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Catherine Opie (American, 1961)
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Catherine Opie
Blue of Distance (#1-#8) from the Alaska series 2007
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Catherine Opie
Bo from "Being and Having" 1991
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Catherine Opie
Chloe 1993
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Catherine Opie
Edge of Time (#1-#9) from the Alaska series 2007
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Catherine Opie
Football Landscape #1 (Fairfax vs. Marshall, Los Angeles, CA) 2007
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Catherine Opie
Football Landscape #1 (Fairfax vs. Marshall, Los Angeles, CA) 2007
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Biography |
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1961 |
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Born in Sandusky, Ohio |
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1985 |
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BFA San Francisco Art Institute |
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1988 |
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MFA CalArts |
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1997 |
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Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award |
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1999 |
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Washington University Freund Fellowship |
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2000 - 2001 |
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Professor of Fine Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
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2003 |
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CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts |
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2004 |
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Larry Aldrich Award |
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2001 - pres |
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Professor of Fine Art, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Lives and works in Los Angeles, California |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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"Los Angeles," The Annenberg Space for Photography, March 25-July 5, 2009 |
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2009 |
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"Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West," organized by Eva |
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2009 |
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Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 29 – June 8, 2009 |
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2009 |
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"Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports," Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, February 1 – March 29, 2009 |
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2008 |
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"Road Trip," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, September 19, 2008 – January 25, 2009 |
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2008 |
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"Other People: Portraits from the Grunwald and Hammer Collections," curated by Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 26, 2008 – March 22, 2009 |
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2008 |
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"Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography," National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, October 17, 2008 – January 25, 2009 |
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2008 |
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"Catherine Opie The Distant Blue: Photographs from Alaska," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, October 14 – November 14, 2008 |
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2008 |
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"Catherine Opie: American Photographer," Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009 |
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2008 |
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"Catherine Opie," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 10 – May 17, 2008 |
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2008 |
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"Listen Darling…The World is Yours," curated by Lisa Phillips, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal, October |
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2008 |
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"War as a Way of Life," Campbell, Clayton, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, September 27 – December 19, 2008 |
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2008 |
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"Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding," curated by Kevin Killian and Oolter Jacobsen, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, June 27 – August 2, 2008 |
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2008 |
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"Idle Youth," curated byRussell Ferguson, Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 26 – August 15, 2008 |
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2008 |
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"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 |
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2008 |
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"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. |
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2007 |
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“People Take Pictures of Each Other,” LaMontagne Gallery, Boston |
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2007 |
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"Darling, Take Fountain," Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
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2007 |
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"Refugees of Group Selection," Franklin Parrasch, New York |
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2007 |
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"Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
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2007 |
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"Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami |
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2007 |
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"Global Feminisms," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York |
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2007 |
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"All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy," Parrish Art Museum, Southampton |
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2006 |
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"The Last Time They Met," Stephe Friedman Gallery, London |
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2006 |
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“Dark Places,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica |
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2006 |
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"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) |
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2006 |
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“Catherine Opie: 1999 & In and Around Home,” The 2004 Larry Aldrich Award Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (solo) |
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2006 |
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“American Cities,” Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo) |
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2006 |
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“American Cities (Chicago),” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (solo) |
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2006 |
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"Couples Discourse," Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania |
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2006 |
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"Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami |
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2006 |
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"Our Town," Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, NY |
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2006 |
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"Still Points Of The Turning World," SITE, Santa Fe 6th International Biennial |
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2006 |
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"Work Zones," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco |
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2005 |
