Julian Opie
Works
Biography
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Born 1958, London
Lives and works in London
Education
1983
Goldsmith’s School of Art, London
Awards
2001
Music Week CADS, Best Illustration for “Best of Blur”
1995-1996
Residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché
1995
Sargant Fellowship at the British School in Rome
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Art Geneve, Geneva
Krobath, Vienna
Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
2015
Galerie Mario Sequeira, Braga
Winter, British Council, New Delhi
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
Julian Opie: Editions 2012-2015, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MoCAK), Krakow
Julian Opie Collected Works, Holburne Museum, Bath and Bowes Museum, Durham
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Krobath Galerie, Berlin
Channing School for Girls, ARK Gallery, London
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
Ikon Icon 2000s, Ikon, Birmingham
Winter and other Seasons: Landscapes by Julian Opie, British Council, London
DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
Julian Opie – Collected Works, The Holbourne Museum, Bath
Julian Opie – Ikon Icon 2000s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2013
Krobath Gallery, Vienna
Mortality: Death and the Imagination, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University of All Saints, Manchester
Patrick de Brock, Knokke
Winter. Editions, Alan Cristea, London
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
2012
Sakshi Gallery, Dehli
Lisson Gallery, London
2011
Lisson Gallery, Milan
National Portrait Gallery, London
Julian Opie, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Print Retrospective, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Julian Opie, Krobath Gallery, Berlin
2010
Julian Opie, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga
Julian Opie, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Gallerist, Istanbul
Julian Opie, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
IVAM, Valencia
2009
Valentina Bonomo, Rome
Dancing in Kivik, Kivik Art Centre, Osterlen
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Patrick de Brock, Knokke
2008
MAK, Vienna (exh cat)
Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (exh cat)
Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
Art Tower Mito, (exh cat)
2007
Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Museum Kampa, Prague
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
King’s Lynn art centre, Norfolk
2006
CAC Malaga (exh cat)
Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2005
Mario Sequeira, Braga
La Chocolateria, Santiago de Compostela
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
MGM, Oslo
Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2004
Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York
Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (exh cat)
Kunsthandlung H. Krobath & B. Wimmer, Vienna
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke
Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin
Krobath Wimmer, Wien
2003
Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg (exh cat)
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (exh cat)
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
2002
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga (exh cat)
Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Atelier Augarten, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (exh cat)
2001
Lisson Gallery, London
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (exh cat)
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
2000
Abbaye Saint-André, centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (exh cat)
Junge Kunst, Wolfsburg
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (exh cat)
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
1999
Primo Piano, Rome
Morrison Judd, London
Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin
Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Stadtgalerie am Lehnbachhaus, Munich (exh cat)
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
1997
Gallery Nova Sin, Prague (exh cat)
Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin (exh cat)
The Economist Plaza, London
Kunsthandlung H. Krobath & B. Wimmer, Vienna
De Gouverneurstuin, Assen
1996
Galerie Analix B&L Polla, Geneva
Driving in the Country, CCC Tours, Tours (exh cat)
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Lisson Gallery, London
1995
Cityscape, Monica de Cardenas Galleria, Milan
1994
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (exh cat)
Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Imagine you are Walking, Tramway, Glasgow (exh cat)
1993
Hayward Gallery, London (exh cat)
1992
Wiener Secession, Vienna (exh cat)
1991
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya (exh cat)
Galerie Luis Campaña, Frankfurt
Jänner Galerie, Vienna
Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
Primo Piano, Rome
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (exh cat)
1990
Lisson Gallery, London
1988
Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
Galeria Montenegro, Madrid
Paul Maenz, Cologne
1986
Lisson Gallery, London
Franco Toselli Gallery, Milan
1985
Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (exh cat)
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas
1984
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland (exh cat)
1983
Lisson Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Untitled, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
2016
Line, Lisson Gallery, London
Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
On Surface, Lehmbruck Museum, Dusseldorf
Printed Matter, Eleven Fine Art, London
MOMAT Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo
Pop Art Classics, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Setouchi Triennale, Takamatsu
Made In Britain: Michael Craig-Martin, David Hockney, Patrick Hughes und Julian Opie, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Manifesta 11, Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
An der Oberfläche. Die Oberfläche als Bedeutungsträger in der Skulptur, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Boys Toys and Girls Pearls, Bob Van Orsouw Gallery, Zurich
Sites Under Construction, Manifesta 11, Zurich
Summer Exhibition, 2016. Royal Academy, London
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, ICA Boston, Boston
Five / Fifty / Five Hundred, Lisson Gallery, Milan
New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Summer-Accrochage, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nürnberg
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Towards Night, Towner, Eastbourne
L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Untitled, Kunstraum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt
2015
Biennale di Venezia – 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice
Fotografie: International – Video, Mixed Media, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart
The Violet Crab At Draf, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Klaas Kloosterboer: Face to Face, galerie bob van orsouw, Zürich
MODEL, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Face to Face, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich
Faces: Between figures, portraits and masks, Neues Museum,
Nuremburg
Beauty Myth: Facets of beauty in nature, art and society, Upper
Austrian Landesmuseum Linz
The Violet Crab at DRAF, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Making it: Sculpture in Britain 1977 - 1986, Longside Gallery,
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
Vita Vitale, Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
No Place Like Home, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Artistes et architecture, dimensions variables, Pavillon de l´Arsenal, Paris
Summer Exhibition, Eastmen Gallery, Hasselt
Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?, DNA, Berlin
INVENTO | AS REVOLUÇÕES QUE NOS INVENTARAM, Oca – Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo
Artists in their time, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
Summer Exhibition, David Benrimon Fine Art, New York
Screen Play: Life In An Animated World, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
unterwegs, DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
Wish You Were Here, MAC Birmingham - Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
2014
against Nature, Camberwell Space, London
Primary Elements, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Virginia
Celebrating 30 years in Stockholm, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Fläche und Form, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden
Popolo, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Summer Group Show, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg
Knock! Knock!, Galeria Javier López, Madrid
Accrochage. Neuankäufe und ausgewählte Exponate aus den Beständen, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Capia Selecta, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk
Lille3000, Tripostal
Walk On. 40 years of art walking from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, The Atkinson, Southport
Portrait: A Group Exhibition, Trépanier Baer, Calgary
Making Links: 25 years, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
What is contemporary in contemporay art?, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga
Genius Loci. Spirit of Place, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice
Post Pop: East meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London
Secret Passions: Le Tripostal, Lille
Nostalgie for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London
Watch Me Move. Un viaje por la animaciòn, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey
Shoot!, Guidi&Schoen – Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
Modern and Contemporary Prints and Editions, McClain Gallery, Houston
Syriart, Phillips, de Pury & Company – London, London
2013
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Kilomètres-heure, Utopies automobiles et ferroviaires" (1913-2013), The Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg in Montbéliard and the Musées de Belfort (France)
Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Summer Show 2013, Royal Academy, London
Sitting, Going, Standing, (F)lying, Kunstverein (KISS), Abtsgmünd/Untergröningen
Stranger, Flowers Gallery, London
Double Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen
Morality: Imagination and Death, Holden Gallery, Manchester
In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature - From John Constable to Rachel Whiteread, Harewod House, Yorkshire
Walk on – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff. Forty years of art walking (touring)
Re-viewing the Landscape, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (touring)
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London
Keywords – a vocabulary of culture and society, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Tate Liverpool
Force of Nature: Picturing Ruskin’s Landscape, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London
Macht | Wahn | Vision – Der Turm und urbane Giganten in der
Skulptur, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Museum im Deutschhof, touring to
Arp-Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
2012
Re-Viewing the Landscape, Gallery W, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Text & Human, Ungo Lee Museum, Daejeon
Sculptors’ Drawings and works on paper, Pangolin, London
Inauguration – 2 Avenue Matignon, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London
The Art of Decelaration, Motion and Rest in Art from Casper David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
High-Rise: Idea and Reality, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
Past and Present of British Contemporary Art _ Patrick Caulfield & Julian Opie, Ilju & Seonhwa Foundation, Seoul
The Gallery Collection, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Pop Art, Kunstkabinett, Regensburg
Der Blick, das Wort, die Geste (The look, the word, the gesture – works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Collection), RLB Kunstbrücke Innsbruck
Schau mir in die Augen..., Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Spotlights VideoArt, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Sightings, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Inauguration – 2 Avenue Matignon, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris
The Art of Decelaration, Motion and Rest in Art from Casper David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
High-Rise: Idea and Reality, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
The Gallery Collection, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Pop Art, Kunstkabinett, Regensburg
2011
Small is beautiful XXIX, Flowers Gallery, London
Julian Opie – Eadweard Muybridge, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
The Art of Decleration, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (touring)
Art & Stars & Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Stuttgart
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electrnic Age, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Julian Opie & Sheri Warshauer, ‘Home, Sweet Home’, GALERIE Supper, Karlsruhe
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Apopcalypse Now, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
WATCH ME MOVE: The Animation Show, Barbican Art Gallery, London (touring exhibition)
Observadores, Museu Colleccao Berardo, Lisbon
Rugby Collection 2011, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby
Journey of a Dress: Diane von Furstenburg, The Pace Gallery, Beijing
Highrise - Idea and Reality, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel
City Art Space, Aviva Square, Great St Helen's and Undershaft, London
Small Medium Large, Le Donjon de Vez, Vez
2010
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Bilder über Bilder, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK , Vienna
Realism –The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich and Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
Shanghai Expo 2010, Shanghai
Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art: Curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
From Here to There: Contemporary Work from the Arts Council Collection, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
What is Beautiful, Deutches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Dresden
Fast Forward: British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros
2009
Lisson presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, UK ‘Transparency’, National Theatre, Prague
Mi Vida: From Heaven to Hell, Mücsarnok, Budapest
Boule to Braide: Curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London
Huésped. Colección MUSAC en el MNBA, Museo National de Belles Artes, Buenos Aries (touring exhibition)
Close Encounters, VHDG - Stichting Voorheen De Gemeente, Leeuwarden
FotoRio – Vídeo Short List/Dream Machine, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niterói, Niterói
Spazio Libro d’Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania
Animated Painting, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa
WHAM – Painting and Beyond, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Musac; Huesped: Coleccion MUSAC en el MNBA, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon
2008
Shaping a Space II, Gallery Mario Sequeira, Braga
Lo and Behold, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke
The prospect 27, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury
Regard_Camera, Le Centre D’art Contemporain, La ferme du Buisson
Outlines, Gimpel Fils, London
Static: Contemporary Still Life and Portraiture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Art is for the spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Still / Motion, Mie Prefecture Museum, Osaka, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2007
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 – 1988, ICA, London
Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon
Sculpture Grande, Prague
Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Winter Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Group Show II, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2006
The Wonderful Fund: Art for the New Millennium 2000 – 2005, Pallent House Gallery, Chichester
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, MoMA, New York
Face to Face: Portraits from Joshua Reynolds to Julian Opie, Sherborne House, Sherborne
