Lichtenstein, Roy

American painter, sculptor and printmaker, and one of the most popular Pop artists, of all time. Trained at the Art Students League in New York and then at Ohio State University, Columbus, initially worked in Abstract Expressionist style. After changing to Pop art, his first solo-exhibition was held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, in New York. Similar to other Pop artists of his time, he used images from the commercial world, but in his own personal style. His most characteristic works are where he creates comic strips in very large formats, while emphasizing the primary colors and the dots associated with the low cost comic book printing. Example of such artwork includes Whaam! at the Tate Gallery, London. He later began creating Pop versions of artworks by several modern art masters, like Mondrian.

He has also been associated with several large-scale public commissions, such as Mermaid at the Theatre of Performing Arts, Miami and Mural with Blue Brushstrokes, at the Equitable Building, New York.

His works can be viewed at leading American museums like MOMA and Guggenheim, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, MOCA, Los Angeles, and MFA, Boston.

Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries

2004   Madrid, Reina Sofía, Roy Lichtenstein -solo London, Hayward Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein -solo Neuss, Langen Foundation Hombroich, Bilder der Stille - Eröffnungsausstellung Dresden, Kunst Haus, International Exhibition of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 20 years Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, AT WAR Vienna, Albertina, Pop Art & Minimalismus Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Pontus Hultén Collection Columbus, OH, Wexner Center for the Arts, Splat Boom Pow! 2003   Humlebæk/Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Roy Lichtenstein -solo Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, Roy Lichtenstein -solo New York, Metropolitan Museum, Roy Lichtenstein -solo Dusseldorf, NRW-Forum, AUTO-NOM Graz, Neue Galerie, SUPPORT 1 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Gunter Sachs Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mid-Century Masterworks from the Collection Dusseldorf, museum kunst palast, The Power of Pop Aachen, Ludwig Forum, aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt Bilbao, Guggenheim, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons 2002   Helsinki, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art -solo Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst -solo Munich, Galerie Terminus -solo Liverpool, Tate, Shopping 2001   New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash -solo New York, Gagosian Gallery - Madison -solo New York, Leo Castelli -solo 2000   New York, Paula Cooper Gallery -solo 1999   Zurich, Lawrence Rubin -solo Miami, Bass Museum of Art -solo San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -solo 1998   Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art -solo 1994   Retrospective. Guggenheim New York, NY 1993   Lüdenscheid, Galerie Friebe -solo 1987   Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum -solo Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle 1975   Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1972   Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston 1969   Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1967   Pasadena Museum Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1966   Venice Biennale Cleveland Museum of Art 1964   Gallery Ileana Sonnabend. Paris, France 1962   Leo Castelli Gallery. New York, NY 'New Realists' Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. New Painting of Common Objects show at the Pasadena Art Museum 1951   First one man show. New York, NY

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