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Catherine Opie

(American, born 1961)

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Surfers

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Untitled 'Pharmacist to the Stars', 1992

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Idexa II, 1993

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Trash, 1994

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From Here to There, 2009

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Pig Pen, 1993

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Mx. Justin Vivian Bond (Kiki DuRane), 1993

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Still from the Modernist, 2017–2022

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Biography

Timeline

1961: Born in Sandusky, Ohio
1985: BFA San Francisco Art Institute
1988: MFA CalArts
1997: Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award
1999: Washington University Freund Fellowship
2000 - 2001: Professor of Fine Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2001 - pres: Professor of Fine Art, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts
2004: Larry Aldrich Award
pres: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions

2010: “Hard Targets,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2009: "Los Angeles," The Annenberg Space for Photography, March 25-July 5, 2009
: "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West," organized by Eva
: Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 29 – June 8, 2009
: "Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports," Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, February 1 – March 29, 2009
: "In Repose: An exhibition from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Miami Beach, Florida," curated by Lorie Mertes, The Galleries at Moore, Goldie Paley Gallery Philadelphia, PA, January 26 – March 14, 2008; cat.
: "This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs," The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino CA, May 1 – October 20, 2008
: "Idle Youth," curated byRussell Ferguson, Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 26 – August 15, 2008
: "Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding," curated by Kevin Killian and Oolter Jacobsen, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, June 27 – August 2, 2008
: "War as a Way of Life," Campbell, Clayton, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, September 27 – December 19, 2008
: "Listen Darling…The World is Yours," curated by Lisa Phillips, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal, October
: "Catherine Opie: American Photographer," Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009
: "Catherine Opie The Distant Blue: Photographs from Alaska," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, October 14 – November 14, 2008
: "Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography," National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, October 17, 2008 – January 25, 2009
: "Other People: Portraits from the Grunwald and Hammer Collections," curated by Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 26, 2008 – March 22, 2009
2008: "Road Trip," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, September 19, 2008 – January 25, 2009
: "Catherine Opie," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 10 – May 17, 2008
: "Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami
: "All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy," Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
: "Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: "Global Feminisms," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
: "Darling, Take Fountain," Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
2007: “People Take Pictures of Each Other,” LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
: "Refugees of Group Selection," Franklin Parrasch, New York
: "Work Zones," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
: "Our Town," Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, NY
: "Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
: "Couples Discourse," Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
: “American Cities (Chicago),” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (solo)
: "Still Points Of The Turning World," SITE, Santa Fe 6th International Biennial
: “Catherine Opie: 1999 & In and Around Home,” The 2004 Larry Aldrich Award Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (solo)
: "Catherine Opie," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, June 4-Sept 3; travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Sept 29-Dec 30 (solo)
: “Dark Places,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2006: "The Last Time They Met," Stephe Friedman Gallery, London
: “American Cities,” Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
2005: “Anniversary Exhibition,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, March 29 – April 23, 2005
: “Bidibidobidiboo,” Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2005
2004: “26th Sao Paulo Biennial,” curated by Alfons Hug, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 25 – December 19, 2004
: “The Leopard Spots: Between Art, Performance, and Club Culture,” 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, August 7 – October 16, 2004
: “Catherine Opie: Surfers,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, January 10 – February 14 (solo)
: “Catherine Opie: Children,” Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 27 – December 4 (solo)
2002: “Catherine Opie: Icehouses,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 11 – June 15 (solo)
: “Inaugural Exhibition,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8, 2003
: “Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, September 21 - December 21
: “1999,” Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, November 10 - December 20 (solo)
: “Wall Street,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England, November 30 - January 19, 2002 (solo)
2001: “EXTRAordinary,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, December 2 - February 24, 2002
: “fe/male,” Plakat-Intervention U-Bahnstation, Braunschweiggasse, Vienna, Austria, August 1 - 31
2000: “Catherine Opie: In between here and there,” The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October 6 - November 26. (solo)
: “Catherine Opie,” The Photographers Gallery, London, England, August 9 - September 24; travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November18, 2000 - February 18, 2001. (solo)
: “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 - 2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000 - February 25, 2001.
: “Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California,” University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA, June 20 - August 6, 2000; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, November 11 - December 17, 2000;The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, January 23 - April 29, 2001
1999: “Los Angeles,” Philomene Magers Projektes & Maxmilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
: “The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, September 23, 1999 - February 27, 2000
: “Domestic,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: “Catherine Opie: A Survey,” Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3 - October 16 (solo)
: “Mini-Malls,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
: “Lost Paradise: Catherine Opie, Ellen Cantor, Joachim Koester,” Presenca Gallery, Porto, Portugal, September 26-November 1998
1998: “Love’s Body, Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, November 12, 1998 - January 17, 1999.
1997: “Catherine Opie,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 5 - Feb. 8 (solo)
: “Houses and Landscapes,” Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
: “American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity,” Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, October 20-January 18, 1998
: “Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century,” Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, June 19-August 4, 1998; Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA, September 27-December 12; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, January 31-March 21, 1999; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 1999
1996: “Lie of the Land,” curated by Elizabeth Brown, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, November 26 - February 2, 1997
: “Go West: Landscapes,” curated by John Arndt and Barbara Wiesen, Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL, November 20 - December 18
: “Houses and Landscapes,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: “Houses and Freeways,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, NY (solo)
: “A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” curated by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, December 10, 1995 - February 26, 1996; traveled to Site Santa Fe, September 13 - November 2
: “Portraits,” Parco, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1995: Portraits,” enterprise, New York, NY (solo)
: “Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia,” curated by Ralph Rugoff, Herbert F. Johnson, organized by Independent Curators International, New York, Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 17-December 17; traveled to Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January 27-March 26, 1996; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, April 12-June 1; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, June 21-September 9; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery of the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, November 4 - November 28
1994: “In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
: “Little House on the Prairie,” Marc Jancou Gallery, London
: “Portraits,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: “Portraits,” Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1993: “Invitational 93,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: “Regarding Masculinity,” Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
: “Breaking Barriers,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1992: “Wasteland,” curated by Bas Vroges, Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam III, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991: “Situation,” curated by Nayland Blake and Pam Gregg, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
: “Someone or Somebody,” curated by Simon Watson,Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Being and Having,” 494 Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1990: “A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Park, Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings,” Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA (solo)
: “All But the Obvious,” curated by Pam Gregg, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
: “Master Plan,” United States Post Office, Valencia, CA (solo)
: “Master Plan,” Mills College, Oakland, CA (solo)
1989: “New Landscapes,” curated by Williams Hipps, Angel Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1988: “Los Angeles Art Fair,” organized by L.A. Weekly, Criticsí Choice, LA Convention Center
1987: Guggenheim Gallery, Orange County, CA
1985: Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Literature

2006: Catalogue, Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 2006
: Kunitz, Daniel, “The Universal Canvas,” The New York Sun, January 19, 2006.
2005: Kunitz, Daniel, “Publisher’s Catalogue,” ArtReview, Nov/Dec 2005, pp.126-131.
: Catalogue, “Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-06”, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2005
2004: Catalogue, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, curated by Alfons Hug, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 180 –181, ill.
: Sheets, Hilarie M., “Armand Hammer’s Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los Angeles,” The New York Times, October 6, 2004, pp. B1 & B9
2003: Boriani, Glenda, “Micropolitics,” Tema Celeste, issue 96, March/April, 2003, p. 113, ill.
: Catalogue, Art and Photography, published by Phaidon, London, England, p. 124
: Muchnic, Suzanne, “With all its hang-ups, the L.A. gallery scene thrives,” Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2002
2002: Monograph, Catherine Opie: Skyways + Icehouses, essay by Douglas Fogle, published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, ills.
2001: Pinsent, Richard, “Adroitly controlled mise-en-scene at Entwistle,” The Art Newspape, December 2001, p.67, ill.
: Catalogue, Open City: Street Photographs since 1950, published by Museum of Modern Art Oxford, pp. 18, 168-173, ills. , cover
2000: Catalogue, Auto Werke, published by Hatje Cantz, with support by BMW Financial Services North America, essay by Joshua Decter, essay pp. 5-6, ills.
: “Family Business,” Flash Art, November-December 2000,pp. 48, ill.
1999: Gockel, Cornelia, “Kunst aus Kalifornien,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, December 13, 1999, p. 38, ill.
: Catalogue, The Modernist Document/Le Document Moderniste, edited by Nancy Shaw, published by Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University and The Canada Council for the Arts
: Muchnic, Suzanne, “L.A. Story,” ARTnews, September, 1998, pp. 150-153, ills.
1998: Catalogue, The Edge of Night:Urban Landscape Photography, Hunter College, essay by Susan H. Edwards
: Catalogue, a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, ill.
1997: Gragg, Randy, “A letter from L.A.,” Sunday Oregonian, December 21, pp. 1 & 8.
1996: Catalogue, Sexual Politics, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, edited by Amelia Jones, pp. 35, 225, 261 and 224, ill.
: Curtis, Cathy, “Art Outlook Includes Insights From All Angles”, Orange County Calendar, December 31, F2, ill.
1995: Smith, Cherry, “Eu estava presa em um corpo de sapatao,” Folha de Sao Paulo, July 12
: Catalogue, feminimasculin: Le sexe de l’art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Gallimard/Electra, Paris, ill.
1994: Catalogue, Love In the Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A. , Long Beach Musuem, text and curated by Noriko Gamblin, ill.
: Goldberger, Paul, “The Art of His Choosing,” New York Times Magazine, Sunday, February 26, pp. 30-39, 52, 55, 61-62, ill.
1993: Francine Koslow Miller, “Currents ‘93: Dress Codes,” Artforum, November 1993, p. 110-11
: Catalogue, Back Talk: Women’s Voices in the 90s, Lucy Lippard, Santa Barbara, CA
: Kotz, Liz, “The Body You Want, Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler,” Artforum, November 1992, XXXI, No. 3, p. 83, ill.
1992: Catalogue, Wasteland, Bas Vroege, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991: Hirsch, David, review, New York Native, December 2, Issue 450
: Catalogue, Situation, Richard Meyer, “Exceeding the Frame: recent production by lesbian and gay artists”
1990: Oversight, vol. 2, CalArts, Valencia, CA
: Frank, Peter, “Catherine Opie Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly
1989: Beckman, L., and Sorenson, K., Lucky, Los Angeles, Vol. 2, Spring
: “The Master Plan,” Off Ramp, Santa Monica School of Architecture, Spring
1988: Annual Critics’ Choice, L.A. Weekly, Dec. 9-15, Vol. 11
1984: Inside/Out, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute publication

Catherine Opie

(American, born 1961)

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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