Summer Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Swing Space: Contemporary Art in Unexpected Places, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Ontario
Switched On, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Auto Nom Kassel, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, Kassel (touring exhibition)
2004-2006
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, touring: California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte; ICA Boston; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta
2005
Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2004
Making Faces, Bristol Museums and Art Gallery, Bristol (touring exhibition)
Making Faces, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (touring exhibition) (exh cat)
Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne (exh cat)
Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Tower Block: Vertical Architecture, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London
Porträt ohne Antlitz, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (exh cat)
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
People, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples
Summer Exhibiton, Royal Academy of Art, London
2003
Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London (exh cat)
Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich
Arcadia: The Other Life of Video Games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (exh cat)
Addiction, 15 Micawber Street, London
Bienal de Valencia, Valencia (exh cat)
No Art - No City! – City Utopias in Contemporary Art, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen (exh cat)
Auto-Nom: Das Automobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (exh cat)
Urban Codes: Coder/Décoder, Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux (exh cat)
Trickfilm, André Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany Robert McLain Gallery, Houston
Montagna. Arte, scienza, mito.., MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (exh cat)
2002
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue (touring exhibition; MAK Centre for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles and MAK Vienna (exh cat)
Total Überzogen, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
The Wall at WAM, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Frenetic Interference, Memory/Cage Editions, New Museum Store, New York
Bigger Splash, The Whitechapel Art Gallery at London Art Fair, London
International Art in Public Spaces, Sculptura 02, Falkenberg
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Out of Place, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
Shine, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Salford (exh cat)
Babel 2002: Race-Face, Langue-Dialogue, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (exh cat)
New Acquisitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
B.Open: Inaugural Exhibition, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (exh cat)
Shine, Saint Pancras Chambers, London
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (exh cat)
The Galleries Show, the Royal Academy, London
Projects 77, billboards for the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Continuity/Departure, Tokyo Museum of Art, (exh cat) National Museum of Art, Osaka
2001-2002
Landscape, The British Council Exhibition tour opening at ACC Gallery, Weimar; travelling to House of Artists, Moscow, Russia; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Sofia; Museu de Arte Contemporânes de Niterio, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte de São Paolo, São Paolo; Le Botanique, centre culturel de la communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles (exh cat)
In Fumo: Art, Comics, Communication, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (exh cat)
Import, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Multiplication, a British Council touring exhibition of Artist’s Multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Muzeul de Arta in Brasov, Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu; show travelling to Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia and Poland. (exh cat)
Tate Modern permanent collection, London
2001
/arts, BBC Websites, The Lux, London
Art > Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (exh cat)
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge
Cause & Effect, organised by the British Council (touring in Poland, Hamburg, and Cuba)
Milano Europa 2000, PAC e Triennale di Milano, Milan
2000
Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Architecture and Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York
A Salon for the 21st Century, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA ‘Lost’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (exh cat)
Videoprogramm, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (Touring exhibition)
Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (exh cat)
The Self is Something Else - Art at the End of the 20th Century, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, (exh cat)
Hausschau – Das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (exh cat) Volkswagen\Stadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Sitooteries, Belsay Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London (exh cat)
Parklight, Clissold Park, London (exh cat)
Fact & Value, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen (exh cat)
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London (exh cat)
Face à face, Kunstpanorama Luzern, Luzern
PICT, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Banff
Give and Take, Jerwood Space, London
Version 2000, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Genève (exh cat)
Wanted! International Video Program, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
Drawings & Photographs, Schöpfung, Freising Diözesanmuseum, Munich (exh cat)
1999
Etcetera..., Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Common People: British Art Between Phenomenon and Reality, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Guarene d’Alba
Cruise Control, Christine Rose Gallery, New York
In the Midst of Things, Bournville, Birmingham (exh cat)
Manufacturers, The Paper Bag Factory, London
Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (exh cat)
The Space Here is Everywhere, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (exh cat)
Den Haag Skulptur 1999, Den Haag
Vergiss den Ball und Spiel Weiter, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (exh cat)
Please Touch, SCP Store, London (cat)
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Teatro Botanico, la Natura Nell’Arte del XX Secolo, Museo del Castello Ursino, Catania (exh cat)
Art in the City 4, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
1995-2000, 5 Years of Print Publishing, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1998
Thinking Aloud, South Bank Centre, London (Touring exhibition) Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London (exh cat)
Le Voyage Immobile, Galerie George-Philippe Vallois, Paris
Ciudades Sin Nombre, La Sala de Esposiciones de Plaza de España, Madrid
Made in London, Expo ’98, Museu de Electricidada, Lisbon
Richtung Museumsquartier: Die neue Sammlung (1), Palais du Liechtenstein, Vienna
Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London
Distinctive Elements: Organised by the British Council, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (exh cat)
Every Day, 11th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (exh cat)
Kimpo International Sculpture Syposium, Kimpo Sculpture Park, Kimpo (exh cat)
London Now, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, New York
Surfacing Contemporary Drawing, ICA, London (exh cat)
Fondation Cartier, Paris (exh cat)
1997
9th Indian Triennial, Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi; (touring exhibition) Chandigarh, Bhopal, Calcutta, Bangalore, Bombay (exh cat)
On the Border, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Foundations of Fame, London Institute, London
Culturgeist, Caixa General de Depositos, Lisbon
10 Jahre Stiftung, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and ‘90s, Hayward Gallery, London
Such is Life, Serpentine Gallery, London; (touring exhibition) Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Hersliya Museum
printers inc., Arts Council Collection Exhibition, London
Artists for Sarajevo, Venice Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (exh cat)
Follow Me: British Art on the Elbe, Art Studio, Deinste (exh cat)
Another & Another & Another Act of Seeing (Urban Spaces), Desingel International Arts Centre, Antwerp (exh cat)
Art in the City, Kunsthaus Bregenz & Bregenz Kunstverein, Bregenz (exh cat)
Need for Speed, Kunstverein Graz, Graz (exh cat)
1996
Elsewhere, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
Abstract Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (exh cat)
City Limits, Staffordshire University, Staffordshire (exh cat)
The East Wing Exhibition, Courtauld Museum of Art, London
1995
It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, (touring exhibition) Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria; Virginia Beach Centre for the Arts; Tacoma Art Museum; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Dean Lescher Regional Centre for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek; Phoenix Art Museum; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables; Milwaukee Art Museum; Arkansas Art Centre, Little Rock (exh cat)
Drawing the Line, South Bank Centre, London (touring exhibition) (exh cat)
Micromegas, American Centre, Paris
British Art of the 1980s and 1990s – Works from the Weltkunst Collection, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Haus-Geburt, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz (exh cat)
De Henry Moore òs años 90. Escultura Britànica Contemporànea, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, (touring exhibition) Serralves Foundation, Oporto (exh cat)
Fuori Uso, Stabilimenti Ex-Aurum, Pescara (exh cat)
British Abstract Art Part II: Sculpture, Flowers East, London
Architecture(s), CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux (exh cat)
Contemporaneamente, Associazione Spazio Immaginato, Napoli (exh cat)
1994
Spuren, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
New Voices: British Painting, a Selection 1989-1992, organised by the British Council, (touring exhibition) Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao; Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid (exh cat)
London Landscapes, Velan-Spazio 9 Arte, Turin (exh cat)
Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection, S. Antonio di Susa, Turin
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Opera Prima, Trevi Flash Art Museum of Contemporary Art / Associazione Culturale Arte Nova
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Cityscape, Monica de Cardenas Galleria, Milan
Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
1993
