Catherine Opie

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Sandusky, Ohio, 1961.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Education:
BFA San Francisco Art Institute, 1985
MFA CalArts, 1988

2000 – 2001 Professor of Fine Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2001 – present Professor of Fine Art, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2011
“Catherine Opie”, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
“Catherine Opie” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 12 – September 5, 2011
“Catherine Opie”: New Zeland; Zero to Something, projectspace B431, Elam School of fine Arts, New Zeland.
“Catherine Opie: Football Landscapes,” Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway, January 15- February 26, 2011
2010 
“Catherine Opie,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, October 23 – February 6, 2011
“Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA, July 25 – October 17, 2010
“Catherine Opie: High School Football Players,” Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian
Verlag, Munich, Germany, May 20 – June 10, 2010
“Venezia/ Venice,” Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, May 19 – July 30, 2010
“Catherine Opie: Twelve Miles to the Horizon,” Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA,
April 24 – May 22, 2010
“Catherine Opie: Girlfriends,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, March 19- April 24,2010
2008  
“Catherine Opie The Distant Blue: Photographs from Alaska,” Stephen Friedman
Gallery, London, UK, October 14 – November 14, 2008
“Catherine Opie: American Photographer,” Guggenheim Museum, New York,
September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009
“Catherine Opie,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 10 – May 17, 2008
2006 
Gladstone Gallery, New York, NewYork, Fall 2006
MCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Summer 2006
“1999 & In and Around Home,” Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, January 22 – May 14, 2006; travels to The Orange County Museum of Art, CA; June 4 – September 3, 2006; travels to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, OH, September 29 – December 30, 2006; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, February 11 – April 29,2007; cat.
2004   
“Catherine Opie: Surfers,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, January 10 – February 14
“Catherine Opie: Surfers,” Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, March 13 – April 10
“Catherine Opie: Surfers,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, January 22 -February 21
“Catherine Opie: Children,” Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 27 – December 4
2002  
“Catherine Opie: Icehouses,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 11 – June 15
“Catherine Opie: Skyways and Icehouses,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN,April 28 – July 21, cat.
“Catherine Opie: Icehouses,”Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 2 – November 6
2001   
“Wall Street,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England, November 30 – January 19, 2002
“Wall Street 2000-2001,” presented by Antik in cooperation with Gorney, Bravin & Lee,New York, November 3 – December 10
2000  
“Catherine Opie: In between here and there,” The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October 6 – November 6, brochure.
“Catherine Opie,” The Photographers Gallery, London, England, August 9 – September 24; travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 18, 2000 – February 18, 2001, cat.
“Catherine Opie,” Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY, March 18 – April 15
“Catherine Opie: Large Format Polaroids,” Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, May 12 -June 10
“Catherine Opie,” Susan Inglett, New York, NY, February 24 – April 1
“Catherine Opie,” Art Pace, San Antonio, TX, April 6 – July 2
“Catherine Opie,” Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina, April 1 – May 27
1999  
“Domestic,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, November 10 – December 20
“Catherine Opie: A Survey,” Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3 – October 16
1998     
“Mini-Malls,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1997
“Catherine Opie,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 5 – Feb. 8
“Houses and Landscapes,” Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
“Portraits and Houses,” Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996   
“Houses and Landscapes,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Houses and Freeways,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, NY
“Freeways,” Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995   
“Portraits,” enterprise, New York, NY
“Portraits,” Parco, Tokyo, Japan
“Portraits,” Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
“Portraits and Freeways,” Richard Foncke Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
1994  
“Portraits,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Portraits,” Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“L.A. Freeways,” Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991
“Being and Having,” 494 Gallery, New York, NY
1990
“A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Park, Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings,” Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1989 
“Master Plan,” United States Post Office, Valencia, CA
“Master Plan,” Mills College, Oakland, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION:

2011
“Politics is Personal,” Stonescape, Napa Valley, CA, July 2011
2010  
“The City Proper,” curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 2010 January 15, 2011
“The Artist’s Museum,” Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 31, 2010-January 31, 20112
“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 30- February 13, 2011, cat.
“IMAGE. ARCHITECTURE. NOW.” curated by Audrey Landreth, Julius Shulman Institute, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, October 9, 2010
“Decadence Now! Visions of Excess,” Exhibition Hall of Museum of Decorative Arts and Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, September 30, 2010- January 2, 2011
“Trust,” Media City Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art; travels to Gyeonhuigung Annex of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of History, and the Simpson Memorial Hall, September 7 – November 17, 2010
“Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection,” San Jose Museum of Art, CA, July 22, 2010 – March 14, 2011
“Housed,” The Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY, July 1 – September 5, 2010
“Swell, Art 1950 – 2010,” Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metro Pictures, and Nyehaus Galleries, New York, June 30 – August 6, 2010
“Ars Homo Erotica,” National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 11 – September 5, 2010, cat.
“Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, June 10 – September 27, 2010, cat.
“The Tattoo Show,” The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, New York, NY, June 3- September 7, 2010
“15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, May 2- September 19, 2010
“Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, April 25- August 22, 2010
“On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans,” Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School, North Andover, MA, April 2- June 12, 2010
“Contemporary Urban Panoramas: Los Angeles, New York, Reykjavik,” Center for Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 2 – June 6, 2010
“Hard Targets,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, January 29 – April 11, 2010
“R for Replicant,” 101 Collection: Route 1, CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, January 19 – April 10, 2010
2009
“Creating Identity: Portraits Today,” 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, September 8, 2009 April 10, 2010
“Bitch is the New Black: Curated by Emma Gray,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 11 – August 29, 2009
“Underwater,” Western Bridge, Seattle, May 22 – August 2, 2009
“The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography,” New Orleans, Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, May 16 – August 12, 2009
“Everywhere: Sexual Diversity and Policies in Art,” Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, May 14 – September 20, 2009
“Creating Identity: Portraits Today,” 21c Museum and International Contemporary Art Foundation. Louisville, KY, August 2009 – April 2010.
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, April 16 – May 10, 2009
“sh(OUT): Human Rights and Contemporary Art,” Gallery of Mo5dern Art, Glasgow, April 8, 2009 – November 1, 2009
“Los Angeles,” The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, March 27-June 28, 2009
“Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” organized by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 29 – June 8, 2009
“Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, February 1 – March 29, 2009
2008   
“Road Trip,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, September 19, 2008 – January 25, 2009
“Other People: Portraits from the Grunwald and Hammer Collections,” curated by Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, November 26 , 2008 – March 22, 2009 “Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography,” National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, October 17, 2008 – January 25, 2009
“Listen Darling…The World is Yours,” curated by Lisa Phillips, Ellipse
Foundation, Cascais, Portugal, October
“War as a Way of Life,” Campbell, Clayton, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA,September 27 – December 19, 2008
“Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding,” curated by Kevin Killian and Oolter Jacobsen,Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, June 27 – August 2, 2008
“Idle Youth,” curated byRussell Ferguson, Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 26 –August 15, 2008
“This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs,” The
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino CA,
May 1 – October 20, 2008
“In Repose: An exhibition from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Miami Beach, Florida,” curated by Lorie Mertes, The Galleries at Moore, Goldie Paley Gallery Philadelphia, PA, January 26 – March 14, 2008; cat.
2007  
“Knocking the Door,” curated by Chison Kang, International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, November 10 December 10, 2007, catalogue
“Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,November 17, 2007 – January 13, 2008
“Refugees of Group Selection,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, September 18 – October 27, 2007
“All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy And Empathy,” co-curated by Robert Lehman and Eric Fischl, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York August 12 – October 14, 2007; cat.
“Passion Complex: Secelted Works from the Albright Knox Art Gallery,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, August 1 – November 11, 2007
“Darling, take Fountain,” curated by Konstantin Kakanias, Kalfayan Galleries,
Athens, Greece, June 1 – September 29, 2007
“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art & Feminism,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain, June 22 – September 9, 2007
“Global Feminisms,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 23 – July 1, 2007; cat.
“Pretty Baby,” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, February 25 – May 27, 2007
“Multiple vantage points: Southern California Women Artists”, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA, February 11 – April 29, 2007
“Family Pictures,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, February 9 – April 16, 2007
“Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 16 – April 8, 2007
2006  
“Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection,” Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, December 46, 2006 – May 31, 2007; cat.
“The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society,” curated by Okwui Enwezor, Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, October 26, 2006 – January 15, 2007; cat.
“Couples Discourse,” Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 10 – December 22, 2006; cat.
“Sixteen Tons: UCLA Department of Art Faculty,” New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, September 14 – October 26, 2006
“The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960,” Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany, August 19 – November 12, 2006
“Photographs That I Love,” curated by Patricia R. Faure, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, July 22 – August 26, 2006
“Still Points of the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth International Biennial,” curated 4by Klaus Otttmann, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 9, 2006 – January 7, 2007
“The Last Time They Met,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England, April 28 – May 27, 2006
“Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from San Francisco Art Institute,” San Francisco Art Institute, May 11 – July 29, 2006
“Step Into Liquid,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, January 27 – May 28, 2006
“Dark Places,” Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA,
January 21- April 22, 2006
“Skin Is a Language,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, January 12 – May 21, 2006
2005  
“Literally and Figuratively. Photographic Portraits,” The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 15, 2005 – May 21, 2006
“Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time,” Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts, November 13, 2006 – February 12, 2006
“The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography,” curated by Tina Kukielski, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, September 30, 2005 – January 15, 2006
“Family Pictures: Contemporary Photography, and Video from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum,” organized by Jennifer Blessing, Galleria Gottardo in Lugano, Switzerland, September 28 – December 23, 2005; cat.
“Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art,” curated by Max Hollein and Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, May 12 – August 28, 2005
“Anniversary Exhibition,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, March 29 – April 23, 2005
“Bidibidobidiboo,” Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2005, catalogue
“Farsites: Urban crisis and domestic symptoms in recent contemporary art,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Centro Cultural, Tijuana/San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, August 26 – November 13, 2005
“Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel April 12 – November 5, 2005
“Getting Emotional,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, May 18 – September 5, 2005
“Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye,” curated by Francesco Bonami, MCA, Chicago, IL, February 12 – June 5, 2005; cat.
“Contemporary Photography and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies,” organized by the American Federation of Arts, travels to The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, January 20– April 17, 2005; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, May 22 – July 17, 2005; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, October 21, 2005 – January 2, 2006; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, January 14 – April 30, 2006; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, May 13 – August 20, 2006; TBD, September 15 – December 10, 2006; Hudson River Museum Yonkers, NY, January 5 – April 1, 2007; Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE, June – September 2007
2004  
“26th Sao Paulo Biennial,” curated by Alfons Hug, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 25 – December 19, 2004
“The Leopard Spots: Between Art, Performance, and Club Culture,” 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, August 7 – October 16, 2004
“That Bodies speak, has been known for a long time,” Generali Foundation, Wien,Austria, January 25-April 25 2004
“The Whitney Biennial,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY, March 10-May 30, 2004
“100 Artists See God,” Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, March 7 – June 27, 2004; Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA, July 25 – October 3, 2004;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, November 19 – January 9, 2005; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, June 9 – September 4, 2005, cat.
