Catherine Opie is a 57 year old fine-art photographer. Though she now lives and works in Los Angeles, she is originally from Sandusky, Ohio. She is currently a photography professor at UCLA.Â
Opie studies the relationship between what is mainstream in society and what isn't. She mainly focuses on sexual identity, with emphasis in portrait, studio and landscape photography. Her work often represents both social and political commentary. She also tries to tell the story of the person she is photographing.
Her work has been published in:
The Photographers Gallery in London, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Cleveland Clinic, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