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“Anniversary Exhibition,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, March 29 – April 23, 2005 |
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2005 |
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“Bidibidobidiboo,” Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2005 |
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2004 |
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“26th Sao Paulo Biennial,” curated by Alfons Hug, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 25 – December 19, 2004 |
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2004 |
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“The Leopard Spots: Between Art, Performance, and Club Culture,” 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, August 7 – October 16, 2004 |
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2004 |
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“Catherine Opie: Surfers,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, January 10 – February 14 (solo) |
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2004 |
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“Catherine Opie: Children,” Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 27 – December 4 (solo) |
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2002 |
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“Catherine Opie: Icehouses,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 11 – June 15 (solo) |
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2002 |
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“Inaugural Exhibition,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8, 2003 |
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2002 |
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“Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, September 21 - December 21 |
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2001 |
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“EXTRAordinary,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, December 2 - February 24, 2002 |
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2001 |
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“fe/male,” Plakat-Intervention U-Bahnstation, Braunschweiggasse, Vienna, Austria, August 1 - 31 |
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2001 |
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“Wall Street,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England, November 30 - January 19, 2002 (solo) |
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2001 |
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“1999,” Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, November 10 - December 20 (solo) |
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2000 |
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“Catherine Opie: In between here and there,” The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October 6 - November 26. (solo) |
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2000 |
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“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) |
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2000 |
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“Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 - 2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000 - February 25, 2001. |
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2000 |
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“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 |
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1999 |
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“Los Angeles,” Philomene Magers Projektes & Maxmilian Verlag, Munich, Germany |
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1999 |
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“The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, September 23, 1999 - February 27, 2000 |
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1999 |
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“Domestic,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1999 |
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“Catherine Opie: A Survey,” Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3 - October 16 (solo) |
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1998 |
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“Love’s Body, Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, November 12, 1998 - January 17, 1999. |
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1998 |
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“Lost Paradise: Catherine Opie, Ellen Cantor, Joachim Koester,” Presenca Gallery, Porto, Portugal, September 26-November 1998 |
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1998 |
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“Mini-Malls,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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1997 |
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“Catherine Opie,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 5 - Feb. 8 (solo) |
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1997 |
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“Houses and Landscapes,” Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1997 |
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“American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity,” Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, October 20-January 18, 1998 |
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1997 |
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“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 |
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1996 |
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“Lie of the Land,” curated by Elizabeth Brown, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, November 26 - February 2, 1997 |
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1996 |
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“Go West: Landscapes,” curated by John Arndt and Barbara Wiesen, Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL, November 20 - December 18 |
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1996 |
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“Houses and Landscapes,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1996 |
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“Houses and Freeways,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, NY (solo) |
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1995 |
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Portraits,” enterprise, New York, NY (solo) |
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1995 |
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“Portraits,” Parco, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1995 |
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“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 |
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1995 |
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“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 |
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1994 |
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“In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
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1994 |
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“Little House on the Prairie,” Marc Jancou Gallery, London |
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1994 |
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“Portraits,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1994 |
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“Portraits,” Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1993 |
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“Invitational 93,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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1993 |
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“Regarding Masculinity,” Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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1992 |
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“Wasteland,” curated by Bas Vroges, Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam III, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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1992 |
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“Breaking Barriers,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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1991 |
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“Situation,” curated by Nayland Blake and Pam Gregg, New Langton Arts, San Francisco |
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1991 |
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“Someone or Somebody,” curated by Simon Watson,Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1991 |
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“Being and Having,” 494 Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1990 |
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“A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Park, Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings,” Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA (solo) |
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1990 |
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“All But the Obvious,” curated by Pam Gregg, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA |
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1989 |
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“New Landscapes,” curated by Williams Hipps, Angel Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA |
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1989 |
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“Master Plan,” United States Post Office, Valencia, CA (solo) |
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1989 |
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“Master Plan,” Mills College, Oakland, CA (solo) |
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1988 |
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“Los Angeles Art Fair,” organized by L.A. Weekly, Criticsí Choice, LA Convention Center |
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1987 |
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Guggenheim Gallery, Orange County, CA |
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1985 |
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Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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Catalogue, Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 2006 |
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2006 |
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Kunitz, Daniel, “The Universal Canvas,” The New York Sun, January 19, 2006. |
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2005 |
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Kunitz, Daniel, “Publisher’s Catalogue,” ArtReview, Nov/Dec 2005, pp.126-131. |
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2005 |
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Catalogue, “Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-06”, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2005 |
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2004 |
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Catalogue, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, curated by Alfons Hug, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 180 –181, ill. |
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2004 |
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Sheets, Hilarie M., “Armand Hammer’s Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los Angeles,” The New York Times, October 6, 2004, pp. B1 & B9 |
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2003 |
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Boriani, Glenda, “Micropolitics,” Tema Celeste, issue 96, March/April, 2003, p. 113, ill. |
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2003 |
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Catalogue, Art and Photography, published by Phaidon, London, England, p. 124 |
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2002 |
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Monograph, Catherine Opie: Skyways + Icehouses, essay by Douglas Fogle, published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, ills. |
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2002 |
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Muchnic, Suzanne, “With all its hang-ups, the L.A. gallery scene thrives,” Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2002 |
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2001 |
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Pinsent, Richard, “Adroitly controlled mise-en-scene at Entwistle,” The Art Newspape, December 2001, p.67, ill. |
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2001 |
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Catalogue, Open City: Street Photographs since 1950, published by Museum of Modern Art Oxford, pp. 18, 168-173, ills. , cover |
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2000 |
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Catalogue, Auto Werke, published by Hatje Cantz, with support by BMW Financial Services North America, essay by Joshua Decter, essay pp. 5-6, ills. |
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2000 |
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“Family Business,” Flash Art, November-December 2000,pp. 48, ill. |
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1999 |
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Gockel, Cornelia, “Kunst aus Kalifornien,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, December 13, 1999, p. 38, ill. |
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1999 |
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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 |
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1998 |
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Catalogue, The Edge of Night:Urban Landscape Photography, Hunter College, essay by Susan H. Edwards |
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1998 |
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Muchnic, Suzanne, “L.A. Story,” ARTnews, September, 1998, pp. 150-153, ills. |
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1997 |
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Gragg, Randy, “A letter from L.A.,” Sunday Oregonian, December 21, pp. 1 & 8. |
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1997 |
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Catalogue, a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, ill. |
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1996 |
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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. |
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1996 |
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Curtis, Cathy, “Art Outlook Includes Insights From All Angles”, Orange County Calendar, December 31, F2, ill. |
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1995 |
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Smith, Cherry, “Eu estava presa em um corpo de sapatao,” Folha de Sao Paulo, July 12 |
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1995 |
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Catalogue, feminimasculin: Le sexe de l’art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Gallimard/Electra, Paris, ill. |
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1994 |
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Catalogue, Love In the Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A. , Long Beach Musuem, text and curated by Noriko Gamblin, ill. |
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1994 |
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Goldberger, Paul, “The Art of His Choosing,” New York Times Magazine, Sunday, February 26, pp. 30-39, 52, 55, 61-62, ill. |
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1993 |
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Francine Koslow Miller, “Currents ‘93: Dress Codes,” Artforum, November 1993, p. 110-11 |
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1993 |
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Catalogue, Back Talk: Women’s Voices in the 90s, Lucy Lippard, Santa Barbara, CA |
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1992 |
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Catalogue, Wasteland, Bas Vroege, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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1992 |
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Kotz, Liz, “The Body You Want, Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler,” Artforum, November 1992, XXXI, No. 3, p. 83, ill. |
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1991 |
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Hirsch, David, review, New York Native, December 2, Issue 450 |
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1991 |
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Catalogue, Situation, Richard Meyer, “Exceeding the Frame: recent production by lesbian and gay artists” |
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1990 |
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Oversight, vol. 2, CalArts, Valencia, CA |
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1990 |
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Frank, Peter, “Catherine Opie Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly |
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1989 |
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Beckman, L., and Sorenson, K., Lucky, Los Angeles, Vol. 2, Spring |
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1989 |
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“The Master Plan,” Off Ramp, Santa Monica School of Architecture, Spring |
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1988 |
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Annual Critics’ Choice, L.A. Weekly, Dec. 9-15, Vol. 11 |
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1984 |
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Inside/Out, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute publication |
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