2003     
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 – March 8, 2003
“Intimates,” Angles, Los Angeles, CA, August 9-September 13, 2003
“Art, Lies and Videotape,” Tate Liverpool, UK, November 14 – January 25, 2004
“Still Life, Still Here,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA,
June 29-August 31, 2003
“Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art,” Neue Galerie Graz und
Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria. April 26–August 24, 2003
“Site Specific,” curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, May 31 – August 31, 2003
“Portraiture,” Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, April 26 – May 24
“Micropolitics I. Art and Everyday Life: 2001 – 1989,” Espai d’Art
Contemporani de Castelló, January 10 – March 30, 2003
“Elegy: Contemporary Ruins,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CA,
January 24 – May 25, Curated by Katharine Smith-Warren
“Imperfect Innocence,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, January 11 – March 11
“Phantom of Pleasure,” Neue galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, April 26 – August 24, cat.
“Just Love Me: Post Feminist Art of 1990s from Goetz Collection,” Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Germany, August 22-October 26, 2003; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Germany, April 24-June 14, 2004, cat.
“5 Year < Retro,” Conner Contemporary Art, Washignton, D.C., December 5, 2003-January 31, 2004
2002 
“Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, September 21 – December 21
“Die Wohltat Der Kunst – Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz,” Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, September 14 – November 10
“Photographic Impulse: Highlights from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 12 – November 10
“En Route,” Serpentine Gallery, London, September 18 – October 27, cat.
“The Self,” curated by Noriko Fuku, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, June 12 – July 7, cat.
“Ghost Image,” Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY, June 1 – 30
“Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950 – 2000,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, June 1 – November 3
“Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000,” curated by Sylvia Wolf, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, June 27 – Sept. 22
“Hautnah, Die Sammlung Goetz,” Museum Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germany, May 30 – August 18
“Fusion Cuisine,” curated by Katerina Gregos, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, June 26 – October 30, cat.
2001   
“EXTRAordinary,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, December 2 – February 24, 2002
“fe/male,” Plakat-Intervention U-Bahnstation, Braunschweiggasse, Vienna, Austria, August 1 – 31
“The “O” Portfolio,” Domestic Furniture, Los Angeles, CA, May 19 – August 25
“The Great Wide Open,” The Huntington, San Marino, CA, June 14
“Open City Street Photographs Since 1950,” Musuem of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Co-curators Kerry Brougher, and Russell Ferguson, May 6 – July 15; travels to The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester, U.K., Oct. 20 – January 3, 2002; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, January 21, 2002 – April 28, 2002; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., June 20, 2002 – September 8, 2002
“The Slide Area,” curated by Terry R. Myers, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belguim, February 16 – March 3, 2000
“Before They Became Who They Are,” Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Norman Dubrow, January 13-February 10, 2001
“Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California,” Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, January 26 – March 25
“Uniforme / Ordine e Disordine,” , curated by Francesco Bonami, Pitti Images Florence, Italy, January 11, – February 18, 2001, traveled to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY, May 20 – September 23, 2001
2000 
“Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000 – February 25, 2001, cat.
“Magnetic North,” curated by Jenny Lion,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN,
October 2000: Canadian Premiere, Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 2000, cat.
“Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California,” University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA, June 20 – August 6, 2000; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, November 11 – December 17, 2000;The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, January 23 – April 29, 2001
“Catherine Opie & John Kirchner,” Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
“Escape_Space,” Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany, brochure
“Sites Around the City: Art and Environment,” ASU Art Museum, Arizona,
March – April, 2000, cat.
“Age of Influence,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, April 8 – December, 2000
“Representing,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, March 4 – April 27, 2000
“L.A.,” Monika Spruth & Philomene Magers, Koln, Germany, March 5 – April 22, 2000
“L.A.- ex,” Museum Villa Stuck & Marstall, Munich, Germany, April 12 – June 12, 2000
“L.A.,” Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, November 20, 2000 – January 5, 2001
“Drive: power>progress>desire,” Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth,
New Zealand, February 12 – April 30, cat.
“Rear View Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities,” curated by Kevin Jon Boyle,University of California at Riverside Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, cat.
“The California Invitational,” Ansel Adams Center for Photography,
San Francisco, CA
“AutoWerke,” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1999  
“Los Angeles,” Philomene Magers Projektes & Maxmilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
“The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY, September 23, 1999 – February 27, 2000
“Foul Play,” Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, September 30 – November 20
“The Modernist Document,” curated by Nancy Shaw, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, September 9 – October 16
“Plain Air,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July – August
“Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century,” UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, June 2 – August 22
“Signs of Life,” Melbourne International Biennial, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia, curated by Juliana Engberg, May 14 – June 27, cat.
“Drive-By: New Art from LA,” South London Gallery, London, England, curated by Sadie Coles, April 20-May 30; traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, June 26 – August 8
“Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 – 99,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, curated by Jessica Morgan
“Jerome Caja: Paintings from the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art,”
California State University, Fullerton, CA, curated by Signe J. Cook,
February 7 – February 21, 1999, cat.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Selected Articles and Reviews:

2011
“The Opie Bunch,” Out Magazine, February 2011, 52-53.
Larsen, Mona, “Maskulint-og følsmont,” Dagsavisen (Sweden,) January 15, 2011, 54-55.
Rød, Arve, “Amerikanske Landskaper,” DN lørdag (Norway,) January 15-16, 2011, 78.
Spurkland, Marte, “Amerikansk Fotoball,” DN2, (Norway,) January 14, 2011, 48.
2010  
Row, D.K., “Review: Catherine Opie at the Portland Art Museum and City/County Employee Exhibit,” December 23, 2010, The Oregonian,http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2010/12/review_catherine_opie_at_the_p.html
Buckley, Richard, “L.A. à l’art libre,” Vogue Paris, December 2010, p. 240-247 (ill)
Green, Tyler, “Our Avatars, Ourselves,” Modern Painters, December 2010/January 2011, p. 28 – 29 (ill)
Knight, Christopher, “An L.A. Assembly,” The Los Angeles Times, Monday, November 1, 2010, p. D1 & D6
Bartelik, Marek, “Ars Homo Erotica: National Museum Warsaw,” Artforum, October 2010, p. 294-295
Bradner, Liesl, “Friday Night Lives Captured,” The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 22, 2010, p. E2
“Catherine Opie,” D Magazine, La Repubblica, Issue 69, June 12, 2010, pp. D22
“Catherine Opie,” The New Yorker, April 26, 2010, p. 12
Rosenberg, Karen, “Different Angeles on the Portrait,” The New York Times, April 14, 2010, pp.C1 & C5 (ill.)
Breese, Kristine Stiven, “The Strip-Mall Sensibility,” UCLA Hammer Magazine, January 2010, pp. 28-29 (ill).
Costantino, Tracie, and Boyd White, eds. “A Beauty Contest(ed).” Essays on Aesthetic
Education for the 21st Century. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2010. pp. 22- 26 (ill.)
2009   
Kellner, Amy, “Catherine Opie,” Vice, July 2009
Molesworth, Helen, “Social Problem,” Artform, March 2009, p. 101-102
O’Sullivan, Michael, “The Story Behind the Work,” The Washington Post, January 9, 2009, p. WE19
Combs, Chris, “Women’s Work: ‘Role Models’ Plays with Feminism,” expressnightout.com, January 8, 2009
2008
Frolick, Stuart, “Return on Investment: Catherine Opie,” CALARTS Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 6-7, ill.
Dykstra, Jean, “Opie: The Community of Difference,” Art in America, December 2008
Schaffer, Johanna, Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit (Uber die visuellen Strukturen der Anerkennung)
Bielfeld, DE: Trannscript Verlag, 2008. p.128-130
Knight, Christopher, “Sitting Pretty: ‘American Photographer’ Gives a Full Portrait of Opie,” The Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, December 9, 2008, E1, E5 (ill.)
Aletti, Vince, “Same Difference,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2008 (ill.)
Schwendener, Martha, “Dykes! Tutus! Off-ramps! The Guggenheim Mounts a Catherine Opie
Catherine Retrospective,” The Village Voice, Tuesday, October 7, 2008,http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/art/dykes-tutus-off-ramps-the-guggenheim- mounts-a-catherine-opie-retrospective/ (ill.)
Campbell, Clayton, “Catherine Opie: Small Town Girl Making a Big City Statement,” THE Magazine, September 2008, pp. 38-39 (ill.)
Benedictus, Leo, “Catherine Opie’s Best Shot,” The Guardian, Thursday, October 9 (ill.)
Wilton, Khris, “Catherine Opie,” ArtInfo.com, October 3, 2008,http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28788/catherine-opie (ill.)
Cotter, Holland, “A Retrospective of Many Artists, All of Them One Woman,” The New York Times, p.B29, September 26, 2008 (ill.)
Bedford, Christopher, “Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA,” Frieze, Issue 117, September, p. 189 (ill.)
“Catherine Opie American Photographer,” The Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2008, F24 (ill.) Burton, Philippa, “You’ve Been Framed,” Diva, September 2008, pp. 37-39, ills
Campbell, Clayton, “ Catherine Opie Regen Projects,” Flash Art, July-September 2008 , p. 250-1, ill.
Schad, Ed, “Catherine Opie Regen Projects,” ArtReview, June 2008, p. 154 (ill.)
“Weekend Hangs,” Angeleno, June, p. 131.
Knight, Christopher, “Stopped at the 50-yard line,” The Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2008, p. E14 &E15, ill.
Kim Beil, “’Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf’ at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum (SBCAF),” art ltd., March 2008, p. 18
2007   
Olivares, Rosa, et. al., “Uniformes/Uniforms,” Exit: Image & Culture, no. 27, published by Olivares & Associates, S.L., Madrid, Spain, 2007, pp. 91, 177, ills
Keeker, Korry, “Capturing Juneau’s Essence,” Juneau Empire, September 7, 2007, ills
Heartney, Eleanor, “Worldwide Women,” Art In America, June/July 2007, pp. 154-164, ill.
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Women’s Work: Feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum,” The New Yorker, April 9, 2007, pp. 73
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Welcoming Gardens, Whispering ‘Photograph Me,’” The New York Times, March 11, 2007, p. 10, ills
Patterson, Tom, “America: Photos Make You Think About It,” RelishNow, journalnow.com, March 4, 2007.
Scott, Joe, “Home & Away,” Go Triad, www.gotriad.com, March 14, 2007.
2006  
Viegener, Matias, “In and Around Whose Home?,” X-TRA, Winter 2006, pp. 24-27, ills
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Catherine Opie: Gladstone,” ARTnews, November 2006, p. 180, ill.
Colpitt, Frances, “Report from Santa Fe I: A Slow-Motion Biennial,” Art In America,October 2006, pp. 69-75, ills
Saltz, Jerry, “Lonely Hunter,” villagevoice.com, September 21, 2006.
Timberg, Scott, “UCLA Celebrates Its New Art Center,” The Los Angeles Times,
September 14, 2006
Myers, Terry R., “Catherine Opie,” Art Review, September 2006, p. 142, ill.
Kinney, Tulsa, “Exposed: Cathy Opie’s California,” artillery, September 2006, pp. 26-7, 31, ills
Diaz, Karla, “Catherine Opie: Orange County Museum of Art,” Beautiful/Decay, Issue P,p. 42, ills
Knight, Christopher, “Sharp but blurred around the edges,” The Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2006, pp. E1 & E27, ills
Mendenhall, Lauri, “The Power of Portraiture,” Coast, August 2006, pp. 182 & 184, ills
Journal, Jones, Amelia, “Rupture,” 123 Parachute, July – September 2006, pp. 22 & 30, ill.
Journal, “Catherine Opie: Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josefina Ayerza,” Lacanian ink,
#27, Spring 2006, front and back covers, pp. 150-5, ills
Walsh, Daniella, “Picture Imperfect,” The Orange County Register, July 9, 2006
Wang, Jen, “California Visionary,” C Magazine, June/July 2006,
Knight, Christopher, “Classic Paint Job,” The Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2006, p. S32, ill.
_______, “Fabulous Photos of Catherine Opie,” Newport News, June 9, 2006
_______, “Opie photo exhibit debuts at OC Museum of Art,” The Current, June 2, 2006
Dykstra, Jean, “Road Trip,” ArtReview, June 2006, pp. 40-42, ills
Walsh, Daniella, “The Radar Art,” Riviera, May 2006
Genocchio, Benjamin, “More than Meets the Eye: Catherine Opie and Her Camera Find
Beauty in the Mundane,” The New York Times, January 29, 2006, Connecticut Section, ills
2005 
Myers, Holly, “State of the Art 2005: Catherine Opie,” LA Weekly, October 28 –November 3, 2005, p. 52, ill.
Neil, Dan, “What a Rush,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 6, 2005, p. 13, ill.
2004  
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Armand Hammer’s Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los Angeles,” The New York Times, October 6, 2004, pp. B1 & B9
Gardiner, Virginia, “Suburban Sprawl,” Dwell, September 2004, pp. 140 – 142, ills.
Lee, Cynthia, “Visual Road Trip,” UCLA Magazine, Summer 2004, pp. 14 – 15, ills.
Valdez, Sarah, “Catherine Opie at Regen Projects,” Art in America, May 2004, pp. 170-171, ill.
Ybarra, Michael,”Portraying the Divine,” Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2004, p.B2
Rosenberg, Karen, “Last Shot Hang Ten,” New York Magazine, April 12, 2004, p. 118, ill.
Hainley, Bruce, “Catherine Opie,” ArtForum, April 2004, pp. 164 – 165, ill.

Exley, Roy, “Catherine Opie,” ArtReview, April International Edition, 2004, p. 100,ill.
Green, Tyler, “Artist, Leather Dyke, PTA Mom,” Black Book Progressive Culture,Spring 2004, p. 86-90, ills.
Aletti, Vince, “Show World,” The Village Voice, March 22, 2004
Hoban, Phoebe, “7BRs, Ocn Vu, WrldClass Art,” The New York Times, March 14, 2004,pp. 1 & 30-31
Kimmelman, Michael, “Touching All Bases At the Biennial,” The New York Times,March 11, 2004, pp.E27, E38
Opie, Catherine, “My Favorite Weekend: Catherine Opie,” Los Angeles Times,
March 4, 2004, p. E63, ill.
Williams, Gilda, “Catherine Opie,” Art Monthly, March 4, 2004, p. 28, ill
Young, Paul, “Money, Power and Picasso’s Bathroom,” V Life, February/March 2004,pp. 80 –87, ill.
Miles, Christopher, “Los Angeles Critics’ Picks,” Artforum.com February 2004, ill.
Knight, Christopher, “A curator and her compatriot,” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2004, p.E2, ill.
Roug, Louise, “She’s the viewfinder,” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2004, p. E2, ill.
Myers, Holly, “From frozen lakes to Malibu coast,” Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2004,p.E25
McIntosh, Jacqui, “The subtler side of surfing,” The Guardian, January 28, 2004
Gleadell, Colin, “Object of the week,” The Daily Telegraph, January 19, 2004
Evans,Leslie, “Catherine Opie’s Surfers,” westadams-normandie.com, January 13, 2004
Feature Illustration, “L.A. Moment: Ghost Riders,” Los Angeles Magazine, January 2004, p. 24
2003    
Opie, Catherine, “Tempesta Di Ghiaccio.” Case da Abitare, (Italy) December 2003 pp. 15-16, ill.
Sheets, Hilarie, “There’s No Piece Like Home.” ARTnews, December 2003, p. 103, ill.
Fox, Catherine, “’Terrain’ well worth traversing,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
November 30, 2003, p. K6, ills
Key, Philip, “Still Happening Years Later.” Daily Post, London, November 21, 2003
Davis, Laura, “Yoko maps course for Tate.” Daily Post, London, November 6, 2003, p. 3
Opie, Catherine , “The Great Wide Open,” Sleek Magazine, Issue 03, Fall 2003,pp. 67-77, ill.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Watch Your Step,” ARTnews, Summer 2003, p. 127
Boriani, Glenda, “Micropolitics,” Tema Celeste, issue 96, March/April, 2003, p. 113, ill.
Gluckstern, J. “’Elegy’ Captures the of Formerly Iconic Buildings,” The Daily Camera,February 9, 2003
Voelz Chandler, Mary “Photos Build Art Among Ruins,” Rocky Mountain News,
January 24, 2003
2002   
Muchnic, Suzanne, “With all its hang-ups, the L.A. gallery scene thrives,” Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2002
Vine, Richard, “In Her Image,” Art in America, November 2002, p. 75
Coomer, Martin, “On the Way There”, Time Out London, October 9-16, 2002, p.57
Koroxenidis, Alexandra, “Fusion Cuisine,” frieze, October 2002, p.102
Turner, Jonathan, “Italy’s Mini-Boom,” Artnews, September 2002, p. 90
Denny, Ned, “Enigma of Arrival”, New Statesman London, September 30, 2002.
Russell Taylor, John, “Road from Nowhere”, The Times London, September 25, 2002.Güner, Fisun, “Everyday Drive By Shooting”, The Times London, September 23, 2002.
RCJ, “RCJ’s Best London Shows”, The Times London, September 21, 2002.
Sumpter, Helen, “Get A Move On”, The Big Issue London, September 16, 2002
Andrea Gilbert, Fusion Cuisine, Contemporary Magazine, September 2002, p.88
Boxer, Sarah, “If a Medium Loses its Message, Is it Still a Medium?” The New York Times,August 9, p. B28
Alexandra Koroxenidis, “Through the Eyes of Women,” Herald Tribune, Monday, July 29, 2002.
“Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950,” Journal of the Print World, Summer 2002, pp. 27-29 Garrett, Craig, “PlatinumOasis,” Flash Art, July-September, 2002, p. 58
O’Sullivan, Michael, “Hirshhorn’s Gritty ‘Open City’,” The Washington Post, pp. 45-46
Gopnik, Blake, “Just Point and Shoot. (But Plan First.)” The Washington Post, June 23, 2002, p.G1, G6
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna, “Reflecting on modern society,” The Washington Times, June 22, 2002, pp.D1-D5, ill.
Boxer, Sarah, “The Street Game is to be Distinctive Without Seeming to Work at It,” The New York Times, July 5, 2002
Myers, Holly, “Opie Landscape Photos Put Sentimentality on Ice,” Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2002, p. F26
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, “For Her, It’s Always About Community,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, May 12, pp. 53-54, ills.
Frank, Peter, “Catherine Opie, Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, May 2002, ill.
Herbert, Martin, “Catherine Opie,” teme celeste, March/April 2002, p. 77, ill.
Glover, Michael, “Catherine Opie,” Artnews, April 2002, p. 144, ill.
Pluk, Issue 4, January/February 2002, ills.
Zappaterra, Yolanda, “Catherine Opie, Stephen Friedman,” Time Out, January 9-16, 2002, ill. Tuchman, Phyllis, “Who Is Hot Today?” Town & Country, January 2002, p. 57
Perree, Rob, “Portfolio, Catherine Opie,” Kunstbeeld, n. 3, pp. 27-31, ills.
2001 
Guner, Fisun, “Art Review, Catherine Opie,” Metro, December 6, 2001, ill.
Pinsent, Richard, The Art Newspaper, December 2001, Issue 120, p. 67, ill.
Pinsent, Richard, “Adroitly controlled mise-en-scene at Entwistle,” The Art Newspaper,December 2001, p.67, ill.
Cork, Richard, “Richard Cork’s best London exhibitions, Catherine Opie,” The Times Guide,December 2001, pp. 15-21
Hofer, Manuela, “fe/male Undergroud,” an schlage, August, 2001, pp. 34-35
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, “Art under the Arch,” Art in America, July 2001, p. 43, ill.
“Kunst unterm Regenbogen,” bussi, June 2001, p. 35
Reilly, Maura, “The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie,” art journal,Summer 2001, pp. 82-95, ills
Solomon, Deborah, “Testemaker, New in Town, Dives Into A Caldron,” New York Times May 2, p. 9
Schleifer, Kristen B., “Catherine Opie,” Art On Paper, March-April, p. 90,ill.
Pankratz, Helga, “Blickfang am Bahnsteig,” lambda nachrichten, March 2001, pp. 35-36, ill.
Vincent, Steven, “Alice in Levittown,” Art and Auction, February 2001, pp. 106-112
Wang, Michael, “Catherine Opie,” The Harvard Photography Journal 2001. pp.4-11, ill.
2000   
_____, “Family Business,” Flash Art, November-December 2000,pp. 48, ill.
Gaines, Malik, “Opie’s Opus,” The Advocate, December 19, pp.52, ill.
_____, “Estate Projects,” Art On Paper, December 2000, pp. 27
Lebovici, Elisabeth, “Destabilising Gender,” Make, issue 89, November 2000, pp. 18-19, ill.
Symth, Cherry, “Catherine Opie,” Art Monthly, No. 240, October 2000, pp. 33, ill., cover
Davies, Willis, “The Photographers’ Gallery, London,” Zoom, September-October 2000, ill.
_____, “Opie Eye,” Gay Times, September 2000, ill.
_____, “Altered States of Catherine Opie,” The Pink Paper, September 22, 2000
Ellis, Samantha, “Last Chance,” Evening Standard, September 21, 2000, ill.
Kent, Sarah, ” Sex Symbols,” Time Out, September 6-13, 2000, ill.
_____, “Manipolazioni E Natura In Ritratti Americani,” MostreLondra, issue 39, August/September 2000
_____, ” American Dream,” Harvey Nichols Magazine, London, September 2000, ill. Smyth, Cherry, “Signage on the Body,” Diva, issue 52, September 2000, pp. 6-11, ill.
_____, “Catherine Opie Photographers’ Gallery, London,” Nova, September 2000 Freedman, Cheryl, “Catherine Opie,” What’s on in London, August 30, 2000, ill.
Cumming, Laura, “Putting the Pose Back into Pictures,” The Observer, August 28, 2000, ill.
Aidin, Rose, “Engendering Respect,” Evening Standard, August 21, 2000, ill.
