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Lisa Oppenheim

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Born 1975, New York, USA

Lives and works in New York, USA

Education

2003
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Studio Program

2001
MFA Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, Department of Film/Video

1998
BA, cum lade, Brown University, Department of Modern Cultutre and Media, Art and Semiotics concentration

Solo Exhibitions

2020
The Eternal Substitute, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2019
The American Colony, The Approach, London, UK

2017-18
Spine, MOCA Cleveland, Ohio, USA; MCA Denver, Colorado, USA

2017
A Durable Web, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Sublime Smoke, Lisa Oppenheim & John Stezaker, The Annexe, London, UK

2016
Analytic Machine, The Approach, London, UK
Gramma, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

2015
Landscapes, Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
hereditary language, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

2014
La Quema, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Forever is Composed of Nows, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Project Space: Nature’s Pencil, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004–2014), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

2013
Point de Gaze, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heavens Blazing into The Head, The Approach, London, UK
Everyone’s Camera, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany

2012
Equivalents, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
Vapours and Veils, Galerie Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Intervention: Lisa Oppenheim, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, 21er Haus, Vienna

2011
Art Statements, Art Basel 42, Lisa Oppenheim with Galerie Juliette Jogma

2010
Blood to Ghosts, Martin Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Blood to Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jogma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2009
Lisa Oppenheim; Open Source, Univeristy of California, Riverside/California Museum of Photography
Invention without a Future, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA

2008
The Making of Americans, STORE, London, UK

2007
By Faith and Industry, Galerie Juliette Jogma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lisa Oppenheim, Annex 14, Bern, Switzerland

2006
Story, Story, Print, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2005
Split Screen, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Parallax View, Galerie Juliette Jogma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Damaged, De Nederelandsche Bank Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Group Exhibitions

2022
Shifting Perspectives: Landscape Photographs from the Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2021-2022
Fire, Prix Pictet touring tour, V&A, London, UK; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland

2021
Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud, curated by Dr. Katherin Schönegg, C/O Berlin Foundation, Germany

2020
La Photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, L’Onde Théâtre – Centre d’art, in collaboration with Le Frac Normandie Rouen and Le Centre Photographique d’île-de-France.
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles,
Selections from Hiscox Art Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Return of the Real, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Real Time, curated by Damien Roach, Seventeen Gallery, London
Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL

2019
Living in a Lightbulb, curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles & New York
The Moon, Grand Palais, Paris
City Priince/sses – Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City and Tehran, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Maan / Moon, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium

2018
Back to the Future: The 19th Century in the 21st Century, C|O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Are We In Sync?, curated by John Elammar, Jesse Firestone, Xinyi Ren, Maria Saenz, Michele Thursz, and Andrea Valencia, SVA Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
Killed Negatives: Introducing America to Americans, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Le Paradoxe de l’iceberg, Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
Nothing Stable Under Heaven, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, curated by Michael Darling, MCA Chicago, USA

2017
20 Years, The Approach, London, UK
The Still Point of the Turning World. Between Photography and Film, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
Salon hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016-17
Re/Turning Out: Works from the FRAC Collection, curated by Daria Carmi, Castello del Monferrato, Casale Monferrato, Italy

2016
8868, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Project 88, Mumbai
Broadway Billboard: Lisa Oppenheim
, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
LA CAMERA: On the Materiality of Photography
, curated by Simone Menegoi, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna
The Sun Placed in the Abyss
, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA
The Green Ray, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
NOW/HERE, FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna, Austria
Happy Ending, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
The Camera’s Blind Spot III, Banca di Bologna, Italy
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy, The Franes Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York, USA
The Language of Things: Material Hi/Stories from the Collection, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

2015
Photo Poetics: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Photo Poetics: An Anthology, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
Eppur si muove (And yet it turns), MUDAM, Luxembourg
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles, KM– Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Billboard for Edinburgh: Lisa Oppenheim, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Editor’s Choice, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editions, Berlin, Germany
Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The day will come when photography revises, part of the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2014
American Photography: Recent Acquisitions from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paris Photo 2014, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Americans in New York 3, Matthew Buckingham, Lisa Oppenheim, Hank Willis Thomas, Michel Rein, Paris, France
New in the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize 2014, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
CLEAR, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA
Black Sun: Alchemy, Diaspora and Heterotopia, curated by Shezad Dawood and Tom Trevor, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Constellations, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India

2013
New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
ICP Triennial 2013, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA
Every Serious Man in Dealing with Really Serious Subjects Carefully Avoids Writing, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Specific Collisions, curated by Melissa Gordon, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Jew York, UNTITLED, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Pyroerotomachy, curated by Krzysztof Gutfransk, Galeria Arsenal, Ponzan, Poland
Thirty Year Anniversary Group Exhibition of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, curated by Florence Derieux, Reims
The Story Behind, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
L’apparition des images, curated by Audrey Illouz, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris

2012
Lisa Oppenheim/Agnieszka Polska, Belevedere, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
A revolução tem que ser feita pouco a pouco – Parte 2: As duas metades, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Galerie Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Group Show, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Bishoff Weiss, London, UK
Cantastoria, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
Esta Puerta Pide Clavo, curated by Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
Riot, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
On Geometry and Speculation, Parallel Project of Marrakech Biennale, Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
Behind The Light, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Artists’ Film Club: Lisa Oppenheim – Double, ICA, London, UK
Recto/Verso, The Approach, London, UK
Found In Translation, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Artists Group Show, Harris Lieberman, New York
A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Thom O’Nions, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon
Kadis: Pathways into a Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2011
The Ginger Island Project, curated by Liutarus Psibiliskis for Perform 11, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA
Flags for Venice, curated by Gianni Jetzer and the Swiss Institute, Venice, Italy
Found In Translation, curated by Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum, New York
New Existentialisms, curated by Alexandra Blattler, Gebert Stiftung fur Kultur, Rapperwil, Switzerland
Specific Collisions, Cosar HMT, Duesseldorf, Germany
Wild Sky, curated by Michael Conner, Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany

2010
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
On Gaps and Silent Documents, curated by Pieter-Paul Mortier, Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
And So On, And So On, And So On, Harris Lieberman, New Yourk, USA
Image Transfer, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Time’s Arrow, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Ever Prosperity, Bugda and Cargnel, Paris
Free, curated by Lauren Cornell, The New Museum, New York, USA

2009
Fabienne Leclerc/In Situ Gallery, curated by Clément Dirie, Paris, France
Reduced Visability, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
The columns held us up, collaboration with Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, curated by Vasif Kortun and November Paynter, ARTISTS SPACE, New York, USA
National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
PRUNE, guest-curated by Kathy Ryan, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Solaris, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
Don’t Expect Anything, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
The Third Place, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Turning Points, Outpost, Norwich, UK
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France
Shake It: An Insult History of the Polaroid, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

2008
The Museum of Modern Art of Rupublica Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia
Sudden White (after London), GSK Contemporary at the Academy of Arts, London, UK
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Quiet Politics, Zwiner & Wirth, New York, USA
The Why of Life, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Neutre Intense, Centre d’Arte Mira Phalania, Maison Popularie, Montreuil, France
Other Certanties, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, USA
The Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley Fine Arts, New York, USA
Present Futures, Artissima Torino, Italy with Harris Lieberman
Self-Storage, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Tell me everything you saw and what you think it means, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sudden White, Royal Academy, London, UK
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach with Harris Lieberman

2007
Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach with STORE
Presque Rien 1, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Several Seconds of Badly Developed Film, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
How Soon Is Now?, Luis Seoane Foundation, Coruna, Spain
Extra-Room, Arti & Amiticae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Illy Prize, Art Rotterdam

2006
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Trifecta, Bellweather Gallery, New York, USA
For Hollis, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Re:Visie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Brave New World, Lizbeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles
The Golden Hour, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellweather Gallery, New York, USA
Story Study Print, salon orgainized by Lisa Cooley
The Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Lisa Oppenheim/Alexandra Leykauf, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van bedeelnde kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cinematexas, Austin, USA
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany

2004
Botany, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, California, USA
Documentary Evidence, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van bedeelnde kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003
Good Words and Credentials, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New Yourk, USA
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York, USA
Hard Times, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Open Studios, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA
Drive Into the Sunset, Western Front Society Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002
Tonight, Schnittraum Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art in General’s 4th Annual Video Marathon, Art in General, New York, USA

Selected Screenings

2016
The Other Cinema Collective, Quezon, The Philippines. 16 October.
The Other Cinema Collective
, Taichung, Taiwan, 13 October.
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 27th January – 7th February

2015
My First 3D – PART II, organized by Ben Coonley, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, Autumn

2013
Smoke, Parcours at Art Basel, Switzerland, 12th-16th June

2012
Artists’ Film Club: Lisa Oppenheim – Double, ICA, London, 9th February

2011
The Indiscipline of Painting Screening, Tate St. Ives, 28th October
What makes Free Will (with Melissa Gordon), Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam, 25th November

2009
Lost and Found, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 9th September
Tank.tv at Tate Modern, London, 11th December
Lisa Oppenheim, Tank.tv, July

Selected Bibliography

2019
“Lisa Oppenheim’s American Colony opens at the Approach.” London Live (online), 3 April

2018
Hemmings, Jessica. “Lisa Oppenheim: Spine.” Surface Deign Journal (print), Fall 2018
Mckie, Karin. “Disruptive Photos at the MCA in Picture Fiction.” Third Coast Review (online), 30 July
Anderson, Cori. “Four artists take over the MCA with TV, discussions of race and gallons of honey.” 303 Magazine (online), 11 June
Olson, Carlotta. “Colorado Springs-area events calendar: Sunday, June 3.” The Gazette (online), 2 June
Warner, Marigold. “Photo London: Killed Negatives at the Whitechapel Gallery.” British Journal of Photography (online), 16 May

2017
Knoblauch, Loring. “Lisa Oppenheim: A Durable Web at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.” Collector Daily (online), 13 October
“Lisa Oppenheim.” Wall Street international (online), 30 September
“Lisa Oppenheim at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.” Blouin Art Info (online), 25 September
Gat, Orit. “Lisa Oppenheim Unravels Hunting Images of Teenage Textile Workers.” Vice (online), 15 September
Schultz, Charles. “Lisa Oppenheim with Charles Schultz.” The Brooklyn Rail (online), 7 September
Butz, Michael. “MOCA exhibitions mine past to comment on present-day problems.” Jewish News (online), 10 February
O’Brien Erin. “‘Becoming Inperceptible’ comes to MOCA in a post election world.” Fresh Water (online), 1 February
Usmani, Josh. “MOCA Goes Big With Major Shows to Anchor These Cold Months in Cleveland.” Scene (online), 25 January

2016
Droitcour, Brian. “The Lookout: Lisa Oppenheim.” Art in America (online), January 2016
“Goings On About Town: Lisa Oppenheim.” The New Yorker, 1 February
Herriman, Kat. “Weaving Fiber into Winter Art Shows.” New York Observer (online), 12 February
Seebacher, Angelika. “It’s Now and Here and Nowhere Else – From The Significance Of The Moment.” Parnass Kunstmagazin, February
“New Additions To Art Of The Moment.” Kurier, 8 February
“Drugs The Shimmer Like Semiprecious Stones.” Falter, 10 February
Dafoe, Taylor. “Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.” The Brooklyn Rail, 4 March
Sharp, Chris “Infra paysages.” L’Officiel Art, November 2016.
Greenberger, Alex. “Winter Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World.” Artnews, 22 November 2016.
Winant, Carmen. “Artforum Critic’s Pick: The Sun Placed in the Abyss.” Artforum (online), November 23, 2016.

