Lisa Oppenheim
Born 1975 New York City, lives and works in New York City

Education

2003 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, participant in the Studio program.
2001 Master of Fine Arts, Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College, Department of Film/Video.
1998 Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Art and Semiotics concentration with Honors.

Awards, Residencies and Fellowships

2007 Recipient of 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.


Solo Exhibitions

2008
‘The Making of Americans’, STORE, London
2007
‘By Faith and Industry’, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
‘Comoving Observers’, Annex 14, Bern, Switzerland
2006
‘Story, Study, Print’, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
‘Lisa Oppenheim/Alexandra Leykauf’, FOAM (Photography Museum Amsterdam-two person show)
2005
‘Split Screen’, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
‘Parallax View’, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
‘Damaged’, De Nederelandsche Bank, Amsterdam

Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2008
'Quiet Politics', Zwirner and Wirth, New York
‘The Why of Life’, Swiss Institute, New York
‘Neutre Intense’, Centre d'Art Mira Phalaina/Maison Populaire Montreuil, France
‘Self Storage’, California College of the Arts, San Fransisco, CA
‘Gut of the Quantifier’, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, NY
'Group Show' The Royal Academy, London, UK (upcoming)

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

2006
‘Liverpool Biennial’, Liverpool, UK
‘Trifecta’, Bellwether Gallery, New York
‘For Hollis’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria and the Deutches Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
‘Re:Visie’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands
‘Brave New World’, Lizbeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
‘The Golden Hour’, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York
‘Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance)’, Bellwether Gallery, New York
‘The Netherlands Film Festival’, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2005
‘Cinematexas’, Austin, TX.
‘Lisa Oppenheim/ Andreas Zybach’, 51 Rorhbach Str. Gallery, Frankfurt
‘European Media Arts Festival’, Osnabrueck, Germany

2004
‘Botany’, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
‘Documentary Evidence, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
‘Open Ateliers’, Rijksakademie van bedeelnde kunsten, Amsterdam
‘World of Plants’, in collaboration with Rachel Urkowitz, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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

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

Publications / Reviews

Blindspot, ed. Taryn Simon, Killed Negatives Portfolio (upcoming in Decemeber 2008 edition)
ArtForum.com, New York Picks, Brian Sholis, March 2008
Neutre Intense/The Book, ed. Christophe Gallois, March 2008
The Journal, Killed Negatives, Emma Reeves, Spring 2008, p.130-143
ArtForum.com, Conventional Center, Brian Sholis, December 2007
Flash Art, Liverpool Biennial 2006, Anthony Downey, January-February 2007, p.64
Art Monthly, In Search of the Ideal Biennial, Pryle Behrman, November 2006, p.5-8
Liverpool Biennial Catalogue, Lisa Oppenheim , Gerardo Mosquera, Liverpool, UK.
Re:Visie Catalogue, Centraal Museum Utrecht 2006, p. 241 & 245
The Los Angeles Times, Around the Galleries, Christopher Knight, July 21, 2006
The Observer (UK), What a turn-up : A sprawling but often inspiring collection has emerged from the beleaguered biennial team in Liverpool, Killian Fox, September 24, 2006
Art Monthly, Lisa Oppenheim. Lisa Lefuevre, November 2006, p.14-15
New York Times, Dice Thrown, Roberta Smith, November 3, 2006
Time Out New York, Dice Thrown, Ann Doran, November 2-8, 2006
Frieze, Liverpool Biennial, Jonathon Griffin, November 2006
ArtForum, Top 10 Shows of 2006, Lisa Oppenheim and Alexandra Leykauf, Rita Kersting, December 2006, p. 298
ArtForum review, Lisa Oppenheim, Sven Lutticken, December 2005.
The Document as Idea, Sophie Berrebi Jonge Holland, December 2005,
ArtReview, Up and Coming Photographers of 2005, October 2005
ArtReview review, Lisa Oppenheim, Roos Gortzak, September 2005,
NRC Handelsblad, Old Words, New Images: Lisa Oppenheim at Galerie Juliette Jongma, Sandra Smallenburg, July 1, 2005.
Le Monde, Documentary Evidence, Cultural Supplement, May 13, 2004.
San Francisco Chronicle, Garden of Artistic Delights; At the intersection of nature and humans, art meets botany in a revelatory show at the Sonoma County Museum, October 22, 2004, George Snyder
Het Parool, Review of Open Studios, November 27, 2004, Kees Keijer
Botany Catalogue, Sonoma County Museum of Art, 2004 Sonoma, CA
Artforum.com, Critic’s Picks: Hard Times, Summer, 2003, Lori Waxman.