American artist Alex Katz attended The Cooper Union, New York, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Katz creates flat, brightly-coloured portrait groups, often featuring his wife Ada and son Vincent, and friends, including poets, writers and artists from the New York School. He gained international recognition following retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986 and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1988. A solo exhibition of Katz’s work was held at IMMA in 2007.