1914          Born in Warren, Minnesota
1932-34     St. Paul School of Art, MN (Studied under Cameron Booth and Leroy Turner)
1934-35     Art Student's League-Scholarship, NY (Studied under Vaclav Vytlacil)
1935-37     Employed by the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project, Mural                        Division; New York, NY
1936          Mural for the Northrup Auditorium at University of Minnesota-WPA Federal Art                    Project
1937-38     Chicago Bauhaus, IL (Studied under Lazlo Maholy-Nagy and Alexander                              Archipemko)
1938-40     Hans Hoffman Summer School in Provincetown, MA
                  Meets William Baziotes (shared an interest in automatist practices)
1938-39     Guggenheim Fellowship, NY (Baroness Hilla Rebay)
                  Allowed Kamrowski to move to NY (May 1938-July 1939) received                                      $100/month
1940          Muralist, Federal Art Project, New York City - signs up in the same unit as                          Jackson Pollock
1940-41     Collaborative Painting by Baziotes, Kamrowski and Pollock
1941          Meets Andre Breton - marked the beginning of his dedication to Surrealism
1942          Matta creates splinter group of American artists interested in abstract                                  surrealism with Baziotes, Busa, Kamrowski, Motherwell & Pollock            
1943          Married Marianna Fargione - Summer spent in Woodstock, NY
1943          VVV, no. 2-3 - published 2 drawings
1944          Lived in St. Mary's, GA during the winter, later returned to New York
                  Kamrowski's son Felix is born
1945          Death of Marianna Fargione
1946          Relocates to Ann Arbor, MI - Appointed to the faculty at The University of                            Michigan
1948          Married Edith Dines (divorce 1962)
1949          Rackham Grant for study and research in Paris
                  Katherine Bromley Award from the Academy of Arts, Science, and Letters
1950          Second son, Kirby born
1955          Participated in the International Surrealist Festival at the University of                                Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1957          Sabbatical leave from U of M - traveled to Europe to survey contemporary                          painting with stays in Paris, Barcelona & London
1958          Organized the Hylozoist Group
1960          Rackham Grant to pursue painting on grids and domes
1961          University of Michigan Faculty Research Fellowship
1965          Marries Mary Jane Dodman
1971          Rackham Grant to explore mobile sculpture and windmills as an art form
1977          Heller Distinguished Professorship, University of Michigan
1982          Retires from the University of Michigan
2004          Dies at his home in Ann Arbor at the age of 90