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Julian Opie Biography
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1978 - 1979 |
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Attended Chelsea School of Art, London, England
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1979 - 1982 |
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Attended Goldsmith’s College of Art, London, England
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1983 |
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First one-person show at the Lisson Gallery, London
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1985 |
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Exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
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1993 |
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Major retrospective of his work at the Hayward Gallery, London
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1994 |
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Wormwood Scrubs, Perimeter Wall Paintings, Commissioned by HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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1995 |
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Awarded the Sargent Fellowship at The British School in Rome
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1995 - 1996 |
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Residency at the Atelier Calder in Sache, France
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1997 |
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Imagine you are moving. Commissioned and Funded by BAA Plc as part of the BAA Ar Programme in association with the Public Art Development Trust
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2001 |
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Music Week CADS, Best Illustration for Best of Blur
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Lives and works in London, England
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2012 - 2013
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Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Looking at the View - Tate Britain, London (England)
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2012
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Sakshi Gallery, Dehli, India (solo)
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The Gallery Collection, Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
"Der Blick, das Wort, die Geste" ("The look, the word, the gesture" - works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Collection), RLB Kunstbrücke Innsbruck, Austria
"Schau mir in die Aug...", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
"Spotlights Video Art", Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
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2011
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Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London, UK
CAMERA VIVANT, AD Projects at Central Utah Arts Center, Ephraim, UT
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill an Sea, UK
Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Krobath, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England (exh cat) (solo)
Watch Me Move: The Animation Show, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Rugby Collection 2011, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, UK
Observadores, Museu Colleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Fast Forward: British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros, Brazil
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, UK
Was ist schön?, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
21st Century: Art in the first Decade, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
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2010
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Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
IVAM, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England
The Rhythm of Istanbul, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
Sea Fever: From Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southamptom, UK
Pictures about Pictures, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
From Here to There: Contemporary Work from the Arts Council Collection, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
Realism – The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
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2009
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Boule to Braid, curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Citygarden, Saint Louis, MO
Wham – Painting and Beyond, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lisson presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Dancing in Kivik, Kivik Art Centre, Osterlen, Sweden (solo)
Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India (solo)
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
Transparency, National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic (group)
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2008
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Lisson Gallery, London, England (solo)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England (solo)
Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Art Tower Mito, Japan (solo)
The prospect 27, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK (group)
Still / Motion", Mie Prefecture Museum, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan (group)
Recent works, MAK Vienna, Austria
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2007
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Passion for Art, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
Group Show II, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Walk on the Vltava, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
This is Shahnoza, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (solo)
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA(solo)
Julian Opie in the 90‘s, King‘s Lynn art centre, Norfolk, UK (solo)
SIGNS, outdoor exhibition organized by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (solo)
Show Time, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
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2006
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Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Auto Nom Kasel, Germany
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, touring: California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; ICA Boston, MA; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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2005
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Gallery Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (solo)
La Chocolateria, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
ICA, Boston, MA (solo)
Gallery MGM, Oslo, Norway (solo)
Gallery Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2004
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Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
The Tower Block, vertical architecture, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London, UK
Porträt ohne Antlitz, (Face without features) Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany (exh. cat.)
Funny Cuts; cartoons and comics in contemporary art, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
People, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy
Summer Exhibiton, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Animals, buildings, cars and people, curated by Tom Eccles, Public Art Fund, City hall Park, New York City, USA (solo)
Sara, Bryan & Monique, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Kunsthandlung H. Krobath & B. Wimmer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
MCA Chicago, IL (solo)
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2003
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Saved, 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)
Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Arcadia; the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
Addiction, curated by Christopher Kul-Want, 15 Micamber Street, London, UK
Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
No Art-No City - City Utopias in Contemporary Art. Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany (exh. cat.)
Auto-nom, das Automobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.)
Urban Codes - Coder/De' coder, espace de l'art concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France (exh. cat.)
Trickfilm, André Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Robert Mc Lain Gallery, Houston, TX
MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (exh. cat.)
Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
K21 Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Neues Museum Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (solo)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2002
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Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
Mario Sequeira Gallery, Porto, Portugal (solo)
Berlin Classics, an installation in the courtyard of the gallery in collaboration with Caroline Raspé, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
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2001
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Lisson Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat./ solo)
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1983
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Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1982
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Sculpture for a Garden, (Hounslow Sculpture II), Gunnersbury Park, London, UK
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2006
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Julian Opie - Showtime, CAC Malaga, Spain (cat.)
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2006
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Vicente Jarque: Julian Opie, o el arte de la ambigüedad, Arte y Parte, no. 47, December 2006/January 2007
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2004
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Philipp Holstein: Julian Opie, der Vorsteher von Oz, Rheinische Post, 25. November 2004
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2004
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Ingeborg Ruthe: Piktogramm statt Weibsbild, Berliner Zeitung, 01. Dezember 2004
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2004
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Uta Grundmann, Nach dem Trubel - Berliner Galerien im Herbst, Berliner Zeitung, 01. Dezember 2004
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2004
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Tom Horan, The Olympics of the art world, The Telegraph, June 2004
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2004
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Michael Glover, Colourful, simple and noisy, The Independent, March 2004
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2004
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Our selection, The Art Newspaper, March 2004
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2004
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Settlements text by Laurent Heygi, Saint Etienne, France (cat.)
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2004
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Saved; 100 years of the national art collections fund, Hayward Gallery/Art Fund
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2004
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Julian Opie, Landscapes Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (cat.)
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2004
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Julian Opie - Bijou, Sara, Bryan and Monique Lisson Gallery (cat.)
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2004
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Julian Opie (J.O), text by Mary Horlock, Tate Gallery publication
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2003
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Julian Opie Neues Museum Nurnberg, Germany (cat.)
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2003
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Urban Codes coder/decoder Espace de l’art concrete, Mouans-Sartoux, France (cat.)
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2003
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Bijou gets undressed text by Julian Heynen, K21 Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.)
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2003
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Auto-Nom NRW forum, Dusseldorf, Germany published by Hatje Cantz
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2003
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Julian Opie/Alan Cristea ‘newspaper’ Alan Cristea Gallery, London (cat.)
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2003
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Rose Aidin, Brush with fame, Observer October 2003
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2003
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Maev Kennedy, Saved, The Guardian, October 2003
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2003
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Hannah Jones, The art of changing faces, Western Mail, April 2003
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2002
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William Jackson, “Art 33 Basel”, Galleries, August 2002
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2002
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Paul Usherwood, “B. Opened”, Art Monthly, No. 259, September 2002, p. 1-4
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2002
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From Archipov to Zittel, selected Ikon Off-site projects 2000 – 2001, texts by Deborah Kenmode and Jonathan Watkins
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2002
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Sculptura 02 International Art in Public Spaces, Falkenbreg, Sweden (cat.)
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2002
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Continuity/Departure, Tokyo Museum of Art, curator Kazuo Nakabayashi (cat.)
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2001
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Multiplication, a British Council touring exhibition of artist’s multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest. (cat.)
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2001
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Julian Opie, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (book of stamps)
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2001
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Sarah Kent, Time Out, 28 February 01
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2001
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Cat Callender, Holidays of the rich and famous, The Observer Magazine, 5 August, p. 35
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2000
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Andrew Graham Dixon, The Art of Success, Vogue, pp.179-92, London, May 2000
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2000
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Julian Opie, Abbaye Saint-André, centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France (cat.)
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1999
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Breaking the Mould, British Art of the 1980s and 1990s, The Weltkunst Collection, London (cat.)
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1990
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Face Value, The Standard, London, 20 July
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1990
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John Russell Taylor. Taking a narrow view, The Times, 26 March
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