Oppenheim's work plays with the process of creating photographs and film. Her pieces often question the documentary genre as well as the concept of an archives. In utilizing archival sources, she interrogates and reappropriates the archival function of narrative-making and -omitting, and how narrative and imagery are intertwined but ultimately separate. In work such as Lunagrams, 2010, in which she exposed archival glass negatives using moonlight, Oppenheim experiments with time as a force of art and imagery. She has done works in fiber arts which is art created using strings, ropes and fabric. Her works in fiber arts were displayed in her Gramma exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Oppenheim has had the honor of many solo and group exhibitions at international venues including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York City, the :fr:Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne|FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska in Bosnia, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Exhibitions
Oppenheim’s solo exhibitions include “By Faith and Industry,” Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam ; “Story, Study, Print,” Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London ; “The Making Of Americans,” STORE, London ; “Invention Without a Future,” Harris Lieberman, New York ; “Open Source,” University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography ; “Blood to Ghosts,” Klosterfelde, Berlin ; “Blood to Ghosts,” Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam ; “Art Statements,” Art Basel 42, Switzerland ; “Vapours and Veils,” Klosterfelde, Berlin ; “Intervention: Lisa Oppenheim,” 21er Haus, The Belvedere Museum, Vienna ; “Equivalents,” Harris Lieberman, New York ; “Heaven Blazing Into The Head,” The Approach, London ; “Point de Gaze,” Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam ; “Art Parcours,” Art Basel, Switzerland ; “La Quema,” Lulu, Mexico City ; “Project Space: Nature's Pencil,” Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf ; “Forever is Composed of Nows,” :de:Kunstverein in Hamburg|Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany ; “From Abigail to Jacob ” at :de:Grazer Kunstverein|Grazer Kunstverein Graz, Austria.; “Landscapes,” Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam ; “Hereditary Language,” FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims ; “Gramma,” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York ; Analytic Engine, The Approach, London ; “A Durable Web,” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York ; “Spine,” MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. Curated by Andria Hickey, the exhibition, explored the human spine in nature, in the body, and in labor. It featured repurposed photographs by Lewis Hine, textiles based on Pre-Columbian textiles in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and landscape portraits. Recent exibitions were Spine, MCA Denver ; "The American Colony," The Approach, London ; and "The Eternal Substitute," Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles.
Awards
- In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA/AGO Photography prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario. - Shpilman International Photography prize from the Israel Museum. Collections Her work is included in the public collections of:
