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Julian Opie

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Julian Opie
1958 born in London, United Kingdom
Lives in London, United Kingdom
Education

1979-82 Goldsmith's School of Art, London
1978-79 Chealsea School of Art, London

Grants

2001 Music Week CADS, Best Illustration for "Best of Blur"
1995 Sargant Fellowship at The British School in Rome
1995-96 Residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché, France

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Mie Prefecture Museum, Japan Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
2007 "Walk on the Vltava", Museum Kampa, Prague
"This is Shahnoza", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
San Diego Museum of Art, US
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
"Julian Opie in the 90's", King's Lynn art centre, Norfolk
2006 CAC Malaga, Spain
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich; Schweiz
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Museum of Indianapolis, IN, USA
2005/06 Institut of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2005 Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Gallery MGM Oslo, Norway
Gallery Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2004 MCA Chicago
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York City, curated by Tom Eccles
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
„This is Kiera“, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (cat.)
“Sara, Brian & Monique”, Lisson Gallery, London (cat.)
2003 “Bijou gets undressed”, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Curated by Julian Heynen (cat.) Alan Cristea Gallery, London Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuernberg
2002 "Berlin classics", billboard project at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
MOMA project space, Billboard project in Manhattan and Queens
Rebecca Camhee, Athens, Greece
Warchester Museum, Warchester, USA
Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal

2001 Lisson Gallery, London
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Julian Opie, Recent Works, Junge Kunst e.V. Wolfsburg
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Outdoor Project for Autostadt/Stadt Wolfsburg, Germany
Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
1999 Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, Munich
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Bob van Oursow, Zurich
Primo Piano, Rome
Morrison & Judd, London
Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
Lux Gallery, Night time window projections
1997 Gallery Nova Sin, Prague
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"Sculpture", The Economist Plaza, London
Kunsthandlung H. Krobath & B. Wimmer, Vienna
1996 Gallery Analix Polla, Geneva
CCC Tours
Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Lisson Gallery, London
1995 "Paysages", Le Channel, Galerie de l'Aciennne Poste, Calais
Monica De Cardenas, Milan
1994 Kunstverein Hannover
Galerie Albrecht, Munich
"Imagine You Are Walking", Tramway, Glasgow
1993 Hayward Gallery, London<
1992 Wiener Secession, Vienna
Galerie Albrecht, Munich
1991 "Interni", Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
Primo Piano, Rome
Galerie Luis Campana, Frankfurt
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Jänner Galerie, Vienna
Kunsthalle Bern
1990-91 Lisson Gallery, London
1988 Lisson Gallery, London
1988 Galeria Montenegro, Madrid
"Skulpturen", Paul Maenz, Cologne
1986 Franco Toselli Gallery, Milan
"Recent Sculptures", Lisson Gallery, London
1985 Lisson Gallery, London
"Sculptures", Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1984-85 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne / to Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
1983 Lisson Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2008 Mie Prefecture Museum, Japan
"Regard_ Camera", Le Centre d'art contemporain de la ferme du buisson, France
"Outlines", Gimpel Fils, London
"Static: Contemporary Still Life and Portraiture", Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK
"Art is for the spirit: Works from the UBS art collection", Mori Art Museum, Japan
"Still / Motion", Mie Prefecture Museum, Japan
National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
2007 "Passion for Art", Sammlung Essl, Vienna
"Group Show II", Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
2006/07 "Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples, 1960 to Now, MOMA, NY
2006 "Face to Face (Portraits from Reynolds to Opie)", Sherborne House, UK
"Summer group show", Barbara Krakow gallery, Boston, MA
"Swing Space: Contemporary art in unexpected places", Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Canada
"Switched on", Alan Cristea, London
Shanghai Biennale, China
Auto Nom Kasel, Germany
2005/06 "Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists" touring: California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; ICA Boston, MA; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2004 „Funny Cuts“, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
„Portrait ohne Antlitz“, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
“Making Faces”, A National Gallery Touring Exhibition, Bristol Museums & Art Gallery and the Laing Art
Gallery, Newcastle (exh cat)
“Settlements”, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France. Curated by Lorand Hegyi (exh cat)
“Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“The Tower Block, vertical architecture”, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London
2003-04 “Saved”, 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London (exh cat)
2003 Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich
„Arcadia; the other life of video games“ Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
“Addiction”, curated by Christopher Kul-Want, 15 Micamber Street, London
„Bienal de Valencia“ Valencia, Spain
“No Art-No City – City Utopias in Contemporary Art.” Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany (cat.)
“Auto-nom”, das Automobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
2003 “Urban Codes – Coder/Décoder”, espace de l’art concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France, curated by Dominique Boudou (exh cat)
‘Trickfilm’, André Buchmann Galerie, Cologne
Robert Mc Lain Gallery, Houston, Texas. Curated by Christian Eckart
MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (exh cat)
2002-03 „Trespassing: Houses x Artists“ at the Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
MAK Centre for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles and MAK Vienna (exh cat)
„Total Überzogen“, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
“In portraiture irrelevance is ugliness”, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2002 “The Wall at WAM”, a mural commissioned for the Museum’s Renaissance Court, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
“Frenetic Interference”, a presentation of Memory/Cage editions art publishers, Zurich in the New Museum Store, New York. Window on Broadway by Julian Opie. Curated by Daniel Kurjacovic and Adrian Notz (exh cat)
“Bigger Splash”, The Whitechapel Art Gallery at London Art Fair
“Sculptura 02”, International Art in Public Spaces, Falkenberg, Sweden, Curated by Deborah Thompson.
“Remix”, Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool
“Out of Place”, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
“Shine”, the Lowry, The National Landmark Millennium Project for the Arts, Salford Quays, Salford (exh cat)
“Babel 2002” (“Race-Face, Langue-Dialogue”), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (exh cat)
New Acquisitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (exh cat)
“Shine”, Saint Pancras Chambers, London
“Blast to Freeze”, British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (exh cat)
The Galleries Show, the Royal Academy, London
“Projects 77”, billboards for the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Continuity/Departure”, Tokyo Museum of Art, curator Kazuo Nakabayashi (exh cat)
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2001-02 „Landscape“, curated by Ann Gallagher, The British Council. Exhibition tour opening at ACC Gallery, Weimar; travelling to House of Artists, Moscow; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg; Galleria Nazionale d‘Arte Moderna, Rome; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Bulgaria; Museu de Arte Contemporânes de Niterio, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte de São Paolo; Le Botanique, centre culturel de la communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles (exh cat)
„In Fumo“ (Art, Comics, Communication), Curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Galleria d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy (exh cat)
„Import“ Irish Museum of Modern Art
„Multiplication“, a British Council touring exhibition of Artist‘s Multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Muzeul de Arta in Brasov, Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu, Rumania; show travelling to Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia and Poland. (exh cat)
Tate Modern permanent collection
2001 "/arts", BBC websites, The Lux, London
"Art>Music", Rock Pop Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"sculpture in the CLose", Jesus College, Cambridge, GB
"Cause & Effect", org. by The British Council, touring Hamburg, Poland, Cuba
"Milano Europa 2000", PAC e Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2000-01 "Import", Irish Museum of Modern Art
2000 "New British Art 2000, Intelligence", Tate Britain, London
"Lost", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Kunst in der Stadt, Kunsthaus Bregenz
"hausschau - Das Haus in der Kunst", Deichtorhallen Hamburg
"zwischenzeitzwischenraum", Wolfsburg
"B4B", Baltic, Gateshead, England
"Give and Take", Jerwood Gallery, London
"Fact & Value", Chotlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lawrence Rubin/Greenberg/Van Doren, New York
"A Salon for the 21st Century", John Weber Gallery, New York
"landscape", cur. by Ann Gallagher, The British Council, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany, touring
Videoprogramm, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"Drive", The Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Ich ist etwas Anderes - Kunst am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts", Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen D ̧sseldorf, Germany
"Between Cinema and a Hard Place", Tate Modern, London
"Face à face", Kunstpanorama Luzern, Switzerland
"Pict", Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
ñVersion 2000î, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
"Wanted!" ,International Video Program, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
"Drawings & Photographs", Matthews Marks Gallery, New York
1999 "The Space here is everywhere", Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
"Schöpfung", Fresing Diözesanmuseum, Munich
"Eceteraѓ", Spaccx Gallery, Exeter
"Common People. British Art between phenomenon and reality", Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Guarena d'Alba, Italy
"In the midst of things", Bournville, Birmingham, UK
"Manufactures", The Paper Bag Factory, London
"Den Haag Sculptuur 1999", Den Haag, Netherlands
PANORAMA 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1998-99 "Thinking Aloud", South Bank Centre, touring exhibition, curated by Richard
1998 "Surfacing contemporary drawing", ICA, London
"London Now", Saks Project Art, Saks Fith Avenue, New York
Kimpo International sculpture Symposium, Sculpture Park, Korea
"Distinctive Elements", Contemporary British Art Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
"Every Day", 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
"Then and Now", Lisson Gallery, London
"Richtung Museumsquartier - Die Neue Sammlung (1)", Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
"Made in London", Expo 98, Museu de Electricidada, Lisbon
"Ciudadas Sin Nombre", La Sala de Exposiciones de Plaza de Espana, Madrid
"Le Voyage Immobile", Galerie Georges-Philipe & Natalie Vallois, Paris
1997-98 9th Indian Triennale at the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, travelling to
1997 "Dream of the Fisherman's Wife", Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Foundations for Fame", London Institute, London
"Culturgest", Caixa Geral de Depositos, Lisbon
"10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern", Bern
1997 "Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980's and 90's", Hayward
"printers inc.", Arts Council Collection exhibition, org. by National Touring Exhibitions from the Hayward Gallery
"Artists for Sarajevo", Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
"New Pieces", Julian Opie and Lilan von der Stokker, De Gouverneurstuin, Essen
"Follow Me, British Art on the Elbe", Art Studio, Deinste, Germany
"Art in the City", Kunsthaus Bregenz/Bregenz Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
"Need for Speed", Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
1996 "Elsewhere", Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
"On the Border", Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Abstract/Real", Museum Moderner Stiftung, Vienna
"City Limits", Staffordshire University, Staffordshire
"The East Wing Exhibition", Courtauld Institute of Art, London
1995 "Drawing the Line", South Bank Centre touring exhibition
"Micromegas", American Center, Paris
"British Art of the 1980 & 1990s - works from The WeltKunst Collection", The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1995 "Haus-Geburt", Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
"De Henry Moore ßs anos 90. Escultura brit·nica contempor·nea", Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, Spain (touring to Serralves Foundation, Oporto, Portugal
"Fuori Uso", Stabilimenti Ex-Aurum, Pescara
"British Abstract Art Part II: Sculpture", Flowers East, London
"Architecture(s)", CAPC Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
1994 "Spuren", Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
"New Voices: British Painting, A Selection 1989-92" (organized by the British
Council, travelled to Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid
"London Landscapes", Velan-Spazio 9 Arte, Turin, Italy
"Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection", S. Antonio di Susa, Turin
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
"Opera Prima", Trevi Flash Art Museum of Conemporary Art, Trevi/Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Italy
"The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the collection", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
"Cityscape", Monica de Cardenas, Milan
"Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus", Museum f ̧r Gestaltung Zurich
1993 "IN SITE - New British Sculpture", Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
"Machines for Peace", Ex-Yugoslavian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Serpentine Gallery, London
"Juxtaposition", Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
