Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie (from Sandusky, OH; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1985), and an MFA from CalArts (1988).

Opie has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe & Japan. In 2008, a mid-career survey of her work was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Solo exhibitions have been organized by the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Institute of Contempo- rary Art, Boston and the Long Beach Museum of Art, California.

Her work is in over 50 major collections worldwide. She received The Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal (2016) and a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). Opie is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick endowed Chair in Art and Art Department Chair at UCLA.