Roy Lichtenstein's Biography

1923 - 1997

1923 Born in New York, New York

1940 Studies at Art Student's League, New York (summer); enters Ohio State University, Columbus

1943-46 Serves in the U.S. Army in Europe

1946 Returns to Ohio State University; receives B.F.A.

1949 Receives M.F.A. from Ohio State University, continues as instructor until 1951

1951-57 Works on various free-lance design jobs in Cleveland while painting

1957-60 Teaches at New York State College of Education, Oswego, New York

1960-63 Teaches at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1964 Moves to New York City; resigns from Rutgers to devote full time to painting

1979 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

1997 Dies September 29, New York

Selected Exhibitions and Releases

2002 Included in exhibition, Modern and Contemporary Art, Richard Gray Galler 4y, Chicago, IL

Included in exhibition, Images of Women, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Included in exhibition, From Stone to Foam, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

2001 Included in Exhibition, Thirty-Five Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York

1999 Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1994 Traveling retrospective exhibition, A Retrospective of the Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, originating at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C

1993 Retrospective exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1991 Included in traveling exhibition, Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the Eighties, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; included in exhibition, Back to the Future: International Prints, 1985-1991, at Australian National Galle ry, Canberra

1990 Solo exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein: La Grafica, at Modern and Contemporary Museum Trento, Italy

1989 Included in traveling exhibition, First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists, originating at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1987 Traveling retrospective exhibition, The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, originating at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986 Included in traveling exhibition, After Matisse, organized by Independent Curators, New York

1980 Traveling retrospective exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, originating at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

1978 Solo exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein: The Modern Work 1965-1970, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1975 Retrospective drawing exhibition, Dessi n Sans Bande, Centre national d'art contemporain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1966 Represents United States at the 33rd Venice Biennale

1962 First solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

Selected Museums

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Tate Gallery, London

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota