Exhibitions
- Andy Warhol / Ai Wei Wei, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2016)
- YES!YES!YES! Warholmania in München, Museum Brandhorst (2015)
- Warhol: Headlines, MMK, Frankfurt am Main (2012)
- Motion Pictures, MoMA, New York (2010)
- Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg (2009)
- Warhol Live, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (2008)
- Warhol, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Tate Modern London, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
- Andy Warhol, Albertina, Vienna (2006)
- Warhol, Tate Modern, London (2002)
- Andy Warhol, Kunstmuseum Basel (1998)
- Mirror of his time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1996)
- Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris (1990)
- A Retrospective, MoMA New York (1989)
- Fotografien, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1980)
- Das Zeichnerische Werk, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1976)
Public Collections
- The Guggenheim, New York
- Metropolian Museum of Art, New York
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- Museum Brandhorst, Munich
- Tate Modern, London
- The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
- Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Albertina, Vienna
| 1928 | Born in Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania as Andrew Warhola |
| 1945-1949 | Studies at the „Carnegie-Institute of Technology“ in Pittsburgh. |
| 1949 | Move to New York. He calls himself Andy Warhol. He immediately finds work as a commercial artist. |
| 1952 | First solo exhibition |
| 1960 | Warhol turn his attention towards painting: First paintings with comic-strip figures, also the first advertisement and Coca-Cola images. |
| 1962 | Warhols big series of pictures develop: Dance diagrams, Do-it-yourself pictures, Campbell’s soup cans, star portraits of amongst others Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. As of August Warhol works with the screen print. |
| 1963 | Warhols studio becomes known under the name of „the Factory". This art factory is completely decorated with silver color and silver foil. Since then Warhol wears a silver colored wig, which becomes his distinctive trademark. Purchase of a 16-mm camera and first films. More than 70 films emerge during the following years. |
| 1968 | On June 3, 1968 Warhol is shot down in the „Factory“ by Valery Solanas, a militant feminist, and critically wounded. He spends two months in hospital. |
| 1972-1975 | Warhol once again turns his attention towards painting. |
| Since 1972 | Warhol works on the Mao portraits. From now on he takes on portrait orders of famous and rich contemporaries on a regular basis. |
| 1980-1986 | During the 80s extended travels amongst others to Düsseldorf, Paris, Stuttgart, Bonn, Munich, Vienna. First portraits of Joseph Beuys. In Cologne his Cathedral portraits with diamond dust are shown. |
| 1981 | Myths pictures |
| 1982 | Goethe portraits |
| 1987 | Beethoven portraits |
| 1987 | Deceased in New York |