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Iris Nights Lecture Series - Catherine Opie
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Skylight Studios
10050 Constellation Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90067Description
Catherine Opie is a photographer and photography professor at UCLA. Her work includes series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale color works to smaller black-and-white prints. Moving from the territory of the body to the framework of the city, Opie's various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture. Her photos have been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. In 2008, a mid-career survey, “Catherine Opie: American Photographer,” was on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Opie has received numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal (2016), Julius Shulman Institute Award for Photography (2013), Women’s Caucus for Art: President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009), United States Artists Fellowship (2006) and Washington University Freund Fellowship (1999), among others. She is currently working on a monumental installation for the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, which will debut next summer. A major solo exhibition of her work will be held at the Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo, Norway in the fall of 2017. Opie will discuss her life and work.