Geof
Oppenheimer’s practice takes up questions of civic value, the ways
in which political and social structures are encoded in images and
objects and how meaning is formed in the modern world. Starting
from the from the proposition that formal value is a social value,
his projects interrogate the forms and rules of civic discourse as
a material, positing art as a space of liberated social dialogue.
Trained as a sculptor, Oppenheimer works across multiple mediums
including stage set video productions, and
photography.
His
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety
of venues such as the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, PS1/MOMA,
The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Aspen
Art Museum, The 4th Athens Biennale and CAB Art Center, Brussels.
His work has been the subject of published writings in Art in
America, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and The New
Yorker. He studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art where
he received his BFA and received an MFA from the University of
California, Berkeley. He also studied at the Academia voor
Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Geof Oppenheimer is an
Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at
the University of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago,
Illinois.
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