Faculty: Geof Oppenheimer

Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts
opshop@uchicago.edu

Geof Oppenheimer 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 Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Oppenheimer’s work takes up the formal manifestation of civic value, the ways in which political and social structures are encoded in images and objects. It is a practice that is situated at the intersection of art and politics, but in such a way that neither art nor politics is reducible to the other term. He has participated in exhibitions such as The Gold Standard at PS1/MOMA, Long Island City NY; Restless Empathy at the Aspen Art Museum, Agitated Histories at The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore and SITE Santa Fe. Solo exhibitions include those at Ratio 3, San Francisco, The Project, New York; MC, Los Angeles and at SF Camerawork, San Francisco.

Awards include: Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship (2005), Eisner Foundation (2001), Grand Mariner Foundation (2001).