Catherine Opie

Bio

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio and received her MFA from CalArts in 1988. Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including a mid-career survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008. Opie was a recipient of The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal in 2016, The Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography award in 2013 and a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. A large survey of Opie’s work recently opened at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway in 2017, with an accompanying catalog. Upcoming solo exhibitions open in 2018 Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong and New York. Opie lives and works in Los Angeles and is a Professor of Photography at UCLA.

Editor’s note: This interview is part of a series on day jobs.