Catherine Opie
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.
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B. 1961 in Sandusky OH. Lives and works in Los Angeles CA
Education
1988 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
1985 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Catherine Opie: Binding Ties, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia
2022 To What We Think We Remember, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2022 Catherine Opie, The Current, Stowe VT
2020 Rhetorical Landscapes, Lehmann Maupin, New York NY
2020 Catherine Opie: The Modernist, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
2020 Rhetorical Landscapes, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2019 Catherine Opie: The Outside-Inside, Installation for MOCACleveland, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland OH
2018 Domestic, Houses & Landscapes: Selections from the wok of Catherine Opie, North Gallery, Princeton NJ
2018 The Human Landscape, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
2018 The Moderninst, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2017 Keeping an Eye on the World, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
Portraits and Landscapes, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2017 700 Nimes Road, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale FL
2016 Catherine Opie: O, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2016 Catherine Opie: Portraits, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
2016 700 Nimes Road and Portraits and Landscapes, Lehmann Maupin, New York NY
2016 700 Nimes Road, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA [travelled to: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI; George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale
2015 Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH
2014 The Gang: Photographs by Catherine Opie, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
2014 Only Miss the Sun when it Starts to Snow, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
2013 In and Around LA, Julius Shulman Institute, Los Angeles CA
2013 Catherine Opie, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2012 Twelve Miles to the Horizon: Sunrises and Sunsets, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA
2012 BROADWAY BILLBOARD: Catherine Opie, Untitled (Stump Fire #4), Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY
2012 Catherine Opie: High School Football, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York NY
2011 Catherine Opie, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2011 Catherine Opie: New Zealand; Zero to Something, projectspace B431, Elam School of Fine Arts, New Zealand
2011 Catherine Opie: Empty and Full, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
2011 Catherine Opie: Football Landscapes, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
2010 Catherine Opie, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
2010 Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2010 Catherine Opie: High School Football Players, Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
2010 Venezia/ Venice, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2010 Catherine Opie: Twelve Miles to the Horizon, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles CA
2010 Catherine Opie: Girlfriends, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
2008 Catherine Opie The Blue of Distance: Photographs from Alaska, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2008 Catherine Opie: American Photographer, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
2008 Catherine Opie, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2006 1999 & In and Around Home, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC
2006 1999 & In and Around Home, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
2006 1999 & In and Around Home, The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County CA
2006 1999 & In and Around Home, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT
2006 Catherine Opie: Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
2006 Catherine Opie: American Cities, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
2004 Catherine Opie: Children, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2004 Catherine Opie: Surfers, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York NY
2004 Catherine Opie: Surfers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2004 Catherine Opie: Surfers, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2002 Catherine Opie: Icehouses, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2002 Catherine Opie: Icehouses, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2002 Catherine Opie: Skyways and Icehouses, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
2001 Wall Street, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2001 1999, Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal
2001 Wall Street 2000-2001, presented by Antik in cooperation with Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York NY
2000 Catherine Opie: In between here and there, curated by Rochelle Steiner, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO
2000 Altered States of America: Catherine Opie, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England [travelled to: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL]
2000 Catherine Opie: Large Format Polaroids, Thread Waxing Space, New York NY
2000 New Polaroids, Thread Waxing Space, New York NY
2000 Catherine Opie, Artpace, San Antonio TX
2000 Works 1991-1997, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro NC
2000 Domestic, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York NY
2000 Catherine Opie, Susan Inglett, New York NY
1999 Catherine Opie: A Survey, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh PA
Domestic, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
1998 Mini-Malls, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York NY
1997 LA Freeways and Mini-Malls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
1997 Houses and Landscapes, Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Portraits and Houses, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham MI
1996 L.A. Houses and Landscapes, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
1996 Houses and L.A. Freeways, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York NY
1996 L.A. Freeways, Feigen Gallery, Chicago IL
1995 Portraits, enterprise, New York NY
1995 Portraits, Parco, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Portraits, Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
1995 Portraits and Freeways, Richard Foncke Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
1994 Portraits, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
1994 Portraits, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco CA
1994 L.A. Freeways, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA
1991 Being and Having, 494 Gallery, New York NY
1990 A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Park, Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
1989 Master Plan, United States Post Office, Valencia CA
1989 Master Plan, Mills College, Oakland CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, England
2023 Ansel Adams in Our Time, de Young Museum, San Francisco CA
2023 Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, New York NY
2023 Queer Ethos, University of Auckland Art Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
2023 Picturing Fame: Hooray for Hollywood, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale FL
2023 When I Am Empty Please Dispose of Me Properly, Bric, New York NY
2023 Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie, International Center of Photography, New York NY
2023 CURRENTS, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach FL
2022 Queer Icons, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2022 Warhol, Opie, Sherman, Klein, Polke, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
2022 What's Going On, Rubell Museum, Washington D.C.
2022 13 Women, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa CA
2022 Grief and Pleasure, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
2022 Io, lei, l'altra. Ritratti e autoritratti fotografici di artiste, Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste, Italy
2021 Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2021 Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade, The Broad, Los Angeles CA
2021 Mother and Child, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco CA
2021 In Focus: Protest, Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA
2021 Picturing Motherhood Now, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH
2021 No Face, No Case: Portraiture’s Breaking, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland OR
2021 Queer/Dialogue, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell IA
2021 Any distance between us, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence RI
2021 Los Angeles (State of Mind), Palazzo Zevallos, Naples, Italy
2021 Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2021 New Iconography: Artists Raising Children, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2021 It’s Better to Be Mediocre, curated by LG Williams (online)
2020 i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
2020 Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach FL
2020 House to House: Women, Politics, and Place, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami FL
2020 Monoculture: A Recent History, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 In Focus: Election Eve, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA
2020 Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs NY
2020 La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès- Rouen, France
2020 Photography’s Last Century: The Collection of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
2020 Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
2020 Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces NM
2020 Masculinities. Liberation through Photography, Barbican Centre, London, England [travelled to: Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium]
2020 50 + 50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA
2020 The Cindy Sherman Effect, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
2019 Water After All, MCA Chicago, Chicago IL
2019 Ace: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University Art Museum, Albany NY
2019 Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Guggenheim, New York NY
2019 Art After Stonewall, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York NY
2019 Tattoo: Storie Sulla Pelle, M9 Museum, Mestre, Venice
2019 Kiss My Genders, The Hayward Gallery, London, England
2019 Queer as I, Here Gallery, New York NY
2019 Highlights from the Sweet Briar Collection, Pannell Gallery, Sweet Briar VA
2018 One Day at a Time: Manny Farmer and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
2018 Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, England; travelling to: Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
2018 Opie, Sherman, Struth…Photography from the Louisiana Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2018 American Landscape, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
2018 New Acquisitions, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur GA
2018 Shape of Time, Kunsthorisch Museum, Vienna, Austria
2018 The Intersectional Self, The 8th Floor, New York NY
2018 Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2018 Monuments to Us, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
2018 Dress Matters, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon AZ
2018 Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined, Art Projects International, New York NY
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara CA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
The Broad, Los Angeles CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Collezione Patrizia e Augustino Re Rebaudengo Sandretto, Turin, Italy
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH
De Pont Museum Tilburg, Netherlands
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA
Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Hall Art Foundation, Reading VT
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York NY
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis MO
Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami FL
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
National Portrait Gallery, London, England
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale FL
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami FL
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Rubell Museum, Miami FL
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis MO
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln NE
Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China
South London Gallery, London, England
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY
Tate, London, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT