Lisa Oppenheim

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Lisa Oppenheim
Born1975 (age 45–46)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Education Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College
Alma mater Brown University
Known for Multimedia, Video, Photography

Lisa Oppenheim (born 1975) is an American multimedia artist.

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Education

Lisa Oppenheim was born in New York City in the year of 1975. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1998, concentrating in Modern Culture and Media, Art and Semiotics. In 2001, she earned her MFA in Film and Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. She completed a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2003. [1] She also completed the Rijksakademie van beeldedne kunsten in Amsterdam from 2004-2006. [2]

Work

Oppenheim's work plays with the process of creating photographs and film. Her pieces often question the documentary genre as well as the concept of an archives. [3] In utilizing archival sources, she interrogates and reappropriates the archival function of narrative-making and -omitting, and how narrative and imagery are intertwined but ultimately separate. [4]

In work such as Lunagrams, 2010, in which she exposed archival glass negatives using moonlight, Oppenheim experiments with time as a force of art and imagery. [5] She has done works in fiber arts which is art created using strings, ropes and fabric. Her works in fiber arts were displayed in her Gramma exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. [6]

Oppenheim has had the honor of many solo and group exhibitions at international venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York City, the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska in Bosnia, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Exhibitions

Oppenheim's solo exhibitions include Open Source, University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography (2009); Blood to Ghosts, Klosterfelde, Berlin (2010); [7] Vapours and Veils, Klosterfelde, Berlin (2012); [8] Intervention: Lisa Oppenheim, 21er Haus, The Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2012); Forever is Composed of Nows, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (2014); From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004–2014) at Grazer Kunstverein (2014) Graz, Austria.; [9] Spine, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (2017). Curated by Andria Hickey, the exhibition, explored the human spine in nature, in the body, and in labor. It featured repurposed photographs by Lewis Hine, textiles based on Pre-Columbian textiles in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and landscape portraits. [10] [11] A more recent exhibitions was The American Colony, The Approach, London (2019). [12] [13]

Awards

- In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA/AGO Photography prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario. [2]

- Shpilman International Photography prize from the Israel Museum. [2]

Collections

Her work is included in the public collections of:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lisa Oppenheim Biography". The Approach. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 exhibit-e.com. "Lisa Oppenheim - Artists - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. ↑ "New Photography 2013: Lisa Oppenheim". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  4. ↑ O’Connell, Brian (Summer 2007). "Between Appropriation and Reconstruction". Art & Research. 1 (2). ISSN   1752-6388 . Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Sholis, Brian (May 2013). "Lisa Oppenheim: Elemental Process". Aperture. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Herriman, Kat (12 February 2016). "Weaving Fiber Into Winter Art Shows". observer.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim at Klosterfelde". Contemporary Art Daily. 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  8. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim at Klosterfelde, Berlin". Contemporary Art Daily. 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  9. ↑ Derieux, Florence; Gruijthuijsen, Krist; Steinbrügge, Bettina, eds. (2014). Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003–2013. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN   9783956790409.
  10. ↑ Spine: Lisa Oppenheim. Cleveland: MOCA Cleveland Press. 2014.
  11. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim:Spine". MOCA Cleveland. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim". Lisa Oppenheim. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim Exhibitions". The Approach. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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