 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 143 |
| United Kingdom | 13 |
| Germany | 12 |
| Spain | 7 |
| Italy | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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Regen Projects, USA |
12 |
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Stephen Friedman Gallery, United Kingdom |
6 |
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SF Camerawork, USA |
4 |
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Walker Art Center, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1961 Born in Sandusky, OH (US)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 218
until 30.6.
Solo shows 36
2013
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| Catherine Opie - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2012
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| Catherine Opie - Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| 'Twelve Miles to the Horizon: Sunrises and Sunsets' - Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| High School Football - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Catherine Opie - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
2010
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| Catherine Opie - Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR |
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| Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Catherine Opie - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
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| Catherine Opie - high school football players - Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich |
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| Twelve Miles to the Horizon - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Girlfriends - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
2008
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| The Blue of Distance - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Catherine Opie: American Photographer - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Catherine Opie - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2007
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| Catherine Opie: 1999 and In and Around Home - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
2006
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| Catherine Opie - 1999 and In and Around the Home - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
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| Catherine Opie - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Catherine Opie - In and Around Home - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Catherine Opie - Chicago (American Cities) - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Catherine Opie - 2004 Larry Aldrich Award Exhibition - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
2004
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| Catherine Opie - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
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| Catherine Opie - Surfer Series - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Catherine Opie - Surfers - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2002
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| Catherine Opie - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
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| Catherine Opie - Ice Houses - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Catherine Opie - Skyways & Icehouses - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
2001
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| Catherine Opie - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
2000
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| currents 82: CATHERINE OPIE - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Catherine Opie - Ramapo College Art Galleries, Mahwah, NJ |
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| Altered States of America - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
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| Catherine Opie - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
1999
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| Catherine Opie - Photographs - Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, PA |
1997
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| Focus Series: Catherine Opie - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
1996
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| Catherine Opie - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
1994
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| Photographs from the Freeway Series - - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2010) |
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| Catherine Opie - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
Group shows 181
2013
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| More American Photographs - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
2012
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| Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Künstlerkinder von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso - Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden |
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| The Importance of Being Photographed - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Faulconer Gallery exhibits national - Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA |
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| Diferencia y Acuerdo - Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid |
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| More American Photographs - Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO |
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| An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Making sense: contemporary LA photo artists - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Hard Targets - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art - iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| 101 Collection: Route 3 - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2011
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| A Fine Line - Clifford Art Gallery - Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
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| En Obras. Coleção Teixeira De Freitas. - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| 2011 Benefit Auction Preview Exhibition - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| More American Photographs - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| 12th International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Lesbians Seeing Lesbians - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports - Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery - CFA Center for the Arts Wesleyan University, Connecticut |
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| Fuck Pretty - A Photography Exhibit - Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Distant Star - kurimanzutto, Mexico City |
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| Distant Star - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Tender is the Night - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
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| Unburied Treasures: A Fine Print Retrospective And Sale - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| THE LAST FIRST DECADE - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| California Continued - Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA |
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| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT |
2010
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| The City Proper - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Personal Identities/Contemporary Portraits - Sonoma University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA |
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| Ordinary Madness - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| LET’S TALK ABOUT HOUSES: When Art Speaks Architecture [Constructing, Deconstructing, Dwelling] / Floor 2, 2A and Sculptu - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| The 6th Seoul International Biennale of Media Art - Media City Seoul - International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul |
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| Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Facebook Show - Museum of New Art - MONA, Pontiac (MI) |
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| Ars Homo Erotica - The National Museum in Warsaw - The Gallery of 20th-century Polish Art, Warsaw |
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| On the Road - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sport - The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
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| Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Hard Targets - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
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| In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Colle - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
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| 101 Collection: Route 1 - R for Replicant - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2009 Benefit Auction Of Photographic Prints - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| Mama-San - The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA |
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| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports - Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD |
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| Trail Blazers in the 21st Century: Contemporary Prints and Photographs published by Exit Art - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| Pivot Points 3 - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| America - Beirut Art Center, Beirut |
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| An Autobiography Of The San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| Creating Identity: Portraits Today - 21c Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| "stages" - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin - Paris, Paris |
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| Bitch Is The New Black - Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA |
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| UNDERWATER - Western Bridge, Seattle, WA |
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| en todas as partes. políticas da diversidade sexual na arte - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights - GoMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports - Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
2008
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| Other People: Portraits From Grunwald And Hammer Collections - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Great Women Artists: Feminist Art From The Permanent Collection - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photograph - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
