1986 'Andy Warhol: Oxidations Paintings', Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York
1985 'Andy Warhol: Reigning Queens 1985', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1985 'Ads', Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of NY at Old Westbury, New York
1985 'Warhol, Basquiat Paintings', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1985 'The Silkscreens of Andy Warhol: 1962-1985', Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
1985 'Andy Warhol: Paintings 1962-1985 & Early Prints', Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologn
1985 'Vesuvius by Warhol', Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
1984 'Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Andy Warhol', Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1984 'Portraits of Ingrid Bergman by Andy Warhol', Galerie Borjeson, Malmo
1984 'Andy Warhol: Renaissance Paintings', Waddington Graphics, London
1984 'Andy Warhol: Details of Renaissance Paintings', Schellman & Kluser Gallery, New York
1983 'Warhol's Animals: Species at Risk', American Museum of Natural History, New York; travelled to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1983 'Andy Warhol in the 1980's', Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; travelled to the Aspen Center for the Visual Arts in Aspen
1983 'Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1983 'Andy Warhol: Paintings for Children', Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1982 'Andy Warhol: Dollar Signs', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1982 'Andy Warhol: Myths [prints]', Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1982 'Group show with Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly', National Galerie, Berlin
1982 'Andy Warhol: Dollar Signs', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1982 'Andy Warhol: Myths [prints]', Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1982 'Andy Warhol: Schweizer Portraits', Kunstsammlung Thun, Thun, Switzerland
1982 'Andy Warhol: Portrait Screenprints 1965-1980', Dover Museum, Dover; travelled to the Wansbeck Square Gallery in Ashington, the Usher Gallery in Lincoln and the Arts Center in Aberystwyth
1982-83 'Andy Warhol: Guns, Knives, Crosses', Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid
1982 'Andy Warhol Reversals', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York:
1982 'Warhol verso de Chirico', Campidoglio, Rome
1982 'Warhol au plus juste', Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice
1982 'Andy Warhol: Dollar Signs/Knives/Guns', Castelli-Goodman, East Hampton, NY
1981 'Andy Warhol: The Shoe Portfolio [prints]', Watari Gallery, Tokyo
1981 'Warhol '80 Reversal Serie', Museum Moderner Kunst, Museum des 20, Vienna
1981 'Andy Warhol's Myths [prints]', Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
1981 'Andy Warhol at Colorado State University', Colorado State University, Fort Collins
1981 'Andy Warhol: Bilder 1961 bis 1981', Hanover: Kestner-Gellschaft; travelled to the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich
1981 'Andy Warhol: A Print Retrospective [prints]', Castelli Graphics, New York
1981-82 'Andy Warhol: Myths 1981 [prints]', Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1980-81 'Andy Warhol: Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century', The Jewish Museum, New York; travelled to the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio
1980 'Beuys by Warhol', Schellman & Kluser, Munich
1980 'Andy Warhol: Reversals', Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1980 'Joseph Beuys by Andy Warhol', Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1980 'Andy Warhol: Fotografien', Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1980 'Andy Warhol: Exposures', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1980 'Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century', University of Miami Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables FL
1980 'Andy Warhol: Photographs', Lisson Gallery, London
1980 'Andy Warhol: Oeuvres recentes, Reversal', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1980 'Andy Warhol: Paintings and Prints', Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
1979 'Andy Warhol: Multiple Images: Landscapes, City Spaces, Country Places', Arts Gallery, Baltimore
1979-80 'Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1979 'Andy Warhol', Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; travelled to the University Art Museum in Berkeley
1979 'Andy Warhol: Skulls', Massimo Valsecchi, Milan
1979 'Andy Warhol: Shadows', Heiner Friedrich Gallery, New York
1979 'Andy Warhol: Torsos', Ace Gallery, Vancouver
1978-79 'Andy Warhol: Early Paintings', Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1978 'Athletes by Andy Warhol', Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1978 'Andy Warhol: Portraits', University Gallery Southern Methodist University, Dallas
1978 'Andy Warhol', Kunsthaus, Zurich; travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek
1978 'Andy Warhol: Athletes', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1978 'Andy Warhol: Torsos', Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
1977-78 'Athletes by Andy Warhol', Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
1977 'Andy Warhol', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1977 'Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Andy Warhol from 1962-1976', Pyramid Galleries, Washington, D.C
1977 'Andy Warhol', Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto
1977 'Andy Warhol: Hammer and Sickle', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1977-78 'Andy Warhol: The American Indian', Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
1977 'Andy Warhol', Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne
1977 'Andy Warhol Flash, Electric Chair, Campbell's Soup Serigraphien', Museum Folkwang, Essen
li>1976 'Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975', Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart;
travelled to the Stadtische Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, the Kunsthalle in Bremen, the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich,
the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, the Museum Moderner Kunst, Museum des 20 in Vienna and the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne
li>1976 'Andy Warhol: Animals', Arno Schefler, New York
li>1976 'Portraits of Each Other', Joint Ashow with Jamie Wyeth at Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
li>1976 'Cats and Dogs by Andy Warhol', Mayor Gallery, London
1976 'Andy Warhol: 1974-1976', Centro Internazionale di Sperimentazioni Artistiche Marie-Louis Jeanneret, Boissano
1975 'Andy Warhol: Paintings', Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1975 'Andy Warhol: Paintings 1962-1975', The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
1975 'Andy Warhol', Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis
1975 'Andy Warhol', Max Protech Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1975 'Andy Warhol: Hand-Colored Flowers', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1975 'Major Warhol retrospective', Kunsthaus, Zurich
