Catherine Opie

(American, born 1961)

Catherine Opie is an influential contemporary American photographer. Best known for her color portraits, Opie’s work explores the strata of our society by focusing on particular groups such as high school football players, S&M leather participants, and LGBT communities. Often politically charged, her photographs feature a central figure occupying a flattened space, highlighting her subject’s inner life through the removal of external detail. Throughout her practice, Opie investigates queer culture and personal history, creating work that is often autobiographical and informed by her experiences as a lesbian woman. In describing her iconic self-portrait, in which she appears bloodied and with the word ‘pervert’ carved into her chest, she explained, “I made the piece out of a reaction to all of the sudden gays and lesbians’ bringing on the ‘normal’ dialogue to us,” and wanted to “push the boundaries a little bit here about what you guys think normal is.” Still living and working on the west coast, Opie attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts for her bachelor's and master's degrees, respectively. Born in Sandusky, OH in 1961, she has been the recipient of tremendous critical acclaim, including retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008 and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2011.

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Catherine Opie Artworks

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UNTITLED #5 (ICEHOUSES), 2001

Catherine Opie

UNTITLED #5 (ICEHOUSES), 2001

Sale Date: October 3, 2018

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Emily, Sts, & Becky, Durham, North Carolina..., 1998

Catherine Opie

Emily, Sts, & Becky, Durham, North Carolina..., 1998

Sale Date: September 26, 2018

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Untitled # 14 (Wall Street), 2001

Catherine Opie

Untitled # 14 (Wall Street), 2001

Sale Date: September 26, 2018

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Untitled # 9 (Wall Street), 2000–2001

Catherine Opie

Untitled # 9 (Wall Street), 2000–2001

Sale Date: September 26, 2018

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James, 1993

Catherine Opie

Sale Date: September 20, 2018

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Surfer for One Drop, 2018

Catherine Opie

Surfer for One Drop, 2018

Sale Date: September 21, 2018

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John, 2007

Catherine Opie

Sale Date: July 31, 2018

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Ron Athey/Human Printing Press with Darryl..., 2000

Catherine Opie

Ron Athey/Human Printing Press with Darryl..., 2000

Sale Date: July 18, 2018

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SURFERS, 2003

Catherine Opie

SURFERS, 2003

Sale Date: March 5, 2018

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SHIP AND WHALE, 2006

Catherine Opie

SHIP AND WHALE, 2006

Sale Date: March 5, 2018

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UNTITLED, 1999

Catherine Opie

UNTITLED, 1999

Sale Date: November 15, 2017

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Untitled #8, 2011

Catherine Opie

Untitled #8, 2011

Sale Date: October 10, 2017

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Untitled #6, 2010

Catherine Opie

Untitled #6, 2010

Sale Date: October 10, 2017

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Untitled #27 (from Freeway Series), 1994

Catherine Opie

Untitled #27 (from Freeway Series), 1994

Sale Date: May 21, 2017

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Untitled #19, 1999

Catherine Opie

Untitled #19, 1999

Sale Date: May 21, 2017

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Portrait Sitting

Catherine Opie

Portrait Sitting

Sale Date: May 21, 2017

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Millie Wilson, 1994

Catherine Opie

Millie Wilson, 1994

Sale Date: April 25, 2017

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UNTITLED #6 (ICEHOUSES), 2001

Catherine Opie

UNTITLED #6 (ICEHOUSES), 2001

Sale Date: March 2, 2017

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Diane di Masa, 1994

Catherine Opie

Diane di Masa, 1994

Sale Date: February 23, 2017

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Idexa, 1993

Catherine Opie

Sale Date: February 23, 2017

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Hoovering Birds (from Two x Two for Aids and , 2009

Catherine Opie

Hoovering Birds (from Two x Two for Aids and , 2009

Sale Date: December 16, 2016

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Untitled *5 (Inauguration Portraits)..., 2008–2009

Catherine Opie

Untitled *5 (Inauguration Portraits)..., 2008–2009

Sale Date: November 25, 2016

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Untitled (SideStreet Projects, Pasadena, CA), 1997

Catherine Opie

Untitled (SideStreet Projects, Pasadena, CA), 1997

Sale Date: November 20, 2016

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Untitled, from the Billboard Series, 1997, 1997

Catherine Opie

Untitled, from the Billboard Series, 1997, 1997

Sale Date: November 5, 2016

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