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| Listen Darling… The World is Yours - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| War as a Way of Life - 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Road Trip - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding - Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA |
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| Idle Youth - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| And Then Again . . . Printed Sets and Series, 1500-2007 - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Disarticulated Bodies/Destabilized Meanings - Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA |
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| Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| IN REPOSE - Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA |
2007
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| Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale 2007 - International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale, Incheon |
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| Global Feminism - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Refugees of Group Selection - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| People Take Pictures of Each Other - LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Passion Complex - Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits & Fantasies - Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE |
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| Darling, take Fountain - Kalfayan Galleries - Athen, Athens |
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| Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome |
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| Global Feminisms - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Pretty Baby - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006 - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA |
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| Family Pictures - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Hammer Contemporary Collection Part I - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| die Queerulanten innen/außen - Auto, Vienna |
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| INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| 2° Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunst s. 1960 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Sixth International Biennial Exhibition: Still Points of the Turning World - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Into me / Out of me - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| American Matrix: Contemporary Directions for the Harn Museum Collection Part II - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Work Zones - Three Decades of Contemporary Art - Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Last Time They Met - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Open-ended. The art of engagement - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Dark Places - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Skin is a Language - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
2005
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| Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| The New City. Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| 100 Artists See God - Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA |
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| Getting Emotional - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Personal Mythologies - Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2004
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| 15 year anniversary of Regen Projects. - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Print Show - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| 100 Artists See God - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| 26° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| In Focus - Themes in Photography - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| The Leopard’s Spots: Between Art, Performance and Club Culture - 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Just love me - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
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| Terrain Vague - Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Dass die Körper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit langem. - Generali Foundation, Vienna |
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| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby - Western Project, Culver City, CA |
2003
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| Terrain Vague - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| "Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Portraiture - Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Imperfect Innocence - The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Micropolitics. Art and Everyday Life (2001-1989) - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| Inaugural Exhibition - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Imperfect Innocence - Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
2002
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| "Die Wohltat der Kunst" - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Mixed Exhibition - Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England) |
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| Visions from America - Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Fusion Cuisine - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Parallels and Intersections - Art/Women/California, 1950-2000 - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| hautnah - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Photography Transformed - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| formal social - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
2001
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| The Beauty of Intimacy - Lens and Paper - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
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| AutoWerke - Fotocollectie BMW - De Hallen, Haarlem |
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| FE/MALE - Galerie Ariadne - Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel, Vienna |
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| Contact/Impact - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Ciudad abierta: Fotografía urbana 1950-2000 - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao |
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| Lovesexy: Identity and Desire in the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Before They Became Who They Are - Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| L.A. - Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
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| Veronica's Revenge - Contemporary Perspectives on Photography - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| AutoWerke - Europäische und amerikanische Fotografie 1998 - 2000 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Collector’s Choice - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Juvenilia - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| escape_space - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim |
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| DIÁLOGOS CON LA FOTOGRAFIA - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
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| L.A. - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed) |
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| Sites Around the City - Arts and Environment - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
1999
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| L.A. - - Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich (closed) |
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| The Modernist Document - Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC |
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| Drive-By - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
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| Melbourne International Biennial 1999 - Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Drive By - New Art from LA - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
1998
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| Lost Paradise - Galeria Presença - Porto, Porto |
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| Sharing our Culture - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC |
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| Babes - Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| From the Corner of the Eye - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Early Works - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| L.A. Times - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Veronica's Revenge - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
1997
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| Selected Works from the LINC Collection - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Elusive Paradise - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Donkey's Way and Piggybackback - Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto |
1996
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| The Lie of the Land - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Persona - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Defining the Nineties: Consensus Making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
1995
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| Fabrications - TPW - Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, ON |
1994
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| Transformers - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Out West and Back East - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
1993
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| Invitational 93: Toba Khedoori, Catherine Opie, Jennifer Pastor, Frances Stark - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
Belgium
| | Gladstone Gallery - Brussels, Brussels
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Italy
United Kingdom
| | Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Gladstone Gallery - New York - 21st Street, New York City, NY
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| | I.C. Editions, New York City, NY
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| | Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY
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Germany
| | Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
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Italy
| | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
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Portugal
| | Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
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| | Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
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| | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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| | Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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