2015
Ollman, Leah. “Review: ‘Light, Paper, Process’ an inventive subversion of photography.” LA Times, 3 May
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “KCRW Art Talk: Getty’s Experimental Photographs and Paris Photo.” KCRW, 30 April
Schoener, Allon. “The Public Eye: Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at the Getty.” Cultural Weekly, 30 April
Schneider, Iris. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography’ at the Getty.” LA Observed, 3 May
Wagley, Catherine. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.’” Photograph Magazine, 17 May
Anglada, Cristina. “Nuevas Narrativas.” CURADOR Magazine, July
“Hereditary Language. Lisa Oppenheim.” Cura Magazine (online), July
Kraemer, Gilles. “In Remnants: Lisa Oppenheim.” Les Curieux Arts, 6 July
Oppenheim, Lisa. “Things We Like: Dog Collar.” Spike Art Quarterly, #44, Summer
Harren, Natilee. “’Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography.’” Artforum, September
Cotter, Holland. “Art Review: Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye.” The New York Times, 4 December

2014
Höller, Christian. “Lisa Oppenheim: From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004-2014).” Springerin, Issue 3/14
Lübbke-Tidow, Maren. “Lisa Oppenheim: From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004-2014).” Camera Austria, Issue 126
Smith, T’ai. “Binding Economies: Tectonics and Sieve.” Texte zur Kunst, June
Khanna, Shama. “Lisa Oppenheim.” Frieze, January/February
Cembalest, Robin. “101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week.” ARTnews, 6 February
Derieux, Florence, Gruijthuijsen, Krist, Steinbrügge, Bettina, eds., Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003–2013 (catalogue), Sternberg Press, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Grazer Kunstverein, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Lübbke-Tidow, Maren, “Lisa Oppenheim: From Abigail to Jacob (works 2004-2014),” Camera Austria, No. 126, p. 76-77
Höller, Christian, “Lisa Oppenheim: From Abigail to Jacob (works 2004-2014),” Springerin, No. 3/14, p. 62-63
Smith, T’ai, “Binding Economies: Tectonics and Sieve,” Texte zur Kunst, June
Khanna, Shama, “Lisa Oppenheim”, Frieze, January/February

2013
Dawood, Shezad, ed., Black Sun: Alchemy, Diaspora and Heterotopia,published on the occasion of Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India, Arnolfini, Ridinghouse
Johnson, Ken, Images Propelled Beyond Pictures, The New York Times, 13th September, p. C21-C23
Khanna, Shama, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Frieze, Issue 160, January
Herd, Colin, Redefining the Medium: New Photography 2013, Aesthetica, p. 34-38
Knoblauch, Loring, New Photography 2013 @ MoMA, Collector Daily, 1st October
Museum of Modern Art, “New Photography 2013”, New Yorker, September, p.33
Pollack, Maika, On View: ‘New Photography 2013’, The New York Observer, 30th Sebtember, p. 1,4
Pollack, Barbara, “New Photography 2013”, TimeOut New York, October/November, p. 48
Bryant, Eric, Shooting Stars, Art + Auction, October, p. 130-135
Corbett, Rachel, MoMA’s “New Photography” Survey Shows the Medium Morphing Into a New Dimension, Artspace, 13th September
Mall the right moves, Wallpaper, Issue 177, December
Pollack, Maika, ‘New Photography 2013’ at the Museum of Modern Art, Gallerist, 24th September
Jannssen, Renske, Lisa Oppenheim, Frieze, 18th February
Scholis, Brian, Lisa Oppenheim: Elemental Process, Aperture No. 211, May
Hanson, Sarah, Shooting Stars, Art + Auction, October
Woodward, Richard, Image Making in the Aftermath of the Digital Revolution,The Wall Street Journal, 24th July
Woodward, Richard, The SX-70 as Sexy Tech, The Wall Street Journal, 6thMay
Holmes, Pernilla, Thinking outside the box, Financial Times online, 2nd May
Schwendener, Martha, Art Review: Instant Photographs, Lasting Images, The New York Times, 26th April
Oppenheim, Lisa. Fish Scale, Veritable Hollandais (Version 8), 2012 on the front cover of Nero, Winter issue.
Tilghman, Parker, Photogrpahy for the end of the world, Artslant.com, 11thDecember

2012
Rhodes, David, Critics’ Picks: Lisa Oppenheim, Artforum, December
Tilgham, Parker, Photography for the end of the world, ArtSlant.com, 11th December
Kopsa, Maxine, Conceptual Sex: Modernism Acknowledges Colour, Metropolis M, June
Stuber, Tracy, Smoke on Film: Lisa Oppenheim’s conceptual photography, Modern Painters, May
Thorne, Sam, Recto/Verso, Frieze, Issue 147, May
Pataczek, Anna, Ich versteh nur Chinglisch, Der Tagesspiegel, 1st February
Richter, Peter, Lost in Isa Genzken. Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung, 29th January
Rosenberg, Karen, Lisa Oppenheim: Equivalents, The New York Times, 31stMay
Goings On About Town: Lisa Oppenheim, The New Yorker, 4th June
Woodward, Richard, Seeing Beyond The Surface: Lisa Oppenheim: Equivalents, The Wall Street Journal, 1st June
Herbert, Martin, Now See This, Art Review, November, p. 44.
Myers, Holly, Art Review: ‘No Person May Carry a Fish Into a Bar’ at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Times, 2nd August

2011
Vozmediano, Elena, Lisa Oppenheim, de la combustión, El Cultural, 30th September
Tan, Lumi, Free, Frieze, Issue 137, March
Kappeler, Suzanne, Review: “Historische Nachforschungen”, Neue Zücher Zeitung, 16th February
Conner, Michael, Wild Sky (catalogue), Hatje Cantz Verlag

2010
Cluitmans, Laurie, Extending Time: Lisa Oppenheim, Metropolis M, Number 5, October-November
Rosenberg, Karin, A Show Is All Cyber, Some of the Time, The New York Times, 21st October
Rattemeyer, Christian, Lunagrams, Fantom Photographic Quarterly, Issue 3, Spring
Wehr, Anne, Review: Invention Without a Future, Frieze, Issue 128, Jan-Feb
Tikhonova, Yulia, Review: Invention Without a Future, Flash Art, Jan-Feb
Lisa Oppenheim, Lay Flat 02: Meta, February

2009
Diaz, Eva, Critic’s Pick: Lisa Oppenheim, Artforum.com, 14th September
Droitcour, Brian, Looking Back: Lisa Oppenheim at tank.tv, Rhizome.org, Tuesday 14th July
Noé, Paola, Critic’s Pick: Don’t Expect Anything, Artforum.com, 10th March
Coburn, Tyler, Reviews Marathon: New York, ArtReview, March
Twilight Art, Carefully Aimed Darts.blogspot.com, February
Killed Negatives: Lisa Oppenheim and Etienne Chambaud, Carefully Aimed Darts.blogspot.com, February
Schwendener, Martha, Get Your Anxiety Right Here, Village Voice, February

2008
Simon, Taryn (guest ed.), Blind Spot, Issue 39
Alemani, Cecilia, The Dark Side of the Moon, Mousse Magazine, Issue 16, December
Goings On About Town: Quiet Politics, The New Yorker, 1st September
Special Focus: Photography, Lisa Oppenheim, ArtReview, September
Auricchio, Laura, Quiet Politics, Time Out New York, 13th-19th August
Goodrich, John, Political Art, Love It or Leave It, The New York Sun, 28th August
Carlin, T.J., Quiet Politics, Art Review, 26th June – 29th July
Coburn, Tyler, Rhizome News: The Quiet Storm, Rhizome.org, 4th July
Reeves, Emma, Lisa Oppenheim: Killed Negatives, After Walker Evans, The Journal, Number 22, Spring
Gallois, Christophe, Neutre Intense/The Book, ed.

2007
O’Connell, Brian, Between Appropriation and Reconstruction, Art and Research, Summer
Fanego, Pablo Fernandez, How Soon is Now?, (Exhibition Catalogue), Coruna, Spain
Downey, Anthony, Liverpool Biennial 2006, Flash Art, January–February, p.64
Malasauskas, Raimundas, Visiones y Revaleciones. Fahrenheit, vol. 26, December
Sholis, Brian, Conventional Center, Artforum.com, 6th December

2006
Behrman, Pryle, In Search of the Ideal Biennial, Art Monthly, November
Mosquera, Gerardo, Lisa Oppenheim, Liverpool Biennial Catalogue, Liverpool, UK
Re:Visie, (Catalogue), Centraal Museum Utrecht, p.p. 241, 245
Knight, Christopher, Around the Galleries, The Los Angeles Times, 21st July
Fox, Killian, What a Turn-up: A Sprawling but Often Inspiring Collection has Emerged from the Beleaguered
Biennial Team in Liverpool
, The Observer, 24th September
LeFeuvre, Lisa, Lisa Oppenheim, Art Monthly, November, p.14-15
Smith, Roberta, Dice Thrown, New York Times, 3rd November
Doran, Ann, Dice Thrown, Time Out New York, 2nd–8th November
Griffin, Jonathan, Liverpool Biennial, Frieze, November
Kersting, Rita, Top 10 Shows of 2006, Lisa Oppenheim and Alexandra Lejkauf, Artforum, December, p. 298

2005
Lutticken, Sven, Lisa Oppenheim, Artforum, December
Berrebi, Sophie, and Jonge Holland, The Document as Idea, December
Up and Coming Photographers of 2005, ArtReview, October
Gortzak, Roos, Lisa Oppenheim, ArtReview, September
Smallenburg, Sandra, Old Words, New Images: Lisa Oppenheim at Galerie Juliette Jongma, NRC Handelsblad, 1st July

2004
Documentary Evidence, Cultural Supplement, Le Monde, 13th May
Snyder, George, Garden of Artistic Delights; At the intersection of nature and humans, art meets botany in a revelatory show at the Sonoma County Museum, San Francisco Chronicle, 22nd October
Keijer, Kees, Review of Open Studios, Het Parool, 27th November
Botany Catalogue, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, USA

2003
Waxman, Lori, Critic’s Picks: Hard Times, Artforum.com, Summer

Awards, Residencies and Fellowships

2021
Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet

2014
Recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize
Recipient of the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography – The Israel Museum

2008
Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Visual Arts Grant

2007
Illy Art Prize

2004–2005
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Fellowship and Residency from the Dutch Ministry of Culture

1999–2001
Recipient of three Bard College Fellowships

Publications & Catalogues

2014
“Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003-2013” Published by Sternberg Press, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Grazer Kunstverein, and Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2014.

Published Texts

2011
Survey: On Screen, Frieze, Issue 141, September
Lisa Oppenheim: Accidental Networks, MAP #25, Spring

2010
Annette Kelm: A Precise, Wideranging Scavenger, Flash Art, March-April

Curatorial

2013
Artist Talk, Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, New York, 19th November
Cimetière d’Ixelles, An Art in General New Commission, curated by Lisa Oppenheim & Lisa Tan, New York, USA

2012
Artists’ Film Club: Lisa Oppenheim – Double, ICA, London, February
High Line Channel: Eyeballing, The High Line, New York, 6th March – 10th April

2010
LLAMA, Conduits Gallery, Milan, December

2009
A Twilight Art, co-curated with Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman, New York, January

Public Collections

Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
FRAC Piemonte, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
Shpilman Institute of Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

    Lisa Oppenheim

    The American Colony

    28th March 2019 - 5th May 2019

    Sublime Smoke

    Lisa Oppenheim & John Stezaker
    The Annexe

    1st October 2017 - 5th November 2017

    Spine

    MOCA, Cleveland, USA

    27th January 2017 - 14th May 2017

    Lisa Oppenheim

    Analytic Engine

    7th April 2016 - 15th May 2016

    Hereditary Language

    FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

    20th June 2015 - 20th September 2015

    Forever is Composed of Nows

    Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

    27th September 2014 - 18th January 2015

    Lisa Oppenheim

    Heaven Blazing into the Head

    22nd March 2013 - 21st April 2013

    Recto/Verso

    Michele Abeles
    Robert Heinecken
    Alexandra Leykauf
    Dóra Maurer
    Lisa Oppenheim
    Erin Shirreff

    3rd February 2012 - 11th March 2012

Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003 – 2013

Lisa Oppenheim