IN SITE – New British Sculpture, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo (exh cat)
Machines for Peace, Venice Biennale, ex-Yugoslavian Pavillion, Venice
Serpentine Gallery, London
Juxtaposition, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen (exh cat)
Made Strange, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (exh cat)
Padiglione dell’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Sculpture of the Eighties, Connaught Brown, London
1992-1993
Julian Opie, Jürgen Albrecht, Tim Head, Yuriko Kurimoto, Foro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Verona
Paolo Ucello: spazio e colore, tempo e materia, luce e forma Battaglie dell’arte nel XX secolo, La Salernia, Erice and Sale del Bramante, Rome (exh cat)
1992
Like Nothing Else in Tennessee, Serpentine Gallery, London (exh cat)
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
New Voices, New Works form the British Council Collection, organised by the British Council, Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette, Brussels (exh cat) (touring exhibition)
1991
Confrontaciones 91, Palacio Velasquez, Madrid (exh cat)
Kunst Europa, organised by the British Council, Kunstverein Pforzheim, Pforzheim (exh cat)
Centenary Exhibition, Goldsmith’s Gallery, London
Objects for the Ideal Home, the Legacy of Pop Art, Serpentine Gallery, London (exh cat)
A View of London, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg (exh cat)
Galleria Locus Solus, Genova
1990
Filling in the Gap, Feigen Art Gallery, Chicago
Objectives: The New Sculpture, Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach (exh cat)
The British Art Show 1990, (touring exhibition) Mc Lellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Hayward Gallery, London (exh cat)
Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (exh cat)
Studies on Paper. Contemporary British Sculptors, Connaught Brown, London
Bild und Wirklichkeit, Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Real Allegories, Lisson Gallery, London
Work in Progress International Art in the Caja de Pensiones Foundation Collection, Caja de Pensiones Foundation, Madrid (exh cat)
1989
Grenville Davey, Michael Craig Martin, Julian Opie, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy Mediated Knot, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Objet Objectif, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (exh cat)
Skulptur Teil II, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich
D+S Austellung, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg (exh cat)
1988
Britannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre (touring exhibition) Musée d’Evreux, Ecole d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen
British Sculpture 1960-1988, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Europa Oggi/Europe Now, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato (exh cat)
Les années 80: à la surface de la peinture, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac
Wolff Gallery, New York
1987
Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (exh cat)
British Art of the 80’s: 1987, organised by the British Council, Liljevlachs Konsthall, Stockholm (exh cat), (touring exhibition) Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere as Britannia: Paintings and Sculptures form the 1980’s’ (exh cat)
Casting an Eye, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Documenta 8, Kassel (exh cat)
1986
Skulptur – 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (exh cat)
XVII Triennale di Milano, Milan
De Skulptura – Eine Ausstellung der Wiener Festwochen 1986, Wiener Festwochen im Messepalast, Vienna (exh cat)
Englische Bildhauer, Galerie Harald Behm, Hamburg
Prospect 86, eine Internationale Ausstellung Aktueller Kunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (exh cat)
Correspondientie Europa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exh cat)
Focus on the Image: Selection from the Rivendell Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (exh cat) (touring exhibition), Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica; University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa; Lakeview Museum of Art and Science; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Laguna Glori Art Museum, Austin
1985
The British Show, organised by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and The British Council; (exh cat) (touring exhibition) Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne; National Art Gallery, Wellington
XIIème Biennale de Paris, Biennale de Paris, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (exh cat)
Still Life: A New Life, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (exh cat), (touring exhibition) Bradford Art Galleries and Museum, Bradford; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on- Trent
Anniottanta, Ravenna (exh cat)
Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie and Richard Wentworth, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (exh cat)
Place Saint-Lambert Investigations, Espace Nord, Liège
Figure 1, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
Sculpture in a Garden, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London (exh cat)
1984
Metaphor and/or Symbol. A Perspective on Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (exh cat), (touring exhibition)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Artists for the 1990s – 10 Galleries, 10 Artists, Paton Gallery, London
Underwater, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Sculpture Symposium 1984, St Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec
William Morris Today, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Perspective ‘84’, The International Basel Art Fair, Basel
1983
Charter House Square, London
Young Blood, Riverside Studios, London
Beelden/Sculpture 1983, Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, Netherlands (exh cat) The Sculpture Show, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London (exh cat)
8 Sculptors’ Drawings, Air Gallery, London
Making Sculpture, Tate Gallery, London (exh cat)
1982
Lisson Gallery, London
Sculpture for a Garden, Hounslow Sculpture II, Gunnersbury Park, London
Projects
2015
Arndt & Medernach, Luxembourg
CitizenM hotel, Tower Bridge, London
2014
Walking in Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
UNIQLO T-shirt project, UNIQLO, Japan and MoMA, New York
Fine Art Sail, Cowes Week, UK
Arte Coni 100, Olympic banner project, Rome, Italy
Glyndebourne Festival 2014 programm cover, Glyndebourne
CitizenM hotel, Charles De Gaulle airport, Paris
Glyndebourne Festival 2014 programme cover, Glyndebourne, UK
CitizenM hotel, Times Square, New York, US
PKZ Fieldpausch dept. store, Zurich, Switzerland
INFRA, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
2013
SP_Urban Festival, Sao Paulo
K&L Gates, Portland, Oregon
Arlanda Airport, Stockholm
Canary Wharf, London
La Jolla Murals, San Diego
The Thief Hotel, Oslo
INFRA, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp
The London Boat Show 2013
2012
Tate Exquisite Forest online
Festival O! Gwangju Madia Art, South Korea
National Academy, New York
Great St Helen’s: Sculpture Space, London
ArtFund app, UK
Lindo Wing: St Mary’s Hospital, London
Hermes Art Windo 6, Sydney
Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan
INFRA, Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Illinois
Promenade, Calgary, Canada
2011
Japanese Galleries, British Museum, London
Ruth Walking in Jeans, for Triton Street, as part of the Regent’s Place development, London
2010
Shanghai Expo
Regent’s Place, London
2009
Centre D’Art Contemporain Meymac
Yongin University, Seoul
Morgan Stanley Building, Seoul
Olympic Stamp, Royal Mail
The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent
Bank Santander, Madrid
INFRA, Royal Opera House, London
2008
Walking on O’Connell Street, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
Deloitte Ignite, Royal Opera House, London
2007
River Vltava, Prague
Phoenix, AZ
2006
Rogers Building, Toronto
Mori Building, Omotesando Hills
Aldrich Museum of Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis
2005-2006
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2004
MCA Chicago
2003
Selfridges, Manchester, UK Barts & the London Hospital, London
Bergne Visual Arts at Sadler’s Wells, London
Formula 1 Racing, Milan Railway Station
2002
WWK Munich, portrait commission, The Wall at WAM, Museum’s Renaissance Court Worcester Art Museum
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (exh cat)
Tribe Art Commission, Honda Formula One Team, Boiler House, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London (touring exhibition) Silverstone, Monaco and other F1 races
Conduire. Auteur: Julian Opie, 6 Gloria, Marseille
Sculptures for Dentsu Building, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, wallpaper and window works
2000
St Etienne: CD and album covers + poster campaign
The Art of Barbie, charity event organised by Elton John
Cruise ship on Lake Constance, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Blur: record and album covers + campaign
I remember her, multiple for ‘Art of this Century’ New York
1999
John Islip Street wall, Tate Gallery, London
The Lux Centre, London, night time window projections
1998
HousesXArtist ongoing project. Open Office New York
Collection Box, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Heathrow Airport terminal 1, London
Save the Children Colouring Book
Other Rooms, Other Voices / Andere Raeume, andere Stimmen / Autres voix, autres espaces, audio works by artists - played on Swiss Radio Station (cat)
1994
Tate Gallery Christmas Tree, Tate Gallery, London
Wormwood Scrubs, London
1994-1995
5 bâtiments de banlieue, Annonciades, Bordeaux
Works in Public Collection
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arts Council of Great Britain
Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Brussels
British Embassy, Washington
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
Collection Essl, Vienna
Contemporary Art Society, London
Dentsu Building, Tokyo
Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
Dresdner Bank, Berlin
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Daros Collection, Zurich
Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
Gana Art Centre Seoul
Gjensidige, Oslo
ICA, Boston
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM)
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University
Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, Munich
Maison Europeene de la photographie Paris, Paris
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Prato, Prato
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Krakow
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Portrait Gallery, London
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The British Council
The British Museum, London
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
The Government Art Collection, London
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Leon (MUSAC), Leon
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu
Tate Britain, London
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford