Catherine Opie

Born: Sandusky, OH, 1961
Lives and works in Los Angeles

2000–2001 Professor of Fine Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001–Present Professor of Fine Art University of California, Los Angeles

Education

1988
MFA CalArts

1985
BFA San Francisco Art Institute

One-Person Exhibitions (selected)

2008
Guggenheim Museum, New York

2006
Catherine Opie: 1999 & In and Around Home, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; travelling to the Orange County Museum of Art, California, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, OH, and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities), MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL

2004
Surfers, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Surfers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Surfers, Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York

2002
Skyways and Icehouses, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Icehouses, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Ice Houses, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

2001
Wall Street, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
1999, Galleria Presenca, Porto, Portugal

2000
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
The Photographers Gallery, London
Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York
New Polaroids, Thread Waxing Space, NY
Susan Inglett, New York
Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas
Works 1991-97, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC
Domestic, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina

1999
Catherine Opie (survey show), Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
Domestic, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

1998
Mini-Malls, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY

1997
L. A. Freeways and Mini-Malls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits and Houses, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Houses and Landscapes, The Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan

1996
L.A. Houses and Landscapes, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Houses and L. A. Freeways, Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
L. A. Freeways, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995
Portraits and Freeways, Richard Foncke Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
Portraits, Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Portraits, Parco, Tokyo, Japan
Portraits, Enterprise, New York, NY

1994
L. A. Freeways, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portraits, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portraits, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

1991
Being and Having, 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1990
A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

1989
Master Plan, United States Post Office, Valencia, CA
Master Plan, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2007
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. 45 Years of Art & Feminism, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain
Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

2006
Into Me/Out of Me, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, PA
The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Still Points of the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennial, curated by Klaus Ottmann, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Eighth Square: Gener, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005
The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, curated by Francesco Bonami, MCA, Chicago, IL and travelling to the Hayward Gallery, London
Contemporary Photography and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies, organised by the American Federation of Arts and travelling to The Middlebury College Museum of
Art, Middlebury, VT; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; TBD; Hudson River Museum Yonkers, NY; Delaware Museum of Art, and Wilmington, DE
Family Pictures, Contemporary Photography, and Video from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland

2004
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Intimates, Angles, Los Angeles, CA
Art, Lies and Videotape, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Still Life, Still Here, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA,
Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie Graz and Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
Site Specific, curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Portraiture, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, L.A.
Micropolitics I. Art and Everyday Life: 2001–1989, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain
Elegy: Contemporary Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CA
Curated by Katharine Smith-Warren
Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Phantom of Pleasure, Neue galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Just Love Me: Post Feminist Art of 1990s from Goetz Collection, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Germany, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Germany
5 Year < Retro, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.

2002
Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Die Wohltat Der Kunst - Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden, Baden
Photographic Impulse: Highlights from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
En Route, Serpentine Gallery, London, September (catalogue)
The Self, curated by Noriko Fuku, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Ghost Image, Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, USA
Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000, curated by Sylvia Wolf, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hautnah, Die Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germany
Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, (curated by Katerina Gregos), (catalogue)

2000
EXTRAordinary, Madison Art Centre, Madison, WI
fe/male, Plakat-Intervention U-Bahnstation, Braunschweiggasse, Vienna, Austria
The “O” Portfolio, Domestic Furniture, Los Angeles, CA
The Great Wide Open, The Huntington, San Marino, CA
Open City Street Photographs Since 1950, Musuem of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, (co-curators Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson); touring to The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Slide Area, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belguim, (curated by Terry R. Myers)
Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY, (curated by Norman Dubrow)
Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Ansel Adams Centre, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Uniforme/Ordine e Disordine, Pitti Images Florence, Italy; touring to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, NY(curated by Francesco Bonami),

2000
Galeries Sabine Knust and Philomene Magers, München, Germany; Los Angeles
Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (catalogue)
The Modernist Document: Moyra Davey, Stan Douglas, Charles Gagnon, Petra Mueller, Catherine Opie, Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
The Signs of Life, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne International Biennial, University of Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
Drive-By: New Art from L.A., South London Gallery, London,
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Edge of Night: Urban Landscape, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Photography by Catherine Opie, Richard Rothman and Tokihiro Sato, (catalogue)
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT

1999
Babes: Lutz Bacher, Mark Bennett, David Levinthal, Catherine Opie, Mel Ramos, Andy Warhol, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Vernacular, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, L.A., CA
Paintings from the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)

1998
Kunst. Arbeit, Sudwestdeutsche Landesbank Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Cruising L. A.: Paul McCarthy, Martin Kersels, Catherine Opie, Lari Pittman, Jason Rhoades, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Nirvana: Capitalism and the Consumed Image, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960-1997, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Centre, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Love’s Body, Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, (catalogue)
Lost Paradise: Catherine Opie, Ellen Cantor, Joachim Koester, Presenca Gallery, Portugal
Babes, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary, Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stanford, CT
L.A. Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Rebauddengo Sandretto Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Torino, Italy
Out Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists, UC Santa Cruz

1997
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO (catalogue)
Travelling show: The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, Wichita Art Museum, Armand Hammer Museum, L.A.
1975-Now, Making Pictures: Women and Photography, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Composite Persona, Fullerton Museum Centre, Fullerton, CA, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Fabrications: Hamish Buchanan, Catherine Opie, David Rasmus, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; (catalogue)
Inbetweener: Jeanne Dunning, Yasumasa I Morimura, Catherine Opie, Inez van Lamsweerde, Collier Schorr, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea, Italy
A Hotbed of Advanced Art: Four Decades of Visual Arts at UCI, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles, Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.
Trash, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Selections from Audrey & Sidney Irmas Collection of Photographic Self-Portraits: 1940-1996, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles: Metropolis USA, Dansk Art Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Louisana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Spheres of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Veronica’s Revenge: Selections from the Lambert Art Collection,Centre dí Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Travestismo e Identidad en el Arte, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, El Rostro Velado (catalogue)

1996
The Lie of the Land, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (brochure)
Evident: Joseph Bartscherer, Martin Cole, Stefan Gec, Axel Hutte,
Catherine Opie, James Welling, The Photographers' Gallery, London
Go West: Landscapes, Reicher Gallery, Baret College, Lake Forest, IL
Face and Figure: Contemporary Art in the Permanent Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Inbetweener, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Art at the End of the 20th Century, National Gallery, Athens, Greece
Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (catalogue)
Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975-96, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Man’s World: Selections from the Permanent Collection
California Focus, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Gender, fucked, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle (catalogue)
What I Did on My Summer Vacation, White Columns, New York, NY
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Tableaux de la Vie Moderne / Pictures of Modern Life, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France (catalogue)
Desire, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Piggybackback, Galerie Bela Jarzyk, Cologne, Gemany
Passage ‡ L'Acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Defining the Nineties: Consensus-Making in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Campo 95, Konstmuseet, Malmo, Sweden
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, U. C. L. A. at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Black and Blue, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; touring to Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia (12 April-1 June), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (June 21-9 Sept.), Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery of the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (4 Nov.-28 Nov.), (catalogue)
Recent Aquisitions, 1992-1996, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona, Tucson

1995
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (10 Dec.-26 Feb. 1996); Site, Santa Fe, NM 1996 (13 Sept. - 2 Nov.)
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia , Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (catalogue)
Portraits Janice Guy, New York, NY
Images of Masculinity, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

1995
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
In a Different Light, University Art Museum at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)
Fabrications: Hamish Buchanan, Catherine Opie, David Rasmus, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Canada
Pervert, University of California, Irvine, CA
Campo, Corderie, Venice, Italy
P. L. A. N.: Photography Los Angeles Now Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
La Belle et La Be’te: Un Choix de Jeunes Artistes Américains, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (catalogue)
Féminin-Masculin: The Sex of Art, Presence, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1994
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Little House on the Prairie, Marc Jancou Gallery, London
Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Selections from the Permanent Collection of Photography, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia; touring exhibition,
Oh boy, it's a girl (titled from a 1970's William Wegman drawing), Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany; touring to Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria, (catalogue)
Faculty/Staff: New Work, University of California, Irvine, CA
Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Out West and Back East: New Work in Los Angeles and New York Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

1993
Invitational 93, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Regarding Masculinity, Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Back Talk, Women's Voices in the 90's, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Queerly Defined, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA,
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

1992
Wasteland, Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam III, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Breaking Barriers, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

1991
Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Someone or Somebody, Meyers / Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990
All But the Obvious, L. A. C. E., Los Angeles, CA

1989
New Landscapes, Angel Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Young California Artists, Southcoast Museum, Costa Mesa, CA

1988
Los Angeles Art Fair, L. A. Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Five Women Artists, L. A. C. E., Los Angeles, CA

1987
Guggenheim Gallery, Orange County, CA

1985
Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography (selected)

2006
“Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities)”, MoCA, Chicago (catalogue)
“Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography”, Phaidon Press

2005
“Artists Salute Artpace”, Artpace San Antonio, Benefit Auction at Christie’s, New York (catalogue)

2004
Laws, Liz, ‘FIND A WORLD OF FANTASY & DESIRE AT THE TOWNER ART GALLERY’, www.24hourmuseum.org.uk, January 1

2003
“Art and Photography”, Phaidon, London, pg.124
“Micropolitics: Art and Everyday Life 2001-1968”, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, pp.284-289
“Cindy Sherman”, Serpentine Gallery, London, pg.18
“Just Love Me: Post Feminist Art of 1990s from Goetz Collection, Sammlung”, Goetz, Munich
“Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective”, Peabody Essex, Museum, Salem. MA, pg.37
“Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance”, Tate, Liverpool
“Subjective Realities: Works from the Refco Collections of Contemporary
Photography”, essay by Dave Hickey, Refco Group, Ltd., New York, NY,
2003, pp.182-83
Tu, Hung Q., “Structures of Feeling”, Krupskaya, San Francisco

2002
“Catherine Opie: Skyways + Icehouses”, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, (essay by Douglas Fogle)
Holt, Henry, “The Spirit of Family”, pp.28,72
Lucie-Smith, Edward, “Art Tomorrow”, Finest S.A/ Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, pg.199
“Fusion Cuisine”, 2002, published by Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, pp.136-137
“Die Wohltat der Kunst, Post/Feministrische Positionen der neunziger Jahre
aus der Sammlung Goetz”, Sammlung Goetz and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, pp.126-131
“Hautnah: Die Sammlung Goetz”, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, pp.66-69
Gonzalez, Jennifer, “Landing in California”, Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000, University of California Press in association with the San Jose Museum of Art, pp.219-240
Phillips, Sandra S., “Women Artists in California and Their Engagement with Photography”, Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000, pp.241-256
Wolf, Sylvia, “Visions from America Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, essay by Andy Grundberg, published by the Whitney Museum of American Art
“American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson, pp.231
“PhotoEspana 2002”, published in conjunction with the exhibit "The Self", curated by Noriko Fuku, and the International Festival of Photography, Madrid, Spain, “formal social”, published in conjunction with the exhibit "formal social", curated by Carina Plath, Westfalischer Kunstverein

2001
“Open City: Street Photographs since 1950”, Museum of
Modern Art Oxford, pg.18, pp.168-173
“Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography”, The
New Press, New York
Watts, Jennifer A. Watts and Claudia Bohn-Spector, eds. “The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West”, Merill Publishing, London, pp.104-107
Wang, Michael, "Catherine Opie", The Harvard Photography Journal 2001, pp.4-11

2000
Cantz, Hatje, “Auto Werke”, with support by BMW Financial Services North America, (essay by Joshua Decter), pp.5-6
“Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity”, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, pg.16, pp.252-253
“Brochure, Currents 82: Catherine Opie”, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
“Magnetic North”, Walker Art Center, and Video Pool Inc., pg.50
“Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California”,
published by The Friends of Photography, 2000, pg.26, ill.
Sites Around the City: Art and Environment, published by Arizona State University Fine Arts, pp.40, ill.
Lesbian Art in America, edited by Harmony Hammond, Rizzoli, New York, pp.150-152, ills., cover
“Catherine Opie: In between here and there”, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, ills. (essay by Rochelle Steiner)
“Catherine Opie”, The Photographer's Gallery, London, (essays by Kate Bush, Joshua Decter & Russell Ferguson)
Zona F, edited by Jose Miguel G. Cortes, Espai d' Art Contemporani
de Castello, Castello, Spain
“Rearview Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities”, edited by Kevin J. Boyle, published by UCR California Museum of Photography, California
“Escape-Space”, edited by Ursula Frohn & Christian Katti, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Germany, pp.106-113, ills.
“Drive power>progress>desire”, edited by Geregory Burke & Hannah Scott, essays by Giovanni Intra, published by Govett-Brewster Publications, New Zealand, 2000, pg.46, ill.

1999
“The Modernist Document/Le Document Moderniste”, edited by Nancy Shaw, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University and The Canada Council for the Arts
Bauer, Silvia, "Beyond the Gender Principle", Differences Within Gender Studies, Erich Schmidt Verlag, pp.86-105, ill.

1998
Borzello, Frances, “Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits”, Thames and Hudson, London
O’Dell, Kathy, “Contract with the Skin: Masochism Performance Art and the 1970s”, University of Minnesota press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp.80, 83 and 109n36, ill.
Edwards, Susan H. “The Edge of Night: Urban Landscape Photography”, exhibition catalogue, Hunter College
Janus, Elizabeth and Lambert, Marion, “Veronica’s Revenge; Contemporary Perspectives on Photography”, exhib. catalogue LAC, Switzerland, Scalo, ill.
Melo, Alexandre, “Lost Paradise: Catherine Opie, Joachim Koester, Ellen Cantor”, exhibition catalogue, Presenca Galeria, Porto Portugal, ill.
Van Nieuwenhuyzen, M, Coelewij, Leontine and Visser, Hripsime, “From the Corner of the Eye”, exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ill.
Bonami, Francesco, “L.A. Times: Arte da Los Angeles nella Collezione Re Rebaudengo Sandretto”, exhib. catalogue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per L’Arte, Torino, Italy, ill.
Miller, Susan, “New Langton Arts, New Langton Arts”, pp.155, ill. cover ill.
“Artenergie: Art in Jeans”, Edizioni Charta, Milano, pp.104-5, ill.
“Current exhibition: Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997”, exhibition catalogue, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Cultural Programs Calendar, Fall, ill. unsigned.
“Deceits and Fantasies: The Garden in Contemporary Photography”, exhibition catalogue, The American Federation of Arts: Exhibitions Program 1998, pg.39
“American Vernacular: Selections from the Permanent Collection”, exhibition catalogue, the Contemporary, Spring, pg.3

1997
Smith, Elizabeth A.T. and Dartnall, Colette, “Catherine Opie”, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, ill.
Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia, ”Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century”, exhibition catalogue
Lippard, Lucy, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Decter, Joshua, “a/drift”, exhibition catalogue, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, ill.
Sobel, Dean, “Identity Crisis; Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century”, exhibition Catalogue, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, ill.
Torres, Jose A. Perdice, “Cruising L.A.”, exhibition catalogue, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, ill.
Nittve, Lars and Crenzien, Helle, “Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997”, exhibition catalogue, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, ill.
Blessing, Jennifer and the Guggenheim, “Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose; Gender Performance in Photography”, exhib. catalogue, New York, NY, ill. Abrams, Harry N, Inc., New York, NY unsigned
“American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity”, exhibition catalogue, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Charta, Milano, Italy
“Catherine Opie: Focus Series Exhibition”, The Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fall, pg.11, ill.

1996
Lyttelton, Celia, “The Now Art Book”, published by Shiseido and Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd., Tokyo
Opie, Catherine, “Dyke Deck by Cathy Opie”, Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles (deck of playing cards with insert and portraits by Catherine Opie)
Wakefield, Neville, “Fashion Now! Fashion Photography of the Nineties”, Scalo Publishers: Nickerson, Camilla; New York, NY
Snyder, Jill, “In the Flesh”, exhibition catalogue, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, pg.22, ill.
Chadwick, Whitney, “Women, Art, and Society”, revised and expanded second edition, published by Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, pg.391, 396, ill.
Clearwater, Bonnie, “Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York”, exhibition catalogue Miami, and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, ill.
Drucker, Johanna, “Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, pg.19, ill.
Jones, Amelia, “Sexual Politics”, exhibition catalogue, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, pg.35, pp.224-225, 261, ill. “Persona”, exhib. catalogue, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and Kunsthalle Basel, May, ill.
Berger, Maurice, Wallis, Brian and Watson, Simon, “Constructing Masculinity”, Routledge, NY, pg.43, ill.

1995
Gumpert, Lynn, “La Belle et La BÍte”, MusÈe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: Paris, France (exhibition catalogue in French and English)
Fullerton, Kim, “Fabrications”, exhibition catalogue, Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Toronto, Canada, ill.
Lord, Catherine, “Pervert”, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, exhibition catalogue, ill.
“Feminin Masculin: le sexe dans líart”, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Gallimard/Electra, Paris, ill.
Kertess, Klaus, “1995 Biennal Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, New York, ill.
Blake, Nayland, “In a Different Light”, exhibition catalogue, City Lights Books, San Francisco, Rinder, Lawrence, CA; ill.
Scholder, Amy and Neumaier, Diane, “Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies”, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, ill.

1994
Gamblin, Noriko, “Love In Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A.”, exhibition catalogue, Long Beach Museum, ill.
Engberg, Juliana, “Persona Cognita”, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, (texts by Deb Verhoeven, Linda Williams, Margaret Morgan), ill.
Rugoff, Ralph, “Transformers”, exhibition catalogue, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, ill.
Wege, Astrid, “Oh boy, it’s a girl! Feminismen in der Kunst”, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein, Munchen, (essay "Verstreute Notizen" by Judith fischer/Uta Laib), pp.80-86, ill.

1993
Lippard, Lucy, “Back Talk: Women’s Voices in the 90s”, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara, California

1992
Vroege, Bas, “Wasteland”, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

1991
Meyer, Richard, “Situation”, exhibition catalogue, Exceeding the Frame: recent production by lesbian and gay artists.

Periodicals (selected)

2006
Myers, Terry R. “In And Around Home”, Art Review: Issue 3, September, pg.142
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Interview”, Artkrush, no.36, July 12
Burgaleta Larson, Maria, “Catherine Opie”, Artnews, June, pg.149
Lacanian Ink, New York, NY, no.27, cover, pp.

2000
Cotter, Holland, “Through Women’s Eyes, Finally”, The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, 16 May, pp.92-96 (special issue: The Shadow Story of the Millennium: Women)
Picker, Deborah, “Tall Tales: Catherine Opie Looks on Lesbian Domesticity”, L.A. Weekly, 14-20 May, pg.35
Pagel, David, “A New View of Life on the Home Front”, Los Angeles Times, 23 April, pg.F28 (review)
Aletti, Vince, Out, Lesbian Domestics, April, pg.16, pp.32-33 (preview)
Rowlands, Penelope, “Previews: Catherine Opie”, Art & Auction, 15 April, pg.75, ill. (preview)
Rawsthorn, Alice, “L. A. Story”, British Vogue, April, pp.88-93, ills. (review: South London)
Zeiger, Mimi, ”Catherine Opie”, Loud Paper, Spring, pp.14-17, (profile)

1999
Sante, Luc, and Steiner, Amy, “The Secret of the Man Made World”, Metropolis, April, pp.88-91 (photo suite by Catherine Opie)

1998
Muchnic, Suzanne, “L.A. Story”, ARTnews, September, pp.150-153, ills.
Zeiger, Mimi, “Casualfornia/Catherine Opie”, Loud Paper, vol.2, issue 3, pp.14-17, ill. (cover)
Yablonsky, Linda, “Berlin Sprawl”, Time Out New York, November 5-12, pg.74
Pinto, Antonip Cerveira, “A Suspensao da Utopia”, A Semana (Portugal), October 9, Exposicoes, pg.11, ill.
Faria, Oscar, “Dialogo Entre o Ceu e o Inferno”, Publico (Portugal), October 9, Artes & Ocios, pg.19, ill.
Zimmer, William, “Landscape, the Site, The Meaning of Place”, The New York Times, August 9, pg.12 CT
Rian, Jeff, ”Sunshine & Noir and L.A. Times”, Flash Art, October, pp.61-67, ill.
Ollman, Leah, “A Multi-Sided Look at ‘Lone Woman’”, The Los Angeles Times, October 2, pg.F29
Ise, Claudine, “Babes’ Aims to Demystify Expectations of Women”, The Los Angeles Times, July 24, pg.F33
“Catherine Opie”, BT Magazine, September, pp.56-57, pg.85, ill.
Rickels, Laurence A, “Already Given at the Office: On Techno Feminism, I”, Parallax, issue 5, September
Glueck, Grace, “Catherine Opie: Mini malls”, The New York Times, April 3, pg.B33
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Acquisition and Merger”, ARTnews, Summer, pg.74
Allen, Rachel, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture & Urban Design Newsletter, Late Spring, pp.2-3, ill.
Village Voice, “Art: Catherine Opie”, April 21
Schmerler, Sarah, “Catherine Opie, Mini-malls”, Time Out New York, April 16-23, no.134, pg.48, ill.
Nittve, Lars, Merian, Kunst L.A., pp.30-7, ill.
Kaltenecker, Siegfried, “Schwindelnde Manner?”, Springerin, March-May, pp.46-7, ill.
Hagoort, Erik de Volkskrant, “Catherine Opie geeft homo’s waardig portret”, Zaterdag February 21, pg.11, ill.
Verkerk, Corrie, “Gay Games meer dan spierkracht”, Het Parool, February 19, pp.1-4, ill.
Zellen, Jody, “Catherine Opie”, Art Papers, May-June, pg.30 (review: M.o.C.A.)
multiple quotes, “'90's to the Nines: Short Reports on New Trends”, Art Papers, May-June, pp.12-17 (illustration)
Opie, Catherine, “Dyke Deck”, Borderlines, no.46, pp.32-33 (illustration)
Myers, Terry R, “Catherine Opie”, On Paper, Jan-Feb, pp.41-42 (review: M.o.C.A.)