Darwent, Charles, “American life laid bare in bodies and malls,” The Independent, August 20, 2000, ill.
Paterson, Elaine, “Photography,” Metro Life, August 9, 2000
Williams, Frances, “Photo Realism,” Time Out, August 9, 2000, ill.
Davies, Sophie, “Alt Culture,” Time Out, London, August 9, 2000, ill.
_____, ” Twister Sister,” Footloose, August 9, 2000
_____, “From Tomorrow,” Evening Standard, August 8, 2000, ill.
_____, ” What a Picture!” Girl About Town, London, August 7, 2000, ill.
Lawson, Debbie, “Altered States of America,” The Observer Magazine, August 6, 2000, p. 8 ill. Chapman, Peter, “Altered States of America,” The Independent, August 5, 2000, ill.
Sumpter, Helen, “Choice,” Hot Tickets, August 4-10, 2000, pp. 38
Charles, Marissa, “Altered Egos-American Style,” West End Extra, August 4, 2000, p. 15, ill.
_____, ” What if God is a Women?” Aura Magazine, August 2000, pp. 44.
Pinsent, Richard, “Altered States,” The Art Newspaper, August 2000, pp. 25
_____, “The Architecture of Gender,” Axiom, London, August 2000 JRT, “Catherine Opie,” The Saturday Times, London, August 2000, p.41, ill.
_____, “Twisted Sister,” Sainsbury’s Magazine, August 2000, ill.
“Catherine Opie,” ZOO, Issue 6, August, 2000, p. 336, ills.
Rosenfeld, Kathryn, “Catherine Opie,” New/Art Examiner, July/August, p.36, ill.
_____, “Photographs For Grown Ups,” Living Abroad Magazine,London, July 31, 2000, ill.
_____, “Gender Bender,” Axiom, London, July 28, 2000 pp.18 , ill.pp. 43, ill.
Taylor, David, “Out There,” Hot Tickets, July 4-10, 2000, p. 5, ill.
Leffingwell, Edward, “Catherine Opie at Gorney Bravin + Lee,” Art in America, July,2000, p. 105, ill.
Israel, Nico, “Catherine Opie at Gorney Bravin + Lee,” Artforum, Summer, 2000, p. 183,ill.
Schwendener, Martha, “Catherine Opie, ‘Large-Format Polaroids’,” Time Out New York, June 8-15, 2000, ill.
Coleman, Jonathon, “Taking Pictures in the Belly of the World’s Largest Camera,”The New Yorker, June 5, 2000
_____, “Sponsorship Opportunity at The Photographers’ Gallery,” Focus, May 2000, ill.
“Familiy Affair: Renowned photographer Catherine Opie goes on the road to document
lesbian families where they live,” The Advocate, April 30, 2000, pp. 114 – 117, ills.
Aletti, Vince, “American Women,” Village Voice, April 18, 2000, p. 69
“‘Culture Shock,’Review: Catherine Opie ‘Domestic’ at Gorney Bravin & Lee,” Washington Square News, April 14 – 16, 2000, p. 38 ,
“On View Homebodies,” New York Magazine, April 10, 2000, p. 111, ill.
Cotter, Holland, “Catherine Opie: Domestic” The New York Times, April 7, 2000, p. B38 ,
“Catherine Opie,” Village Voice, March 29 – April 4, 2000, p.83
1999  
Gockel, Cornelia, “Kunst aus Kalifornien,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, December 13, 1999, p. 38, ill.
Marriner, Robin, “LA Revisited,” Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue, 25, pp. 22-27, ills. , “The Modernist Document” Hour, October 7, 1999, p. 34, ill.
Otten, Liam, “Catherine Opie, photographer and Freund Fellow, to speak,” Record: Washington University in St. Louis, September 30, 1999, p. 5, ill.
Thomas, Mary, “Russian artist builds a dialogue and a photographer opens our eyes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette, September 4, 1999, p. B11, ills.
Schurenberg, Von Barbara, “Frohlich, hygienische, und keimfrei,” Die Welt, May 21, 1999, p. 12, ill.
Cotter, Holland, “Through Women’s Eyes Finally,” New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1999, pp. 92-96, ill.
Vincent, Steven, “Impact Players,” Art & Auction, May 15, 1999, pp. 75-81
Picker, Deborah, “Tall Tales: Catherine Opie looks in on lesbian domesticity,” LA Weekly,
May 14-20, 1999, p. 35, ill.
Herbert, Martin, “Drive-by,” Time Out London, May 12-19, 1999, ill.
Darwent, Charles, “Vacant & proud of it,” The Independent on Sunday,
May 9, 1999, p. S5, ill.
Beech, David, “Drive By,” Art Monthly, May, 1999, pp. 31-31, ill.
Searle, Adrian, “Life thru a Lens,” The Guardian, May 4, 1999, p. 12, ill.
Fulcher, Dawn, “Drive-by: New Art from LA,” Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22, p. 86, ill.
Pagel, David, “A New View of Life on the Home Front,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1999, p.F28, ill.
Rowlands, Penelope, “Previews: Catherine Opie,” Art & Auction, April 15, 1999,p. 75, ill.
Rawsthorn, Alice, “L.A. Story,” British Vogue, April, 1999, pp. 79-82, ills.
Sante, Luc, “It’s Alive: Release,” Metropolis, April, 1999, pp. 88-93, ills.
Aletti, Vince, “Lesbian Domestics,” Out, April, 1999, pp. 16, 32-33, ills.
