Lisa Oppenheim

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Lisa Oppenheim
Born1975 (age 49–50)
New York City, USA
Alma materBrown University, Bard College
Known for Multimedia, Video, Photography
Website lisaopp.net

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

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Early life

Lisa Oppenheim was born in New York City in 1975. [1] 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 Bard College. She completed a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2003. [2] She also completed the Rijksakademie van beeldedne kunsten  [ nl ] in Amsterdam in 2006. [3]

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. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6] 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. [7]

Oppenheim has had solo and group exhibitions at international venues including The Approach Gallery, [8] the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, [9] Grazer Kunstverein, [10] the Whitechapel Gallery, [11] and the Museum of Modern Art, [12]

Awards

In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA/AGO Photography prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario. [3] The same year she was awarded the Shpilman International Photography prize from the Israel Museum. [3] [13]

Collections

Her work is included in the public collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, [14] the Guggenheim Museum, New York [15] the Museum of Modern Art, [16] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Oppenheim, Lisa". SFMOMA. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim". MCA Denver. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 exhibit-e.com. "Lisa Oppenheim - Artists - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ "New Photography 2013: Lisa Oppenheim". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ↑ O’Connell, Brian (Summer 2007). "Between Appropriation and Reconstruction". Art & Research. 1 (2). ISSN   1752-6388 . Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Sholis, Brian (May 2013). "Lisa Oppenheim: Elemental Process". Aperture. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Herriman, Kat (12 February 2016). "Weaving Fiber Into Winter Art Shows". observer.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art unveils four distinctive exhibits". CoolCleveland. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  9. ↑ Derieux, Florence; Gruijthuijsen, Krist; Steinbrügge, Bettina, eds. (2014). Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003–2013. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN   9783956790409.
  10. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim Wins 2014 Shpilman Prize". Artnet News. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  12. ↑ "An Effect of Sunlight - Ocean No. 23 (1857/2019)". The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  13. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  14. ↑ "Lisa Oppenheim". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
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