JULIAN OPIE (b.1958, UK),
'Gary. Popstar.', 1998-99/2014
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Born in London in 1958, Julian Opie has been one of the most important exponents of contemporary British art over the last two decades. The artist achieved prominence in the mid-1980s as a representative of the 'New British Sculpture' with metal sculptures made of ordinary objects, the surfaces of which were painted.
His works expand the territory between painting and sculpture. For some years moving pictures have also been found in his work, generated frequently by means of LCD and LED signs. His objects have been acquired by important collections worldwide such as the Tate Modern, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kunsthaus Zurich.
Since he began his career as an artist, Opie has been concerned with expanding his artistic means of expression, and at an early stage he deliberately crossed the genre boundaries between painting and sculpture, for example by orienting himself to everyday items with his steel objects. In this context, elements from comic strips and Pop Art have become an important element in his work. He places great value on breaking away from the classic forms and genres of art and finding a different medium as well as another language and means of reading the artwork. Digital imaging technology has enabled Julian Opie to come much closer to this goal. Yet Opie’s motifs are firmly embedded in the traditions of pictorial history: portraits, nudes, half and full length pictures and landscapes. He uses his subjects flexibly, transforming them to a variety of media depending on the context. They are arranged in series that clearly follow traditional picture genres. The unmistakable pictorial language employed by the artist consists of reducing individual features of the human figure to a few lines or basic outlines to create portraits that resemble pictograms. In the same process, landscapes and architecture are also narrowed down to easily readable typologies. Opie’s artistic intention of releasing the picture from its medium and having it re-emerge as a wall painting, sculpture, lighting box, video film, vinyl picture or C-print is based on his willingness to experiment with various non-artistic media, and to sound out the wide variety of already existing or still to be invented technical possibilities for new pictorial discoveries.
Julian Opie lives and works in London.
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS:
2024
'Julian Opie', Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (4/20 - 6/1)
2023
'Julian Opie: JO.VR/GF15@MOSS', Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway (10/21/2023 - 3/6/2024)
'Julian Opie', Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
'Julian Opie: OP.VR@Kukje/F1963.Busan', Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea
'Julian Opie: In Busan', F1963 Museum, Busan, South Korea
'Julian Opie: OP.VR@LISSON/London', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie: OP.VR@Changsha', Mango Art Museum, Changsha, China
2022
'Julian Opie: Studio for Kids', National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International, Melbourne, Australia
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China
'Julian Opie: OP.VR', PARCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie: OP.VR/HEM@shenzhen', MIXC World, Shenzhen, China
'Julian Opie', Galerie Krobath, Vienna Contemporary, Kursalon Wien, Vienna, Austria
'Julian Opie Presents a Series of Sculptures at The St. Regis Venice', The St. Regis Venice, Italy
'Let's Meet at the Station' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland
'Julian Opie', Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
2021
'Julian Opie: Collected Works/Works Collected', Newlands House Gallery, West Sussex, UK
'Julian Opie', Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
'Julian Opie', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
'Julian Opie', Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Pitzhanger Manor & Manor, London, UK
'Julian Opie: Recent Works and Flock Paintings', De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
'Julian Opie: Sculptures', City of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2020
'Julian Opie', Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
'Julian Opie: New Works', Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
2019
'Julian Opie', Krobath, Vienna, Austria
'Julian Opie', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie', Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
2018
'Julian Opie', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
'Julian Opie: Teresa', Altice Forum Braga, Braga, Portugal
'Julian Opie', Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
'Julian Opie: Beach Walkers', Hamilton Princess Hotel, Bermuda
'Julian Opie: Tina', Tokyo Inn, Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie: New Sculptures, Prints and Animations', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie in Busan', F1963, Busan, South Korea
2017
'Julian Opie', Fosun Foundation, Bund Financial Center, Shanghai, China
2016
'Julian Opie', Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie', Art Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
'Julian Opie', Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
'Julian Opie', Krobath, Vienna, Austria
2015
'Julian Opie', Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