1974 'Andy Warhol', Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto
1974 'Andy Warhol: Mao', Musee Galliera, Paris
1974 'Andy Warhol', Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1974 'Warhol', Art Center, Milwaukee
1974 'Andy Warhol: Old Paintings, New Prints', Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1974 'Andy Warhol', Galleria Il Fauno, Milan
1974 'Andy Warhol', Mayor Gallery, London
1974 'Andy Warhol', Museo de Arte Moderno, Begota
1973 'Andy Warhol', New Gallery, Cleveland
1973 'Andy Warhol', Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 'Andy Warhol', John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1972-73 'Andy Warhol', Galleria Galatea, Turin
1972 'Warhol Maos, Zehn Bildnisse von Mao Tse-tung', Kunstmuseum, Basel
1972 'Andy Warhol: Mao Prints', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1972 'Andy Warhol (films)', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1972 'Andy Warhol', Modern Art Agency, Naples
1971 'Andy Warhol', Cenobio-Visualita, Milan
1971 'Andy Warhol: His Early Works (1947-1959)', Gotham Book Mart Gallery, New York
1971 'Andy Warhol: Graphik, 1964 bis 1970', Museum Haus Lange, Kreffeld
1970 'Andy Warhol', Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena;
travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven,
the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris,
The Tate Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
1970 'Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol', Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1969-70 'New York Painting and Sculpture [group show]', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1969-70 'Painting in New York: 1944 - 1969 [group show]', Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1969 'Andy Warhol', Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1969 'Andy Warhol', Castelli/Whitney Graphics, New York
1969 'Pop Art [group show]', Hayward Gallery, London
1968 'Andy Warhol', Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
travelled to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle in Bern and the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo) Warhol's first international retrospective of art
1968 'Andy Warhol: Most Wanted Men', Rowan Gallery, London
1968 'Serial Imagery [group show]', Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1967-68 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting [group show]', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1967-68 'International group show', Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1967-68 'Sao Paulo, Brazil: Museu de Arte Moderna
1967 'Kuhe und Schwebende Kissen von Andy Warhol', Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1967 'Thirteen Most Wanted Men exhibited', Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris
1967 'Six self-portraits', United States Pavilion Expo '67, Montreal
1967 'Andy Warhol: Most Wanted', Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1967 'Andy Warhol: The Thirteen Most Wanted Men', Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1967 'Andy Warhol: The Thirteen Most Wanted Men', Galerie Hans Neuendorf, Hamburg
1966 'The Photographic Image [group show]', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1966 'Andy Warhol: Wallpaper and Silver Clouds', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1966 'Andy Warhol [included Silver Clouds]', Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1966 'Andy Warhol', The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1966 'Andy Warhol. Holy Cow! Silver Clouds!! Holy Cow!', Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1965 'Pop art, nouveau realisme [group show]', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1965 'Andy Warhol [Flowers]', Galerie Ileana Sonabend, Paris
1965 'Andy Warhol', Galeria Rubbers, Buenos Aires
1965 'Andy Warhol', Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto
1965 'Andy Warhol', University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia
1964 'Warhol [Andy Warhol's first European show]', Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1964 'Amerikansk popkonst [group show]', Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1964 'Most Wanted Men [In mid-April the panels were covered by silver paint]', New York World's Fair
1964 'Warhol [Brillo/Campbell's/Heinz boxes: Andy Warhol's first sculpture show]', Stable Gallery, New York
1964 'Andy Warhol [Flowers]', Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1963 'Six Painters and the Object [group show]', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1963 'Popular Image [group show]', Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
1963 'Pop Art USA [group show]', Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1963 'Andy Warhol [Elvis portraits]', Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1963 'Popular Image [group show]', Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1962 'Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans [32 Soup Can canvases]', Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1962 'New Paintings of the Common Object [group show]', Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena CA
1962 'The New Realists [group show]', Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1962 'Andy Warhol [Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills]', Stable Gallery, New York
1961 Andy Warhol's first exhibition in the 1960s was a window display in one of Bonwit Teller's Fifty-seventh Street windows, in which five paintings were shown for one week in April 1961. Most window displays were coordinated by the display director, Gene Moore, but this one was initiated and installed by Clinton Hamilton, who knew Warhol through Nathan Gluck. Hamilton has recalled that although he visited Warhol's studio and selected paintings for the window, Warhol delivered different works. Displays were usually on view for one week and changed on Tuesdays. Since the source of Little King is dated April 3, it is most likely that the paintings were on view the week of either April 11 or April 18. Warhol's window seems to have been little noticed at the time." (RN469)
1961 The first public showing of Warhol's Pop canvases was as part of a window display at Bonwit Teller. The paintings shown were Advertisement,
Before and After (1), Little King, Superman and Saturday's Popeye, Bonwit Teller window, New York
1959 'Andy Warhol: Wild Raspberries', Bodley Gallery, New York
1957 'A Show of Golden Pictures by Andy Warhol', Bodley Gallery, New York
1956 'Drawings for a Boy-Book by Andy Warhol', Bodley Gallery, New York
1956 'Recent Drawings USA [Group Show]', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956 'Andy Warhol: The Golden Slipper Show or Shoes Shoe in America', Bodley Gallery, New York
1954 Loft Gallery, New York
1954 First of two solo exhibitions by Warhol of works on paper sometimes referred to as his "Origami" show, Loft Gallery, New York
1954 Drawings of the dancer, John Butler, Loft Gallery, New York
1952 'Andy Warhol: Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote', Hugo Gallery, New York
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