Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Andy Warhol © Warhol was an US painter, film-maker and author, and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents had emigrated to the USA from Ruthenia, a region now in the Slovak Republic. Between 1945 and 1949 Warhol studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1949, he moved to New York and changed his name to Warhol.