1997
Goff, Robert, Forbes, Culture comes to Hollywood, 1 December, pp.344-345 (editorial)
Gragg, Randy, “A Letter from L.A.”, Sunday Oregonian, December 21, pp. 1-8, ill.
Art-Das Kunstmagazin (Hamburg), “Momentaufnahme: Szene Los Angeles”, December, pp.30-41 (editorial)
Newman, Joe, “Hitting the High Roads: Catherine Opie”, December, Photo District News, pg.177, ill.
Bonazzi, Juliet Francesco, Trash, Trieste, Italy, Dec/Jan
Nilsson, Hakan, “Art Review: Sunshine and Noir”, Flash Art, Louisiana, Humlebaek, Denmark, Nov/Dec, pg.74
Helfand, Glen, “Of heaven and earth: Shows by Robert Gober and Catherine Opie”, Bay Area Reporter, October 23, pg.45, 54, ill.
Gottschalk, Karl-Peter, “Catherine Opie: Masterful”, blue, October, pg.6, ill.
“Artworlds: Awards”, Art in America, November, pg.144
Pioselli, Alessandra, “Trash: Quando I Rifiuti Diventano Arte”, Segno, Pescara, Italy, Nov/Dec
“Wizards, Wonders, and Wonks”, The New York Times Magazine, colour illustrations photographed by Catherine Opie, September 28
Knight, Christopher, “Edge-Cities, Minus the Edge”, Los Angeles Times-Calendar, October 9 (review: M.o.C.A.)
Lewis, Judith, “Concrete Love: Photographer Catherine Opie brings L.A. to M.o.C.A.”, (also titled: “Freeways, Mini-malls and Leather Dykes, Catherine Opie Loves L.A.”, L. A. Weekly, October 3-9, pp.22-27, cover (feature/review: M.o.C.A.)
Knight, Christopher, “Itinerary Fall Follies: Art”, Los Angeles Times, September 4
Nadotti, Maria, “E al posto del pennello spunto la spazzatura Viaggio nel tempo, all'alba del ìtrashî”, L'Unita, Rome, Italy, September
Vergine, Lea, “Trash: Noi gettiamo via le nostre tracce,k l'arte ne suggerisce il destino”, Vernissage, Torino, Italy, September
Huici, Fernando, “Delicias Del Microondas”, El Pais, Madrid, Spain, July 12
Nomblot, Javier Rubio, “Cruising L.A.: el mundo fuera de la burbuja”, El Punto de Las Artes (Madrid), 4-17 July (review: Gal. Soledad Lorenzo)
Parreno, Jose Maria, “Los Angeles, Punto de Encuentro”, ABC (Madrid), July 4 (review: Gal. Soledad Lorenzo)
Mora, M. El Pais, “El atre crudo de seis chicos malos' de Los Angeles se muestra en Madrid”, (Madrid), 1 July (review: Gal. Soledad Lorenzo)
Rifiuti, Solidi, Trash, Milan, Italy, July/August, pg.216
Larsen, Larrs Bang, “Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997”, Frieze, Sep/Oct, pg.93
Jernigan, Adam, “Fragmented Bodyscapes: An Excursion in the Photography of Catherine Opie”, Masque, vol.1, issue 2, pp.43-49, ill.
Mizoguchi, Akiko, “Catherine Opie: Sexuality and Gender”, BT Magazine, June, pp.18-27, ill.
Barnatan, Marcos R. El Mundo (Madrid), La mirada despotica: Un viaje pos las autopistas de Los Angeles, June 28 (review: Gallery Soledad Lorenzo)
Ericsson, Lars O, “Ljus och svarta fran L.A.”, Dagens Nyhoter, May 23, ill.
Jonsson, Dan, “LA: s obarmhartiga ljus”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, May 21
Arbetet, Nyheterna, Konsten och varldsstadens sjal, May 18
Ohman, Richard, “Konstscen Los Angeles”, Norvastra Skanes Tidningar, May 18, ill.
Weirup, Torben, “Lysende spor”, Berlingske Tidende, May 17
Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols, “Signs of the Times”, Artforum, May, pp.25-26 (response to Q&A)
Walsh, Daniella B, “Another perspective on the face”, The Orange County Register, April 27
Curtis, Cathy, “Something to Smile About”, Los Angeles Times, April 22, F3-F5
“Art: Composite Persona”, Buzz Weekly, April 27
Trebay, Guy, “Dialogue of the Biennalites”, The Village Voice, April 1, pp.50-51
Rugoff, Ralph, “L.A.’s Female Art Explosion”, Harper’s Bazaar, April, pp.204-5, pg.246, ill.
Shigoto No Kyoshitsu, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes”, Tokyo, Japan, April, pg.117, ill.
Nihon Keizai Shinbun, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes”, Tokyo, Japan, March 15, pg.40, ill.
Pincus, Robert L, “Fabricated faces are sign of times in art today”, The San Diego Union Tribune, March 10, pg.E-5
La Seine, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes”, Tokyo, Japan, March, ill.
“Rrose Selavy, A Point of Departure”, Flash Art, March, pg.61
Studio Voice Multi-Media Magazine, “Voice’s Art Space: L.A. Portraits Houses and Landscapes”, Japan, March, pp.75-78, ill.
Hanatsubaki, “Sub-Culture is Super-Culture”, Shiseido, Tokyo, March, ill.
Japon, Marie-Claire, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes”, Tokyo, Japan, March, pg.185, ill.
Check Mate, “Catherine Opie at Shiseido”, Tokyo, Japan, March, pg.209, ill.
Conti, Rena and Moskowitz, Ivan, “L.A. Muscle, The Salad Years”, Milwaukee, WI, Feb/March, pg.19
Yadegaran, Jessica, “The Daily Aztec, Skewed perceptions”, February 6, pg.7, ill.
BT Magazine, “Mike Kelley and L.A. Art Scene”, Tokyo, Japan, February, pg.51, 74, ill.
An An, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes at Sheseido”, Tokyo, Japan, February, pg.138, ill.
Tokyo Walker, “Catherine Opie: Houses and Landscapes”, Tokyo, Japan, February 19-25, pg.119, ill.
“Catherine Opie, Tokyo, Japan”, Weekly Pia, February 25, pg.206, ill.
Rimanelli, David, ArtForum, “A/Drift: Bard College”, February, pg.83
Pare, Andre-L, “Actualites/Expositions”, etc Montreal, January-February, pp.44-47, ill.
Joselit, David, “Identity Politics: Exhibiting Gender”, Art in America, January, pp.36-39, ill.
Bellinger, Jesse, “Would I Lie to You? A look at the UAM Lie of the Land exhibit, Santa Barbara”, Daily Nexus, January 16, pg.2A
Gustafson, Paula, “Fabrications”, Xtra West, January 10
“Impact: The Lie of the Land, Santa Barbara”, The Independent, January 9, pg.29, 41
Opie, Catherine, “A Brush with genius: Catherine Opie on Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Sir Thomas More, London”, The Guardian, January 7
Opie, Catherine, L.A. Weekly, “Faces of L.A.: Lari Pittman”, January 3-9, pg.49, ill.

1996
Williams, Gilda, “Evident/The Photographers' Gallery”, Art Monthly, December
Curtis, Cathy, “Art Outlook Includes Insights From All Angles”, Orange County Calendar, December 31, pg.F2, ill.
Beard, Steve, “Evident”, Arena, December, ill.
Smith, Caroline, “Visual Arts: Pick of the Bunch”, Attitude, December
Craddock, Sacha, “Around the Galleries”, The Times, November 27
Smith, Roberta, “Finding Art in the artifacts of the Masses”, The New York Times, December 1, pg.H-43 (review: Bard group exhibition)
“Evident”, Great: The Magazine of the Photographers' Gallery, London, Nov/Dec, no.9, pp.6-7, ill.
Trebay, Guy, “Real Life Rock-Top Ten”, Artforum, October, pg.30, ill.
Wiener, Drag Kings, September, no.196, pp.60-61, ill.
Volk, Gregory, “Catherine Opie/Jay Gorney Modern Art”, Art in America, October, pp.118-119, ill.
Snow, Shauna, “Morning Report: Taking on Lesbian Stereotypes”, Los Angeles Times, October 23, pg.F2
Decter, Joshua, “Catherine Opie/Jay Gorney Modern Art”, Artforum, September, pp.109-110, ill.
Hill, Darryl, “Deconstructiong Gender Dualism through Transgender Photography”, Blackflash, Fall, vol.14.3, pp.9-12, ill.
Couelle, Jennifer, “Fabrications”, CV photo, Summer, pg.31
Dannatt, Adrian, Flash Art, May/June, pp.113-114, ill.
Atlas, James, “The Age of The Literary Memoir Is Now”, The New York Times, May 12, (photograph of Lisa Michaels by Catherine Opie), pg.29
Camus, Renaud, Frieze, June/July, pp.52-57 (illus. for fiction, introduction by Bruce Hainley)
Michaels, Lisa, The New York Times Magazine, “Flower Childhood”, May 12, pp.27-31 (portrait by Catherine Opie)
Kandel, Susan, “Catherine Opie/Regen Projects”, Los Angeles Times, May 3, pg.F-22
Ferguson, Russell, “Catherine Opie with Russell Ferguson”, (interview), Index, April, pp.28-31, ill.
Catchlove, Lucinda, “Identity is a Drag”, Hour, April 25-May 1
Aquin, Stephane, “Masculin feminine”, Voir, April 17, pg.11
Couelle, Jennifer, “Dis-moi ton sexe, je te dirai qui tu es....”, Le Devoir, April, ill.
Byrd, Cathy, CL, “Mighty Morphin: ‘Transformers’ at Nexus”, Arts & Entertainment, April 13, cover, pg.28, 30, 34
Roth, Charlene, “The Light Under the Bushel”, Artweek, April, pp.12-13, ill.
Boschma, Feike, “Beelden der objectiviteit”, Fries Dagblad, March 29
Artner, Alan G, “Persona non grata”, The Chicago Tribune, March 17, Section 7, pg.3, ill.
Thijsen, Mirelle, “Intimi en zelfkant van bestaan in ‘Black & Blue’”, Het Financieele Dagblad, March 16, ill.
Kimmelman, Michael, The New York Times, “Catherine Opie/Jay Gorney Modern Art”, March 15, pg.C-27, ill.
Marsman, Eddie, “Wat op elkaar lijkt is nog niet hetzelfde”, Leeuwarder Courant, March 15, ill.
Griffin, Tim, Time Out New York, “Catherine Opie/Jay Gorney Modern Art”, March 13-20, pg.26, ill.
Servetar, Stuart, New York Press, “Catherine Opie/Jay Gorney Modern Art”, March 13-19, pg.68
Aletti, Vince, “Deep House, review: Opie at J.G.M.A.”, The Village Voice, March 19, pg.79
“LA-LA Land, review: Opie at J.G.M.A.”, The New Yorker, March 18, pg.26
Chayat, Sherry, “Cornell show exhibits multiple personalities”, Syracuse Herald American, March 10, pp.11-12
Rijsdam, Jan, “Schone Schijn: Hollandse toestanden”, Leids Dagblad, March 9, ill.
Hurlburt, Roger, Sun-Sentinel, MoCA LOCA, Miami, Florida
Tilroe, Anna, “De shoenendoos van de meloenenvrouw”, NRC Handelsblad, March 3, ill
Bos, Eric, “Onschuld is verleden tijd”, Brabants Nieuwsblad, March 1, ill.
Judong, Anne and Peeters, Wim, “Catherine Opie”, Gynakika, March 1
“Black en Blue:aspecten van de samenleving in foto's”, Gay Krant,
March 1
Koevoeter Courant, “Who’s afraid of ‘Black & Blue’”, February 26
Snoodijk, Martijn, “Ontluisterent”, Oor, February 24, ill.
Lakke, Gerard, “Black and Blue toont het rauwe bestaan”, UK, February 22, pg.19
Turner, Elisa, “Thoroughly Modern MoCA”, The Miami Herald, February 18, pg.51, ill.
Artner, Alan, “Art”, Chicago Tribune, February 16, Section 7, pg.56
Opie, Catherine, “Catherine Opie, portfolio: portraits”, Provocateur, February, vol.1, issue 3, pp.30-38; ill.
Keunen, Mirjam, “Foto’s zoals het leven zelf”, Algemeen Dagblad,
February 15
Bos, Eric, “Beelden uit een kapotte wereld”, Leids Dagblad, February 13, ill.
Bos, Eric, Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, February 9, ill.
“Wie is er nog bang voor Black & Blue?”, Loeks, February 6, ill.
Weinstein, Michael, “Review”, New City, February 5
De Vries, Marina, “Acht keer het Amerikaanse alternatief”, Het Parool, February 5, ill.
Bos, Eric, “Indringende beelden van een verloren en beschadigde wereld”, Nieuwsblad van Het Noorden, February 3
“Een spiegel van de tijdgeest”, Groninger Dagblad e.a., February 2, pg. AE 15, ill.
Ruyters, Marc, “Expo. Freeways”, Weekend Knack, January 31, pg.72, ill.
Eelbode, Erik, “Catherine Opie”, De Witte Raaf, no.59, January-February, pg.31
“Miami Defines the Nineties”, Flash Art, January-February
D’Hoore, Sylvie, “Lege snelwege”, De Gentenaar, January 26, ill.
Eelbode, Erik, “Desolate snelwegen, haarscherpe studiofoto’s. Niet risicoloos spel van de Americkaanse fotografe Catherine Opie”, De Morgen, January 13, ill.
“VREEMd-MAKEN”, Obscuur, January 4, pp.16-17, ill.
Kent, Sarah, “Images of Masculinity”, Time Out London, review, 10-17 January, ill.
“Portraits of L.A.”, L.A. Weekly, issue 95, December 29-January 4, pg.25

