Last updated: 27 October 2026
Andy Warhol is the Pittsburgh-born artist who turned soup cans, celebrities and car crashes into Pop Art. Here you will find our take on his work, where to see it in the UK, and what you can buy.
Our take on Andy Warhol
Warhol started as one of New York’s most successful commercial illustrators in the 1950s, then moved into fine art in the early 1960s. His Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) “created a buzz in the art world that launched Warhol as a celebrity”, according to The Andy Warhol Museum.
He worked from photographs and source images for the rest of his life, through celebrity portraits, the “death and disaster” paintings, films such as Sleep (1963) and Empire (1964), and Interview magazine. He asked to be taken at face value: “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
Tate holds around 290 of his works. Its 2020 Tate Modern retrospective book is still on sale at £25.
Andy Warhol: the essentials
- Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh on 6 August 1928, the youngest of three sons of Slovak immigrants, according to The Andy Warhol Museum.
- Graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pictorial Design in 1949, then moved to New York.
- Made films from 1963, and produced the multimedia show The Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground.
- Shot and wounded by Valerie Solanas at his studio on 3 June 1968; he co-founded Interview magazine the following year.
- Made over 150 collaborative canvases with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the mid-1980s.
- Died in 1987. Tate holds around 290 of his works.
Andy Warhol in the UK
- Tate holds around 290 Warhol works. Check Tate’s artist page for what is on display.
- We found no current Andy Warhol exhibition in the UK.
Where to buy Andy Warhol
Original Warhol prints sell through auction houses and dealers. Most cheap “Warhol prints” online are unofficial posters. From UK museum shops:
- Andy Warhol exhibition book, £25: the paperback for Tate Modern’s 2020 retrospective, by Gregor Muir and Yilmaz Dziewior, from the Tate shop.
Andy Warhol FAQs
Where was Andy Warhol born?
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 6 August 1928, as Andrew Warhola.
What is Andy Warhol known for?
Pop Art paintings and prints of consumer goods and celebrities, including Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), plus films and Interview magazine.
Did Warhol work with Basquiat?
Yes. The two made over 150 collaborative canvases in the mid-1980s, according to The Andy Warhol Museum.
Where can I see Warhol in the UK?
Tate holds around 290 of his works; check its artist page for what is on display.
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Main image: Andy Warhol at the Jewish Museum, New York, 1980. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress. Cropped and framed by CoolCuration. Exhibition dates and prices last checked: 27 October 2026.
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