'Julian Opie: Winter', British Council, New Delhi, India
'Julian Opie', Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
'Julian Opie', Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
'Julian Opie', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
2014
'Julian Opie: Street Portraits', SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie', Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), Krakow, Poland
'Julian Opie Collected Works', Holburne Museum, Bath, UK and Bowes Museum, Durham, UK
2012
'Julian Opie', Sakshi Gallery, Delhi, India
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy
2011
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Julian Opie: Portraits', Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nürnberg, Germany
'Julian Opie', Krobath Gallery, Berlin, Germany
'Julian Opie: Editions 1984 - 2011', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
'British Sculpture: A View Through the 20th Century' (group exhibition), Royal Academy, London, UK
2010
'Julian Opie', Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
'Julian Opie: Print Retrospective', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Mário Sequeira Gallery, Brago, Portugal
'Julian Opie', Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
'Julian Opie', Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
'Julian Opie', SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie: Dancing in Kivik', Kivik Art Center, Österlen, Sweden
'Julian Opie', Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
'Julian Opie', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Julian Opie: al Portico d'Ottavia', Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
'Julian Opie', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
'Julian Opie: Ann Dancing', National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
2008
'Julian Opie: Shahnoza in Three Parts', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
'Singapore Biennale' (group exhibition), Singapore
'Still Motion' (group exhibition), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie', Contemporary Art Center at Art Tower Mito (ATM), Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie: Recent Work', Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art (MAK), Vienna, Austria
'Still Motion' (group exhibition), Osaka Museum, Osaka, Japan
'Still Motion' (group exhibition), Mie Prefecture Art Museum, Tsu City, Japan
'Julian Opie: Walking Down O'Connell Street', Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
2007
'Julian Opie', Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
'Animated Painting' (group exhibition & outdoor project), San Diego Museum of Art, CA
'Sign Language' (group exhibition), Des Moines Arts Center, IA
'Julian Opie: This is Shahnoza', Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
'Julian Opie: Walking on the Vltava', Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
'Julian Opie in the 90's', King's Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk, UK
2006
'Julian Opie: Showtime', Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) de Málaga, Spain
'Julian Opie: This is Shahnoza', Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
'Julian Opie', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
'Julian Opie: Sara dancing (sparkly top)', Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT
'Julian Opie: Wallworks', Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Canada
'Julian Opie: Signs', Public Project, Arts Council of Indianapolis, IN
'Julian Opie', Public Project, Mori Building, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan
2005
'Julian Opie', Mário Sequeira Gallery, Parada de Tibães, Portugal
'Suzanne walking' and 'Julian walking', Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Eighth Annual ICA/Vita Brevis Outdoor City Project
'Painting the Edge: Michael Craig-Martin, Julian Opie, Lisa Ruyter and Paul Morrison' (group exhibition), Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
'Julian Opie: Films and Paintings', SCAI The Bathhouse / Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc., Tokyo, Japan
'Julian Opie', Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
'Julian Opie', Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
2004
'Julian Opie: New Work', Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
'Julian Opie: Animals, Buildings, Cars, and People', Outdoor installation for the Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, NY
'Julian Opie', Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
'Julian Opie', Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
'Julian Opie: Landscapes', Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
'Julian Opie: Sara, Bryan & Monique', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2003
'Julian Opie: We swam amongst the fishes', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
'Julian Opie: Bijou gets undressed', K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
'Einladung Julian Opie', Neues Museum Nuremberg, Germany
'Julian Opie', Visual Arts at Sadlers Wells, London, UK
'Julian Opie', General Assembly curated installation for Selfridges, Manchester, UK
2002
'Wall at WAM: Julian Opie', Worcester Art Museum, MA
'Julian Opie', Mário Sequeira Gallery, Parada de Tibães, Portugal
'Julian Opie', Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2001
'Julian Opie', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
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