TIMELINE OF
ANDY WARHOL’S LIFE

1928 Born Andrew Warhola on August 6 in Pittsburgh
to Julia and Andrej Warhola

1936-1937 Begins free art classes at Carnegie Museum; has rheumatic fever

1945 Enrolls in the Department of Painting and Design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University)

1949 Graduates from Carnegie Institute of Technology; moves to New York and begins career as commercial artist

1956 Has shoe ad drawing included in the Museum of Modern Art’s show Recent Drawings, U.S.A.

1960 Moves into town house at 1342 Lexington Avenue to have more room to do serious artwork

1962 Has soup can paintings exhibited in Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles; begins paintings of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe; starts to use silk-screen technique

1964 Moves studio into East 47th Street building that becomes known as “The Factory;” has “Brillo box” exhibition at
the Stable Gallery

1966 Begins working with the Velvet Underground and features them in touring multimedia shows Andy Warhol’s Up-Tight and Exploding Plastic Inevitable; The Chelsea Girls, his most successful movie, opens

1968 The Factory moves to Union Square; Andy is shot by
Valerie Solanas and barely survives

1969 First issue of Interview magazine appears

1980 Publishes POPism: The Warhol ’60s

1983 Collaborates on paintings with Jean-Michel Basquiat

1985 Appears on TV shows The Love Boat and Saturday
Night Live

1987 Dies on February 22 after gallbladder surgery