Opie bellas opra biography

Walking in New York 7., 2019
acrylic paint on stone
110 x 125 x 3 cm
unique

“I prefer to look at a moving landscape, seen from a train or car or walking. This way I can feel the space and get an impression of overall colour without focusing on any particular incident or detail. When I enter a grand museum I like to stand near the entrance and take in the large, dark rectangles in frames that hang on the walls like windows, to see the paintings as objects – rich browns in shining gold surrounds. Seen like this they become classic types, figures in a landscape, nudes, head and shoulder portraits, historical scenes. You can walk into a party and see an old friend or simply take in the jumble of human forms, the mass of heads and hairstyles. Stand on a street corner and look for directions or simply take in the seemingly choreographed dance of the passing crowd. One of those people in the passing crowd, singled out, zoomed in on, might perhaps look like one of these portraits, true to the situation, part individual, part type.

I am showing paintings from three different series; the first were photographed with a still camera on the streets of Seoul by a hired photographer. I chose individuals from the thousands of passing fig

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JULIAN OPIE  
1958 Born London, England.  
Lives in London  
1979-82 Goldsmith's School of Art, London  

AWARDS  
2001 Music Week CADS, Best Illustration for "Best of Blur"  
1995-96 Residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché, France  
1995 Sargant Fellowship at the British School in Rome  

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS  
2008  
MAK, Vienna, Austria 
Lisson Gallery, London  
Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria 
Art Tower Mito, Japan 

2007  
Gallerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin 
"Walk on the Vltava", Museum Kampa, Prague 
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA 
"Julian Opie in the 90's", King's Lynn art centre, Norfolk 

2006 
"Julian Opie", CAC Malaga, Spain 
Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland 
Alan Cristea Gallery, London 
Museum of Indianapolis, IN, USA 

2005-2006 
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA 

2005 
Gallery Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal 
La Chocolateria, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo 
Gallery MGM Oslo, Norway 
Gallery Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy 

2004-2005 
"Animals, buildings, cars and people" Public Art Fund, City hall Park, New York City, curated by Tom 
Eccles 

2004  
'Sara, Bryan & Monique', Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat) 
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (exh cat) 
Kunsthandlung H. Kr

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Selected Awards

1995–1996 Residency at the Atelier Calder; Sache, France 1995 Sargant Fellowship at the British School in Rome, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Krobath; Vienna, Austria Guangdong He Art Museum; Shenzen, China Maho Kubota; Tokyo, Japan PARCO Museum; Tokyo, Japan Lisson Gallery; Beijing, China 2021 "Collected Works / Works Collected," Newlands House Gallery, United Kingdom Lisson Gallery Cork Street; London, England City of Valencia, Spain Patrick De Brock; Knokke, Belgium Pitzhanger Manor & Manor; London, England Cristea Roberts; London, England Kukje Gallery; Seoul, South Korea Gerhardsen Gerner; Oslo, Norway 2020 Berardo Museum; Lisbon, Portugal Galeria Duarte Sequeira; Braga, Portugal Lisson Gallery; Shanghai, China 2019 Eden Project; Cornwall, England Lisson Gallery, New York Gerhardsen Gerner; Oslo, Norway Lehmbruck Museum; Duisburg, Germany Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery; Tokyo, Japan Krobath Gallery; Vienna, Austria 2018 F1963; Busan, South Korea Alan Cristea Gallery; London, UK Krakow Witkin Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts National Gallery of Victoria; Melbourne, Australia 2017 F