Catherine Opie
700 Nimes Road
2012
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
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Artist
Catherine Opie
b. 1961, Sandusky, Ohio · American · Based in Los Angeles, California
- MFA, California Institute of the Arts (1988)
- BFA, San Francisco Art Institute (1985)
- Photography
Catherine Opie documents American subcultures, queer leather communities, domestic family portraits, and vast urban infrastructures through large-format color photography. Her practice interrogates documentary conventions, national mythologies, and community belonging.
Photography
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Catherine Opie in "Change" - Season 6 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Art2118 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Virtual Studio Visits: Klaus Biesenbach in Conversation with Catherine Opie
The Museum of Contemporary Art53 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Photographer Catherine Opie Takes a Field Trip To Norway | Louisiana Channel
Louisiana Channel14 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1993Self-Portrait/Cutting
- 1994Self-Portrait/Pervert
- 1991Being and Having
- 1993–97Portraits
- 1995–98Domestic
- 1994–95Freeways
- 1997–98Mini-Malls
- 2007–09High School Football
- 2010–11700 Nimes Road →
- 2017The Modernist
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
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