Catherine Opie's Biography
Catherine Opie is an American photographer and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is best known for her large-scale, highly stylized and often controversial photographs of the American social landscape. She has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and her work is included in numerous public and private collections. Opie has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an International Center for Photography Infinity Award for her lifetime achievement in photography. In 2021, she received the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography.