Catherine Opie: Walls, Windows and Blood

Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, Ohio) received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985, and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 1988. In 2000, she was appointed Professor of Fine Art at Yale University, and in 2001 she became Professor of Photography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Opie's photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale colour works to smaller black and white prints. Moving from the territory of the body to the geography of the city, Opie's various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture.

Her work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. In 2017, a survey exhibition entitled Catherine Opie: Keeping an Eye on the World was on view at the Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo, Norway. Solo exhibitions have been organised by MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (2016); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2015); Long Beach Museum of Art (2012); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008). Her work is included in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; The Royal Academy of Art, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, among others. Catherine Opie lives and works in Los Angeles.