1998  
Zeiger, Mimi, “Casualfornia/ Catherine Opie,”Loud Paper, volume 2, issue 3, pp. 14-17, ills., cover
Yablonsky, Linda “Berlin Sprawl” Time Out New York , November 5-12, p. 74
Pinto, Antonip Cerveira, “A Suspensao da Utopia,” A Semana, Portugal, October 9, Exposicoes,p.11, ill.
Faria, Oscar, “Dialogo Entre o Ceu e o Inferno,” Publico, Portugal, October 9, Artes & Ocios, p. 19,ill.
Rian, Jeff, “Sunshine & Noir and L.A. Times,” Flash Art, October, pp.61, 67, ill.
Ollman, Leah, “A Multi-Sided Look at ‘Lone Woman’,” The Los Angeles Times,
October 2, F29
“Catherine Opie,” BT Magazine, September, pp. 56-57, 85, ill.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “L.A. Story,” ARTnews, September, 1998, pp. 150-153, ills.
Rickels, Laurence A., “Already Given at the Office: On Techno Feminism,” Parallax, Issue 5,September
Zimmer, William, “Landscape, the Site, The Meaning of Place,” The New York Times,August 9, p.12 CT
Ise, Claudine, “‘Babes’ Aims to Demystify Expectations of Women,” The Los Angeles Times, July 24, p. F 33
“Current exhibition: Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997,” UCLA at the Armand
Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Cultural Programs Calendar, Fall, ill.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Acquisition and Merger,” Artnews, Summer, p. 74
Allen, Rachel, “Lesbian Domesticity: An Interview with Catherine Opie,” Los Angeles
Forum for Architecture & Urban Design Newsletter, Late Spring, p. 2-3, ill.
Zellen, Jody, “Catherine Opie,” Art Papers, May-June, p. 31, ill.
Byrd, Cathy, “’90s to the Nines,” Art Papers, May-June, p. 12, ill.
“Art: Catherine Opie,” Village Voice, April 21
Schmerler, Sarah, “Catherine Opie, ‘Mini-malls’,” Time Out New York, April 16-23,
Issue no. 134, p. 48, ill.
Nittve, Lars, “Kunst in L.A.,” Merian, April, pp. 30-37, ill.
Glueck, Grace, “Catherine Opie: Mini malls,” The New York Times, April 3, 1998,p.B33
Kaltenecker, Siegfried, “Schwindelnde Manner?,” Springerin, March-May, pp. 46-7, ill
Hagoort, Erik, “Catherine Opie geeft homo’s waardig portret,” de Volkskrant, Zaterdag, February 21, p. 11, ill.
Verkerk, Corrie, “Gay Games meer dan spierkracht,” Het Parool, Dongerdag, February 19, pp. 1 & 4, ill.
Myers, Terry R., “Catherine Opie,” On Paper, January-February, pp. 41-42, ill.
“Deceits and Fantasies: The Garden in Contemporary Photography,” The American Federation of Arts: Exhibitions Program 1998, p. 39
“American Vernacular: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” The Contemporary,Spring, p. 3
1997    
Bonazzi, Francesco, “Trash,” Juliet, Trieste, Italy, December/January 1998
Gragg, Randy, “A letter from L.A.,” Sunday Oregonian, December 21, pp. 1 & 8, ill.
“Szene Los Angeles: Catherine Opie,” Art das Kunstmagazin, December, p. 36, ill.
Newman, Joe, “Hitting the High Roads: Catherine Opie,” Photo District News, December,p. 177, ill.
Nilsson, Hakan, “Art Review: Sunshine and Noir, Louisiana, Humlebaek, Denmark”,Flash Art, November/December, p. 74
Pioselli, Alessandra, “Trash: Quando I Rifiuti Diventano Arte,” Segno, Pescara, Italy,November/December
“Artworld: Awards”, Art in America, November, p. 144
Helfand, Glen, “Of heaven and earth: Shows by Robert Gober and Catherine Opie,”Bay Area Reporter, October 23, p. 45 & 54, ill.
Gottschalk, Karl-Peter, “Catherine Opie: Masterful”, blue, October, p. 6, ill.
Knight, Christopher, “Art review: Catherine Opie”, Los Angeles Times, pp. 49-50, ill.
Lewis, Judith, “Concrete Love: Photographer Catherine Opie Brings L.A. to MoCA,” LA Weekly,October 3-9, 1997,pp. 22-27, ill.
Larsen, Larrs Bang, “Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997,” Frieze, September/October, p. 93 “Wizards, Wonders, and Wonks,” color illustrations photographed by Catherine Opie,
The New York Times Magazine, September 28, 1997.
“Catherine Opie: Focus Series Exhibition”, The Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art,Los Angeles, Fall, p. 11, ill.
Knight, Christopher, “Itinerary Fall Follies: Art,” Los Angeles Times, September 4
Nadotti, Maria, “E al posto del pennello spunto la spazzatura Viaggio nel tempo,all’alba del ‘trash’,” L’Unita, Rome, Italy, September 2
Vergine, Lea, “Trash: Noi gettiamo via le nostre tracce,k l’arte ne suggerisce il destino,” Vernissage, Torino, Italy, September
“Trash,” Rifiuti Solidi, Milan, Italy, July/August, p. 216
Huici, Fernando, “Delicias Del Microondas,” El Pais (Madrid), 12 July, 1997.
Nomblot, Javier Rubio, “Cruising L.A.: El Mundo Fuera De La Burbuja,” El Punto De Las Artes (Madrid), 4-17 July, 1997.
Parreno, Jose Maria, “Los Angeles, Punto De Encuentro,” ABC (Madrid), 4 July, 1997.
Mora, M., “El Arte Crudo De Seis ‘Chicos Malos’ de Los Angeles Se Muestra En Madrid,” El Pais (Madrid), 1 July, 1997.