Lisa Oppenheim

♀ *1975 / United States

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Shortlist: Prix Pictet 2021: Fire

Prix Pictet, London (GB)
16 Dec 2021 – 9 Jan 2022
2014 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize

awarded to Lisa Oppenheim<br><a href="http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/" target="_blank">www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com</a>

AGO Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto (CA)

Solo exhibitions

MONSIEUR STEICHEN

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
6 Jul 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
Ourselves and the Expression of Ourselves

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
3 Sep 2025 – 23 Oct 2025
Monsieur Steichen

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
14 Feb 2025 – 24 Aug 2025
Spolia

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
16 Mar 2024 – 16 Jun 2024
Spolia

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2022 – 22 Oct 2022
THE ETERNAL SUBSTITUTE

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
18 Jan 2020 – 21 Mar 2020
The American Colony

The Approach, London (GB)
28 Mar 2019 – 5 May 2019
Spine

MoCA Denver, Denver (US)
24 May 2018 – 26 Aug 2018
A Durable Web

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2017 – 21 Oct 2017
Spine

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
27 Jan 2017 – 14 May 2017
Analytic Engine

The Approach, London (GB)
7 Apr 2016 – 15 May 2016
Forever Is Composed of Nows

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
27 Sep 2014 – 18 Jan 2015
Point de Gaze

Gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (NL)
7 Sep 2013 – 20 Oct 2013
Heaven Blazing into the Head

The Approach, London (GB)
22 Mar 2013 – 21 Apr 2013
The Story Behind | Heliograms

Galeria Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona (ES)
11 Mar 2013 – 5 Apr 2013
Everyone’s Camera

Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen (DE)
13 Jan 2013 – 24 Feb 2013
Blood to Ghosts

Gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (NL)
6 Nov 2010 – 18 Dec 2010
The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else..., 2006

Jack presents, Lisboa (PT)
14 Apr 2010 – 15 May 2010
Open Source

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
26 Sep 2009 – 2 Jan 2010
By faith and industry

Gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Nov 2007 – 29 Dec 2007
Comoving Observers

annex14, Bern (CH)
3 Mar 2007 – 14 Apr 2007
By Faith and Industry

Liverpool Biennial 2006

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (GB)
16 Sep 2006 – 26 Nov 2006
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Modern Art, London (GB)
5 May 2006 – 4 Jun 2006
Split Screen

Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
27 Aug 2005 – 9 Oct 2005

Group

Thinking Hands

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
12 Sep 2026 – 1 Nov 2026

with Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Martina Bacigalupo, Kevin Bray, Koos Breukel, Devlin Claro, Rebekka Deubner, Mandy Franca, Andi Galdi Vinko, Jane Jin Kaisen, Paul Kooiker, Jan Robert Leegte, Frida Orupabo …
Thinking Hands

Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (NL)
12 Sep 2026 – 1 Nov 2026

with Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Martina Bacigalupo, Kevin Bray, Koos Breukel, Devlin Claro, Robin de Puy, Rebekka Deubner, Mandy Franca, Loïe Fuller, Andi Galdi Vinko, Jane Jin Kaisen, Paul Kooiker …
Latent Landscapes

Stevenson, Amsterdam (NL)
18 Sep 2024 – 25 Oct 2024

with Bruno Boudjelal, Edson Chagas, Pieter Hugo, Moshekwa Langa, Jo Ractliffe, Robin Rhode, Viviane Sassen, Guy Tillim
Prix Pictet - Fire

Fotografiska - Museum, New York (US)
26 May 2023 – 16 Sep 2023

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Prix Pictet: FIRE

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
21 Apr 2023 – 7 May 2023

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Prix Pictet: Fire

Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin (IE)
23 Mar 2023 – 29 Apr 2023

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
PRIX PICTET «FIRE»

Prix Pictet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (GB)
17 Sep 2022 – 28 Oct 2022

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Songs of the Sky

Photography & the Cloud

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
11 Dec 2021 – 21 Apr 2022

with Claudia Angelmaier, Sylvia Ballhause, Marie Clerel, Raphael Dallaporta, Noemie Goudal, Stefan Karrer, Almut Linde, Louis Vignes & Charles Nègre, Trevor Paglen, Simon Roberts, Evan Roth, Mario Santamaría …
PRIX PICTET: Fire

LUMA Westbau, Zürich (CH)
4 Feb 2022 – 10 Mar 2022

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Prix Pictet “Fire”

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
20 Nov 2021 – 23 Jan 2022

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Prix Pictet 2021: Fire

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
16 Dec 2021 – 9 Jan 2022

with Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu, Daisuke Yokota
Home: Live > In Room

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
31 Aug 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Richard Billingham, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Barbara Kasten, Agnieszka Kurant, Langlands & Bell, Trevor Paglen, Cornelia Parker
MAAN/ MOON

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
28 Jun 2019 – 6 Oct 2019

with Annemie Augustijns, Tom Callemin, Cortis & Sonderegger, Giorgio De Finis, Cristina De Middel, Joan Fontcuberta, Vincent Fournier, Leon Gimpel, Harry Gruyaert, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Michael Light, Agnes Meyer-Brandis …
Painting with Light

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
17 Jan 2019 – 9 Mar 2019

with Marco Breuer, Christopher Bucklow, Richard Caldicott, Harry Callahan, Ellen Carey, Luuk de Haan, Susan Derges, Jessica Eaton, Bryan Graf, Sheree Hovsepian, Gottfried Jaeger, Aspen Mays …
Picture Fiction

Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
28 Apr 2018 – 31 Dec 2018

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Robert Cumming, Jan Dibbets, Roe Ethridge, Rodney Graham, Dan Graham, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Joseph Jachna …
Back to the Future

The 19th Century in the 21st Century

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
29 Sep 2018 – 2 Dec 2018

with Johan Oesterholm, Anna Atkins, Sylvia Ballhause, Karl Blossfeldt, BOWNIK, Matthew Brandt, Alan Butler, Warren de la Rue, Wiliam England, Sam Falls, Henry Frères, Pietro Guidi …
Killed Negatives

Unseen Images of 1930s America

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
16 May 2018 – 26 Aug 2018

with Arthur Ann Segan, Paul carter, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, John Vachon
Sublime Smoke

The Approach, London (GB)
1 Oct 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with John Stezaker
The Still Point of the Turning World

Between Film and Photography

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
23 Jun 2017 – 8 Oct 2017

with Morten Barker , Dirk Braeckman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Claerbout, Manon de Boer, Jason Dee, Nir Evron, Mekhitar Garabedian, Geert Goiris, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Mark Lewis …
The Sun Placed in the Abyss

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (US)
7 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Dove Allouche, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Collier, Linda Connor, Tacita Dean, Jan Dibbets, John Divola, Shannon Ebner, Sam Falls, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Dan Graham, Yuji Hamada …
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
20 Nov 2015 – 23 Mar 2016

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, Sara VanDerBeek
Light, Paper, Process

Reinventing Photography

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
14 Apr 2015 – 6 Sep 2015

with Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Chris McCaw, Alison Rossiter, James Welling
Photo Poetics - An Anthology

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
10 Jul 2015 – 30 Aug 2015

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, Sara VanDerBeek
The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor

Mass MoCA, North Adams (US)
1 Oct 2014 – 15 Feb 2015

with Rosa Barba, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Simon Starling
2014 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize shortlist

awarded to Lisa Oppenheim<br><a href="http://www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com/" target="_blank">www.aimiaagophotographyprize.com</a>

AGO Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto (CA)
3 Sep 2014 – 1 Dec 2014

with David Hartt, Elad Lassry, Nandipha Mntambo
Americans in New York 3

Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (FR)
23 Oct 2014 – 22 Nov 2014

with Matthew Buckingham, Hank Willis Thomas
New Photography 2013

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
14 Sep 2013 – 6 Jan 2014

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
New Photography 2013

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
14 Sep 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
17 May 2013 – 22 Sep 2013

with Roy Arden, Huma Bhabha, Nayland Blake, A.K. Burns, Aleksandra Domanovic, Nir Evron, Sam Falls, Lucas Foglia, Jim Goldberg, Mishka Henner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliot Hundley …
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie (US)
12 Apr 2013 – 30 Jun 2013

with Ansel Adams, Jack Butler, Ellen Carey, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, John Coplans, Marie Cosindas, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Ray Eames, Charles Eames, Walker Evans, Bryan Graf …
INTERVENTION

Belvedere 21, Wien (AT)
21 Nov 2012 – 3 Feb 2013

with Agnieszka Polska
Found in Translation

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (DE)
28 Jan 2012 – 9 Apr 2012

with Patty Chang, Keren Cytter, Brendan Fernandes, Sharon Hayes, Matt Keegan, O Zhang
Frieze Art Fair - Photography

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Robert Adams, Pilar Albarracin, Victor Alimpiev, Helena Almeida, Darren Almond, Ziad Antar, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Kader Attia, Roger Ballen, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Yto Barrada …
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Pawel Althamer, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari …
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
11 Feb 2011 – 1 May 2011

with Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Keren Cytter, Omer Fast, Brendan Fernandes, Sharon Hayes, Steve McQueen, Carlos Motta, Jenny Perlin, Sharif Waked
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
9 Nov 2010 – 13 Mar 2011

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Slater Bradley, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Lucinda Devlin …
Free

New Museum, New York (US)
20 Oct 2010 – 23 Jan 2011

with Aleksandra Domanovic, Takeshi Murata, Rashaad Newsome, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Jon Rafman, Clunie Reid, Ryan Trecartin
Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid

Pump House Gallery, London (GB)
6 Oct 2009 – 13 Dec 2009

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Guy Bourdin, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Andre Kertesz, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonathan Monk, Lucas Samaras, Michael Snow …
PRUNE - abstracting reality

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
18 Sep 2009 – 9 Dec 2009

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Roger Ballen, Walead Beshty, Julian Faulhaber, Luke Gilford, Idris Khan, Thomas Ruff, Horacio Salinas, Elliott Wilcox
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foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
25 Aug 2006 – 15 Oct 2006

with Alexandra Leykauf
Documentary Evidence

Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (FR)
5 May 2004 – 5 Jun 2004

with Ross Birrell, Alexandra Leykauf, Jean-Luc Moulene, Christopher Williams

Events

Rencontres d'Arles 2026

WORLDS IN VIEW

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
6 Jul 2026 – 4 Oct 2026

with Felicia Abban, Sammy Baloji, James Barnor, Martine Barrat, Willis E. Bell, Bruno Boudjelal, Anne-Lise Broyer, Clement Cogitore, Rebekka Deubner, Omar Victor Diop, Denyse Gawu-Mensah, Harry Gruyaert …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Farah Al Qasimi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Uta Barth, Jae-Eun Choi, Stan Douglas, Aki Goto, Sueyon Hwang, Isaac Julien, Lotus L. Kang , Lebohang Kganye, Karen Kilimnik, Bohnchang Koo …
FotoFest Biennial 2026

FotoFest, Houston (US)
7 Mar 2026 – 10 May 2026

with Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Nouf Aljowaysir, Refik Anadol, Del Bey, Adrian Burrell, Julia Margaret Cameron, Victor Cartagena, Gregory Chatonsky, Sofia Crespo, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lalla Essaydi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode …
15th Shanghai Biennale

Does the flower hear the bee?

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
8 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026

with Francis Alys, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Sara Cwynar, Rohini Devasher, Theaster Gates, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Amar Kanwar, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sharon Lockhart, Gordon Matta-Clark …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
26 Feb 2026 – 1 Mar 2026

with David Alekhuogie, Kenneth Anger, Uta Barth, Sandra Brewster, Patty Chang, Julian Charriere, Sandra Cinto, Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Olafur Eliasson, Christina Fernandez …
Frieze London 2025

Frieze Masters 2025

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
15 Oct 2025 – 19 Oct 2025

with Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Helena Almeida, Ivan Argote, John Baldessari, Peter Beard, Hannah Black, Daniel Blaufuks, Soumya Sankar Bose, Constantin Brancusi, Julian Charriere …
EMoPLux European Month of Photography Luxembourg 2025

EMoP Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
14 May 2025 – 30 Jun 2025

with Christian Aschman, Jörg Auzinger, Jessica Backhaus, Roger Ballen, Bertrand Cavalier, Gaëlle Choisne, Raymond Clement, Steven Cruz, Olivier Dassault, Marta Djourina, Serge Ecker, Bruce Eesly …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
7 May 2025 – 11 May 2025

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andrea Geyer, David Goldblatt, Alexandra Hedison, Nandipha Mntambo, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Thomas J Price, Eileen Quinlan …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
20 Feb 2025 – 23 Feb 2025

with Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Uta Barth, Widline Cadet, Talia Chetrit, John Divola, Darrel Ellis, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Coco Fusco, Alexandra Hedison, Alfredo Jaar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
2 May 2024 – 5 May 2024

with Doug Aitken, Uta Barth, Anne Collier, Davi de Jesus do Nascimento, Regina Jose Galindo, Rodney Graham, Shilpa Gupta, Frank Heath, Isaac Julien, Kimsooja, Mame-Diarra Niang, Amalia Pica …
Frieze London 2023

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
11 Oct 2023 – 15 Oct 2023

with Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Inaki Bonillas, Lisetta Carmi, Hannah Collins, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Thomas Demand, CAO Fei, Annette Frick, Nan Goldin, Noemie Goudal …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
18 May 2022 – 22 May 2022

with Doug Aitken, Carla Chan, Ernest Cole, Alex Da Corte, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Paz Errazuriz, Roe Ethridge, Rodney Graham, Dan Graham, Leslie Hewitt, Alfredo Jaar …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Los Angeles (US)
15 Feb 2019 – 17 Feb 2019

with Michele Abeles, Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Sophie Calle, William Eggleston, Katy Grannan, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Kruger, Linder, Richard Misrach, Senga Nengudi …
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2018

Mapping the Invisible - <a href="https://www.yebizo.com/en/" target="_blank">yebizo.com/en/</a>

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
9 Feb 2018 – 25 Feb 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Ismail Bahri, Maeve Brennan, Sebastian Buerkner, Marina Gioti, Mako Idemitsu, Jonna Kina, Ken Matsubara, Natacha Nisic, Makoto Oshiro, James Richards, Yoshiko Seino …
Lisa Oppenheim – Billowing

Motto Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Spine

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)