Ronald Brooks Kitaj — Biography



1932 Born
2007 Died

 

 1932          Born in Cleveland,Ohio, U.S.A

1950-51    Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York

1951-52    Academy of Fine Art, Vienna

1957-59    Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University

1959-61    Royal College of Art London

1976         Organised The Human Clay, controversial exhibition of figurative paintings at Hayward Gallery

1978-79   Artist in residence at Dartmouth College, US
                Returns to London

1981-82   Lived and worked in Paris for a year

1982        Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1983        Marries Sandra Fisher

1985        Elected to the Royal Academy

1989        Published First Diasporist Manifesto

1996        Commissioned portrait of Mahler for Vienna Opera

1997        Moves to Los Angeles

1999        Exhibition at the National Gallery, London: Kitaj In The Aura of Cézanne And Other Masters
                Lectures on Van Gogh at LACMA: My Vincent

2001        Begins to write his Autobiography, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter

2004        Lectures at UCLA and USC

2005        Second Diasporist Manifesto “Work in Progress” published by Marlborough, New York