1995
“Une Version Americaine de La Belle et la B’te”, Beaux Arts Magazine, November, (preview: ill.)
“La Belle et La B’te”, Art Press (Paris), pg.72
Smith, Cherry, “Eu estava presa em um corpo de sapatao”, Folha de Sao Paulo, July 12
Archer, Bert, “Bending gender-bending”, Xtra!, May 26, pg.33 (review of Fabrications)
Livingstone, David, “RuPaul: dragging theory into practice”, Globe and Mail, May 18
Lee, Robert W.G., “Fabrications”, Parachute, vol. 84, pg.65
Kandel, Susan, “A Biennale or a Bust?”, Los Angeles Times Calendar, June 25, pg.7, 92
Selwyn, Marc, “Report from Los Angeles”, Flash Art, May/June, pp.96-99, ill. (also ill. on contents page)
Helfand, Glen, “On a Bender”, Wilde, May/June, pp.21-22, ill.
Hoving, Thomas, “Art for the Ages”, Cigar Aficionado, summer, pp.214-226
Haye, Christian, Frieze, Catherine Opie at Jack Hanley, March/April, pp. 71-72; ill.
“Opie and Company”, Out Magazine, May, pg. 58; ill.
Kertess, Klaus, “exhibition catalogue”, 1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, New York, ill.
Knight, Christopher, “Toning It Down at the Whitney”, Los Angeles Times Calendar, April 16, pg.5, 54
Cotter, Holland, “Catherine Opie”, New York Times, April 14, pg.C4 (review at Gavin Brown)
Smith, Roberta, “Void, Self, Drag, Utopia (and 5 Other Gay Themes)”, New York Times, March 26, pg.40, ill.
Kimmelman, Michael, “A Whitney Biennial That's Generous, Sensuous, and Quirky”, New York Times, March 24, pg.B1, B6
Solomon, Deborah, “All Persuasions, No Whiners”, The Wall Street Journal, March 24, pg.A10
Goldberger, Paul, “The Art of His Choosing”, New York Times Magazine, February 26, pp.30-39, pg.52, 55, pp.61-62, ill.
Clabburn, Anna, “Persona Cognita”, World Art, January, pg.108, ill. (review)

1994
Knight, Christopher, “Big Burb”, Design Quarterly, no.162, Fall, pp.1-12
Bonetti, David, “3 Singular Visions”, San Francisco Examiner, December 1
Burana, Lily, Dagger on Butch Women, Cleis Press, pg.157, 161, ill.
Anderson, Michael, “Invitational 93, review”, Art Issues, Jan/Feb, pg.43
Knight, Christopher, “A Bicoastal Flashback”, Los Angeles Times, February 18, pg.F1, F28
Goldberger, Paul, “The Art of His Choosing”, New York Times Magazine, February 26, pp.30-39, pg.52, 55, pp.61-62, ill.
Knight, Christoper, “A Suggestion of Cultural Edginess”, Los Angeles Times, March 10, pg.F1, F11, ill.
Engberg, Juliana, “exhibition catalogue”, Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia,
Verhoeven, Deb, and Rugoff, Ralph, “Transformers, exhibition catalogue”, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
Saltz, Jerry, “L.A. Rising”, Art & Auction, April, pp.88-91, pg.122, ill.
Bonetti, David, “Gallery Watch: Give em that ol' tired religion”, San Francisco Examiner, April 15, pg.D10, 11, ill.
Kandel, Susan, “A Piercing Look: at Regen Projects”, Los Angeles Times, June 9, pg.F11, ill.
Rugoff, Ralph, “Alter Natures”, L.A. Weekly, June 24-30, pg. F7, ill.
McKenna, Kristine, “Welcome to Opie's World”, Los Angeles Times Calendar, June 24, pg.8, 90, ill.
Smith, Roberta, “Body of Evidence”, Vogue, August, pp.150-154, ill.
Zellen, Jody, “Catherine Opie”, Art + Text, September, no.49, pp.85-86, ill
Pagel, David, Art Issues, Sep/Oct, pg.45, cover and ill. (review)
Kotz, Liz, “Erotics of the Image”, Art Papers, Nov/Dec, pp.16-21, ill.
DeGenevieve, Barbara, “Letting Us Look: Scandalous Genders, or Blur Baby Blur”, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Fall/Winter, pp.46-47, ill.
Schmidt, Barbara U, “Jenseits polarer Differenzen”, Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft, Autumn
Schmidt, Barbara U, “When Gender Attitudes Attack the Norm”, Kritik, no.3
Goetz, Joachim, “Auf dem Weg, Zum Klon”, Landshuter Zeitung, August 9
Fischer, Judith, Oh, boy, it's a girl! Feminism in der Kunst, Verstreute Notizen
Laib, Uta, “catalogue essay”, Kunstverein Munchen, pp.80-86, ill
Cohen, Michael, “Catherine Opie”, Flash Art, Nov/Dec, pg.98, ill (review at Regen)
Relyea, Lane, “Best & Worst 1994”, Artforum, December, pg.69, 105
Trioli, Virginia, “Daddy looks nice in a dress”, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), October 8, pg.11, ill. (review of Persona Cognita)
Chandler, Matthew, “Artists question self-identity”, Doncaster and Templstowe News (Australia), September 14
Sierra-Hughes, Marie, “Many sides of self on show”, Herald Sun-Melbourne, October 19

1993
Koslow-Miller, Francine, “Currents 93: Dress Codes”, Artforum, November, pp.110-111
Lippard, Lucy, “In the Flesh: Looking Back and Talking Back”, Women's Art Magazine, Sep/ Oct, pp.4-9
DiMichelle, “Fresh Work: Invitational 93 at Regen Projects”, David, Artweek, November 4, pg.22
Lord, Catherine, “Down There: Babes in Toyland”, Art + Text, no.46, September, pp.30-33, ill.
Kandel, Susan, “Invitational's Controlling Personas”, Los Angeles Times, October 14, pg. F12, ill.
Darling, Michael, “Voices Carry”, Santa Barbara News-Press, pp.29-30, ill.
Lippard, Lucy, “Back Talk: Women's Voices in the 90's, exhibition Catalogue”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Rugoff, Ralph, “Three projects from L.A. Curated for frieze by Ralph Rugoff”, Frieze, March, pp.18-21, ill.
Ternin, Christine, Boston Globe, March 10, vol.243, no.10, (review at ICA)
McQuaid, Cate, “His & Hers: In the ICA's Dress Codes”, The Boston Phoenix, March 12 (review)
Sherman, Mary, “Clothes Call”, Boston Herald, March 12, (review at ICA)

1992
Vroege, Bas, “Wasteland, exhibition catalogue”, Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam III
Kotz, Liz, “The Body You Want: Liz Kotz Interviews Judith Butler”, Artforum, November, pg.83, ill.
Framework, Violence issue, vol.5, nos.2 and 3

1991
Meyer, Richard, “Exceeding the Frame: recent production by lesbian and gay artists”, Situation, exhibition catalogue essay
Hirsch, David, New York Native, December 2, issue 450 (review at 494 Gallery)
Cottingham, Laura, NYO, December 15, issue 8, pg.37 (review at 494 Gallery)
Smith, Anna Marie, “The Feminine gaze: Photographer Catherine Opie Documents a Lesbian Daddy/Boy Subculture”, The Advocate, November 19, pp.82-3, ill. (rev. 494 Gallery)
Helfand, Glen, Art Issues, Sep/Oct, vol.19 (review)

1990
Oversight, (CalArts), vol.2
Frank, Peter, L.A. Weekly, “Catherine Opie: Pick of the Week”

1989
Off Ramp (Santa Monica School of Architecture), The Master Plan, Spring
Beckman, L, and Sorenson, K, Los Angeles, Lucky, Spring, vol.2

1988
L.A. Weekly, Annual Critics' Choice, December 15-19, vol.11
Revenge, vol.1

1984
Inside/Out (San Francisco Art Institute)

Public Collections

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Collezione Patrizia e Augustino Re Rebaudengo Sandretto, Turin, Italy
Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Lambert Art Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Linc Group, Chicago, IL
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Metropolitan Savings Bank, Mayfield Heights, OH
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Prudential, Newark, NJ
Refco, Inc., Chicago, IL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY