Roy Lichtenstein - Biography

Born: New York, NY: (1923 - 1997)

Education: Arts Students League, NY, 1939; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, BFA, 1946, MFA 1949

Teaching: Instructor, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1946-51; Instructor, State University of Oswego, 1957-60; Instructor, Douglas college, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1960-63

Awards: Kyoto Prize, Inamori Fund, Creative Art Award, Japan's Highest Lifetime Achievement Award, $530,000, 1995

Recent Exhibitions: Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1993, Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada, 1993; Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1993-94; Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada 1994;Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, 1994; University of California, Irvine Fine Art Gallery, CA, 1994; California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1994,95; State University of New Stanford University, T.W. Stanford Art Gallery, CA, 1994,95; Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1994,95; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, 1994,95; Dallas Museum of Art, TX, 1995; Clark College, Index Gallery, Vancouver, WA 1995

Collections: Museum of Modern Art, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, Y: Tate gallery, London, England; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Pasadena Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY