Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie
Born1961 (age 64–65)
Sandusky, Ohio, US
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts
Known forPortrait, landscape, and studio photography
Notable workBeing and Having (1991), Portraits (1993—1997), Domestic (1999)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Websitewww.regenprojects.com/artists/catherine-opie

Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Opie studies the connections between mainstream and infrequent society. By specializing in portraiture, studio, and landscape photography, she is able to create pieces relating to sexual identity. Through photography, Opie documents the relationship between the individual and the space inhabited.

She is known for her portraits exploring the Los Angeles leather-dyke community. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and she has won awards including the United States Artists Fellowship (2006) and the President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Women’s Caucus for Art (2009).

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