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Catherine Opie was the recipient of the 2004 Larry Aldrich Award; her exhibition 1999 & In and Around Home was seen at the Museum in 2006.

In his foreword to this exhibition, Aldrich director Harry Philbrick wrote, ?Cathy Opie has created a body of work that defies easy categorization?her photographic series have portrayed American cities, surfers, the landscape, nudes, scarification and tattooing, even ice houses on frozen Minnesota lakes. A common thread is the construction of identity, whether through signs found in the landscape, signs of gender or sexual identity, shared rituals, or the aesthetic identity of the great American photographers whose work she quotes and refracts in her images.?

Born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961, Opie received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985 and her MFA from CalArts in 1988. She is the professor of photography at the UCLA art department. Opie?s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, and was seen in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Selected solo exhibitions: The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Photographers' Gallery, London; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Studio Guenzani, Milan; and Ginza Art Space, Tokyo.