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

Education

Lisa Oppenheim was born in New York City in the year of 1975. She earned her Bachelor's degree from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1998, concentrating in Modern Culture and Media, Art and

Semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...

. In 2001, she earned her MFA in Film and Video from

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a graduate program associated with Bard College that grants Master of Fine Arts degrees. Founded in 1981, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (otherwise known as the Bard MFA program) is a nontraditi ...

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

. She completed a

Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude ...

Independent Study Program in 2003. She also completed the
Rijksakademie van beeldedne kunsten
' in Amsterdam from 2004-2006.

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. 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. 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. She has done works in

fiber arts Fiber art (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as ...

which is art created using strings, ropes and fabric. Her works in fiber arts were displayed in her Gramma exhibition at

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is an art gallery founded by Tanya Bonakdar, located in both Chelsea in New York City and Los Angeles. Since its inception in 1994, the gallery has exhibited new work by contemporary artists in all media, including painting ...

. Oppenheim has had the honor of many solo and group exhibitions at international venues including the Guggenheim Museum,

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

and the

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...

in New York City, the

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in France,

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spai ...

in Spain, the

Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska The Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska is an art museum in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The museum has rebranded itself in recent years as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska. See also * List of mus ...

in Bosnia, and the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

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); ''Vapours and Veils,'' Klosterfelde, Berlin (2012); ''Intervention: Lisa Oppenheim,''

21er Haus Belvedere 21, formerly 21er Haus or Einundzwanziger Haus ( en, House 21), is a modernist style steel and glass building designed by Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975). Originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion or temporary show ...

, The Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2012); ''Forever is Composed of Nows,''

Kunstverein in Hamburg Kunstverein may refer to: Germany * , an art association, founded in 1986 in Aachen * Kunstverein Arnsberg, an association for contemporary art in Arnsberg * , an art association in Karlsruhe * , an art society which operates the Kunsthalle Bremen ...

, Germany (2014); ''From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004–2014)'' at Grazer Kunstverein (2014) Graz, Austria.; ''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 Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States. Early life ...

, textiles based on Pre-Columbian textiles in the collection of the

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

, and landscape portraits. A more recent exhibitions was ''The American Colony,'' The Approach, London (2019).

Awards

- In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA/AGO Photography prize from the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; french: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Beve ...

. - Shpilman International Photography prize from the

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

. Collections Her work is included in the public collections of: * FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France * FRAC Piemonte, France * Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany * Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel *

Shpilman Institute of Photography The Shpilman Institute for Photography (SIP) was an Israeli non profit organisation which promoted photography worldwide. History SIP was founded in 2010 Shalom Shpilman in order to promote photography as an art in Israel and worldwide. The insti ...

, Tel Aviv, Israel *

Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...

, New York, USA * MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA *

, New York, USA * Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

References

External links

Lisa Oppenheim's website

Biography on Artsy

Artist talk at Aperture Gallery, 2013 (20 minutes)
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