Catherine Opie, Curators, Catherine Opie Signed Vintage Photograph, 1997

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CATHERINE OPIE (b. 1961, OH), SIGNED Vintage limited edition Photograph Born in Sandusky, OH, Catherine Opie received a BFA from … Read more CATHERINE OPIE (b. 1961, OH), SIGNED Vintage limited edition Photograph Born in Sandusky, OH, Catherine Opie received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Opie's work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan: The Walker Art Center, Minneopolis, MN; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK; Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy; and Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan. She is currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Catherine Opie has become known for her photographic portraits of gay communities and American urban landscapes ranging from large color images of Beverly Hills and Bel Air homes to small jewel-like silver gelatin prints of the Los Angeles freeways. Moving from the territory of the body to the structure of the city and its surrounding landscape, Opie is engaged in what curator and writer, Joshua Decter describes as "cultural portraiture". Her subject matters vary from the Minneapolis/St. Paul vernacular landscape of skyways, to large-format images of ice-fishing houses and portraits of a clan of surfers who await the perfect wave. As such, Opie has become one of the nation's most important photographers today documenting the American scene through regional landscapes and cultural portraiture. Since the prominent debut of her classically composed but often shocking images capturing Los Angeles's gay subculture, Opie has continued to explore the rich terrain of cultural portraiture and the documentary tradition in America. In its compelling clarity and inherent variation, her work reveals a deeply personal commitment to the dignity of her subjects. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2016 'Catherine Opie: Portraits', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (1/30 - 5/22) 'Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road', MoCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA (1/23 - 5/8) 'Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road', Lehmann Maupin, New York NY (1/14 - 2/27) 'Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes', Lehmann Maupin, New York NY (1/14 - 2/27) 2015 'Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim' (group exhibition), Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 'Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes', Wexner Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2013 'Catherine Opie', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2014 'The Gang: Photographs by Catherine Opie', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2012 'The Importance of Being Photographed' (group exhibition), University of South Florida (USF) Contemporary Art Museum Institute for Research in Art (IRA), Tampa, FL 'Catherine Opie: High School Football', Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 'Catherine Opie Photographs Cliff May', Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum, University of California (UC) Santa Barbara, CA 2011 'Catherine Opie', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 'More American Photographs' (group exhibition), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA 'The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment' (group exhibition), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 'Catherine Opie: Empty and Full', Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA 2010 'TRUST: Media City Seoul 2010' (group exhibition), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 'Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape', Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA 'Ars Homo Erotica' (group exhibition), National Museum, Warsaw, Poland 'Catherine Opie: High School Football Players', Sabine Knust Galerie, Munich, Germany 'Catherine Opie', Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy 'Catherine Opie: Twelve Miles to the Horizon', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 'Catherine Opie: Girlfriends', Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 'Hard Targets' (group exhibition), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2009 'The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection' (group exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA 'Le paradis, ou presque (This Side of Paradise): Los Angeles (1865-2008)' (group exhibition), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Musée de la photographie, Chalon-sur-Saone, France 'Pivot Points 3' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, FL 'An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area - Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself' (group exhibition), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 'Creating Identity: Portraits Today' (group exhibition), 21c Museum, Louisville, KY 'Bitch is the New Black' (group exhibition), Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 'The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women' (group exhibition), Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'L8S ANG3LES' (group exhibition), The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA 'Le paradis, ou presque (This Side of Paradise): Los Angeles (1865-2008)' (group exhibition), Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2008 'Catherine Opie: The Blue of Distance', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 'Catherine Opie: American Photographer', Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 'Catherine Opie: Highschool Football', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 'Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2007 'All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy' (group exhibition), The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY 'Global Feminisms' (group exhibition), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY 'Catherine Opie: In and Around Home', Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 'Family Pictures' (group exhibition), Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 2006 'Catherine Opie: In and Around Home', Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Cleveland, OH 'Catherine Opie: American Cities', Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 'Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial' (group exhibition), SITE Santa Fe, NM 'Catherine Opie: In and Around Home', Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 'Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities)', Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL 'Catherine Opie: In and Around Home ', Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 'Skin is a Language' (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2005 'Getting Emotional' (group exhibition), Intitute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA 2004 'Catherine Opie: Surfers', Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY 'Catherine Opie: Surfers', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 'Catherine Opie: Surfers', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA See less