"Made Strange", Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Padiglione del Arte Contemporain, Milan
"Sculpture of the Eighties", Connaught Brown, London
1992-93 "Julian Opie, Juergen Albrecht, Tim Head, Yuriko Kurimoto", Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Verona
"Paolo Uccello: spazio e colore, tempo e materia, luce e forma. Battaglie
dell'Arte nel XX secolo", La Salerniana, Erice and Sale del Bramante, Rome
1992 "Like nothing else in Tennessee", Serpentine Gallery, London
"Whitechapel Open", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"New Voices, New Works for the British Council Collection", organized by the British Council, Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette, Brussels, tour
1991-92 "Confrontaciones 91", eight British and eight Spanish artists, Palacio
Velasquez, Madrid
1991 "Kunst Europa", Kunstverein Pforzheim, Germany, organized by the British Council
"Centenary Exhibition", Goldsmiths Gallery, London
"Objects for the Ideal Home, The legacy of Pop Art", Serpentine Gallery, London
"A view of London", K ̧nstlerhaus, Salzburg
Galleria Locus Solus, Genova
1990 "Filling in the Gap", Feigen Gallery, Chicago
"Objectives: The New Sculpture", Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport
Beach, California
"The British Art Show 1990",organized by The South Bank Centre, travelled to McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London)
"Biennale of Sydney", Sydney
1990 "Studies on Paper. Contemporary British Sculptors", Connaught Brown, London
"Bild und Wirklichkeit", Galerie Albrecht, Munich
"Sculpture", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
"Real Allegories", Lisson Gallery, London
"Work in progress. International Art in the Caja de Pensiones Foundation Collection", Caja de Pensiones Foundation, Madrid
1989 "Grenville Davey, Michael Craig Martin, Julian Opie", Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples
"Mediated Knot", Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
"Objet/Objectif", Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"Skulptur Teil II", Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich
"D+S Ausstellung", Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
1988-89 "Britannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture", Musée des Beaux Arts-André Malraux, Le Havre; Musée d'Evreux; Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen
"British Sculpture 1960-1988", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
1988 "Europa oggi/Europe Nnow", Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Les Annees 80: A la Surface de la Peinture", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint-Andre, Meymac
Wolff Gallery, New York
1987 "Terrae Motus", Grand Palais, Paris, organized by Fondazione Amelio, Naples
"British Art of the 1980s: 1987", Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, organized by the British Council, travelled to Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere as "Britannia. Paintings and Sculpture from the 1980s"
"Casting an eye", Cornerhouse, Machester
"Documenta 8", Kassel, Germany
1986-90 "Focus on te Image: Selection from the Rivendell Collection", organized by the Art Museum Association of America, travelled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix,
Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York; University Art
Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California; Laguna Gloria Art
Museum, Austin, Texas
1986 "Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985", Tate Gallery, London
"Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
"XVII Triennale de Milano", Milan
"De Sculptura - Eine Ausstellung der Wiener Festwochen 1986", Wiener Festwochen im Messepalast, Vienna
"Englische Bildhauer", Galerie Harald Behm, Hamburg
"Prospect 86. Eine internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
"Correspondentie Europa", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1985 "The British Art Show", organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
"XIIIøme Biennale de Paris", Grand Halle de la Vilette, Paris
"Still Life: A New Life", Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, travelled to Bradford Art Galleries, Bradford; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Carlis le Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on- Trent
"Anniottanta", organized by the Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Ravenna
"Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie and Richard Wentworth", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"Place Saint Lambert Investigations", Espace Nord, Liøge, Belgium
"Figure 1", Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
"Sculpture in a Garden", Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1984 "Artists for the 90s - 10 Galleries, 10 Artists", Paton Gallery, London
"Underwater", Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth
Sculpture Symposium 1984, St. Jean-Port, Quebec
"William Morris Today", Insitute of Contemporary Art, London
"Perspektive '84", Internationale Kunstmesse Basel
"Julian Opie and Lisa Milroy", Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy- en-Josas, France
"Metaphor and/or Symbol. A Perspective on Contemporary Art", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, travelled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1983 Charter House Square, London
"Young Blood", Riverside Studios, London
"Beelden/Sculpture 1983", Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam
"The Sculpture Show", Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain)
"8 Sculptors' Drawings", Air Gallery, London
"Making Sculpture", Tate Gallery, London
1982 Lisson Gallery, London
"Sculpture for a Garden" (Hounslow Sculpture II), Gunnersbury Park, London

Collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arts Council of Great Britain
Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Bruxelles
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Collection Essl, Vienna, Austria
Contemporary Art Society, Britain
The Tate Gallery, London
Neue Galerie - Sammlung Ludwig
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Wadsworh Atheneum
The British Council
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Prato
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, München
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Dresdner Bank, Berlin
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, France

Links

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