- Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, PA - When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist. - " As Warhol himself put it, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way again." - Warhol opened his own art studio - Warhol's meaning of his artwork was to be very 'pop' or popualar because he wanted to have his work known everywhere.