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Julian Opie

British, 1958

Biography

Julian Opie

  • Born in 1958, London, UK
    Lives and works in London, UK

Education

  • 1982      Goldsmiths School of Art, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023
    Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Roma, Italy 
    OP.VR@Kukje/F1963.BUSAN, Kukje Gallery & F1963 Sukcheon Hall, Busan, Korea
    OP.VR@LISSON/London, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    OP.VR@Changsha, Mango Art Museum, Changsha, China

    2022
    JULIAN OPIE: Studio for Kids, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
    Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China
    Maho Kubota, Tokyo, Japan
    OP.VR@PARCO, PARCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    Julian Opie: OP.VR/HEM@shenzhen, MIXC WORLD, He Art Museum. Shenzhen, China
    Julian Opie, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria

    2021
    Julian Opie: Collected Works/Works Collected, Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, UK 
    Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway 
    Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 
    Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK 
    Recent Works, Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
    Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK
    La Nau Cultural Centre, Valencia, Spain

    2020               
    Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
    Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
    Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

    2019    
    Eden Project, Cornwall, UK                     
    Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
    Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
    Lisson Gallery, New York, US

    2018                                    
    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, US
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    F1963, Busan, Korea

    2017                         
    Julian Opie After Van Dyck, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
    Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
    Bund Financial Centre , Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
    Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia, Spain

    2016               
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
    Krobath Galerie, Vienna, Austria 
    Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    2015               
    ARCO, Madrid, Spain 
    Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
    Winter, British Council, New Delhi, India
    Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
    Recent Works, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK 
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

    2014          
    SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
    Ikon Icon 2000s, Ikon, Birmingham, UK
    MoCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow), Krakow, Poland
    Julian Opie Collected Works, Holburne Museum, Bath and Bowes Museum, Durham, UK
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
    Krobath Galerie, Berlin, Germany
    Channing School for Girls, ARK Gallery, London, UK
    Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 
    Winter and other Seasons: Landscapes by Julian Opie, British Council, London, UK

    2013                       
    Barbara Krakow, Boston, US
    Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
    Krobath Gallery, Vienna, Austria
    Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway

    2012    
    Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
    Lisson Gallery, London, UK

    2011    
    Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
    National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
    Krobath, Berlin, Germany
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland

    2010    
    Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
    Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
    IVAM, Valencia, Spain
    Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

    2009   
    Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
    Dancing in Kivik, Kivik Art Centre, Osterlen, Sweden
    Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
    SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
    Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium

    2008    
    MAK, Vienna, Austria
    Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
    Art Tower Mito, Japan

    2007   
    Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
    Museum Kampa, Prag, Czech Republic
    Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
    King’s Lynn art centre, Norfolk, UK

    2006    
    CAC Malaga, Spain
    Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK

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

    2004 - 2005                 
    Public Art Fund, City hall Park, New York, US

    2004   
    Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
    Kunsthandlung H. Krobath & B. Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
    Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
    Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin, Germany
    Krobath Wimmer, Wien, Austria

    2003               
    Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Germany
    K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland

    2002
    Rebecca Gallery, Athens, Greece
    Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
    Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
    Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
    Atelier Augarten, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

    2001    
    Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
    Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

    2000    
    Abbaye Saint-André, centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
    Junge Kunst, Wolfsburg, Germany
    Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2023
    Neither II: Julian Opie and Charles LeDray, Neither, London, UK
    Inaugural Collection Exhibition, Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
    LIGHT: Works from the Tate Collection, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    LIGHT: Works from the Tate Collection, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

    2022
    Collection+ Judith Alexandrovics / Julian Opie, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
    Let's Meet At The Station, PLATEFORME 10, Lausanne, Switzerland 
    Stories We Live With - Selected Works from the Spengler Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest, Hungary.
    Myths and Dreams, Arkas Art Centre, Ismir, Turkey
    London Calling: British Contemporary Art Now. From David Hockney to Idris Khan, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, Italy
    SMBC Meets Contemporary Art, "Come Take a Look!", Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East Building, Tokyo, Japan

    2021
    Urban Adventure Spatial Art Exhibition, Junction of Sichuan North Road/Wujin Road, Shanghai, China
    Sculpture at Firstsite, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
    In Bed With A Mosquito, Galerie Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
    We Change The World, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 
    Masterpieces in Miniature, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
    Un goût de vacances, des saveurs d’été, CAC Meymac, France 
    POP Power from Warhol to Koons: Masterworks from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family
    Foundation, 
    Figge Art Museum, Davenport, US
    Trauma : Shooting the Pulitzer + 15 minutes, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea 

    2020
    NGV Triennale 2020, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Jing’an International Sculpture Project, Jing’an District, Shanghai, China
    Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, US

    2019    
    Romantics, St Barbe Museum, Lymington, UK
    Selfies: Artists Self Portraits, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, UK (Touring)
    Ding / Unding. The Artist’s Book Unbound, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    Our Collections!, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori City, Japan
    Life is a Highway: American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, US
    Nature In Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
    Now is The Time – 2019, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhejiang Province, China

    2018    
    Acquisitions 2017-2018, EMST, Athens, Greece.
    On Form, Peterborough Museum and City Gallery, Peterborough, UK
    Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK

    2017    
    Right Here, Right Now: 21st Century Art, Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK
    Everything At Once, Lisson Gallery in partnership with The Vinyl Factory 180 The Strand, London, UK
    The Show Must Go On, Kunstmueum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    What does art do at hospitals?, Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark
    (X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
    Das Auto In Der Kunst, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
    Synthetic Landscapes, Weston Park, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, UK
    This Is Not The Reality. What Kind Of Reality?, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    Drawing Biennale 2017, Drawing Room, London, UK
    Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, US
    A Certain Kind of Light, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

    2016   
    L’arte difference: Works from the MOCAK Collection in Rome, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
    Sites Under Construction, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
    Five / Fifty / Five Hundred, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
    Summer Exhibition, 2016. Royal Academy, London, UK.
    Boys’ Toys and Girls’ Pearls, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
    New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
    On Surface: Surface as Carrier of Meaning in 21st Century Art, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
    Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
    Line, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

    2015         
    MODEL, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic                                
    Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK 
    Face to Face, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
    Faces: Between figures, portraits and masks, Neus Museum, Nuremburg, Germany
    Beauty Myth: Facets of beauty in nature, art and society" Upper Austrian Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
    The Violet Crab at DRAF, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
    Making it: Sculpture in Britain 1977 - 1986, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK 
    Vita Vitale Azerbaijan Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    Dimensions Variable Pavilion d'Arsenale, Paris, France
    No Place Like Home, Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Utah, USA.

    2014         
    Genius Loci: A Spirit of Place, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
    Post Pop: East meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
    Secret Passions, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
    Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Virginia, US
    Celebrating 30 years in Stockholm, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

    2013   
    Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Kilomètres-heure, Utopies automobiles et ferroviaires (1913-2013), The Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard and the Musées de Belfort,  Belfort, France (touring)
    Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    Power | Delusion | Vision, Germany (touring)
    Summer Show 2013, Royal Academy, London, UK
    Sitting, Going, Standing, (F)lying, Kunstverein (KISS), Germany
    Stranger, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
    Double Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Morality: Imagination and Death, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
    In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature - From John Constable to Rachel Whiteread, Harewood House, Yorkshire, UK
    The Collection, Salon de H, Seoul, Korea
    Walk on – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, Forty years of art walking, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (touring)
    Re-viewing the Landscape, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK (touring)
    Looking at the view, Tate Britain, London, UK
    Keywords – a vocabulary of culture and society, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
    Force of Nature: Picturing Ruskin’s Landscape, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK

    2012               
    Text & Human, Ung-no Lee Museum, Daejeon, Korea
    Sculptor’s Drawings & Works on Paper, Pangolin, London, UK
    Past and Present of British Contemporary Art _ Patrick Caulfield & Julian Opie, Ilju & Seonhwa Foundation, Seoul, Korea
    The Gallery Collection, Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
    Der Blick, das Wort, die Geste (The look, the word, the gesture – works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Collection), RLB Kunstbrücke Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
    Schau mir in die Augen... (Look me in the eyes), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
    Spotlights-Video.Art, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria

    2011    
    Small is beautiful XXIX, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
    Julian Opie – Eadweard Muybridge, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
    The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (touring)
    Small, Medium, Large, Donjon, De Vez, Vez, France
    Highrise: Idea and Reality, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
    Art & Stars & Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Stuttgart, Germany
    The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electrnic Age, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
    Observadores, Museu Colleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
    Journey of a Dress: Diane von Furstenburg, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
    Watch Me Move: The Animation Show, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
    Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London, UK
    Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
    Rugby Collection 2011, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, UK

    2010               
    Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
    What is Beautiful, Deutches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
    Fast Forward: British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Brazil
    The Rhythm of Istanbul, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
    Sea Fever: From Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
    Pictures about Pictures, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
    From Here to There: Contemporary Work from the Arts Council Collection, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
    Realism – The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany

    2009               
    Boule to Braid, curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Citygarden, Saint Louis, US
    Wham – Painting and Beyond, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York, US
    DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate, Liverpool, UK
    Lisson presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    Transparency, National Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
    Musac; Huesped: Coleccion MUSAC en el MNBA, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
    Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell, Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

    2008              
    Shaping a Space II, Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
    Lo and Behold, Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
    The prospect 27, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK
    Regard_ Camera, Le Centre d’art contemporain de la ferme du buisson, Noisiel, France
    Outlines, Gimpel Fils, London, UK 
    Static: Contemporary Still Life and Portraiture, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK
    Art is for the spirit: Works from the UBS art collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
    Still / Motion, Mie Prefecture Museum, Osaka, Japan
    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

    2007              
    The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 – 1988, ICA, London, UK
    Passion for Art: 35th Anniversary of the Essl Collection, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
    Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla Y León, León, Spain
    Sculpture Grande, Prague, Czech Republic
    Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
    Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, US
    Group Show II, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US

    2006-2007       
    The Wonderful Fund: Art for the new millennium 2000 – 2005, Pallent House Gallery, Chichester, UK         
    Eye on Europe: Prints, books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    2006               
    Face to Face (Portraits from Reynolds to Opie), Sherborne House, Sherborne, UK
    Summer group show, Barbara Krakow gallery, Boston, US
    Wallworks, part of Swing Space: Contemporary art in unexpected places, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO),  Toronto, Canada
    Switched On, Alan Cristea, London, UK
    Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
    Auto Nom, Kassel, Germany

    2005               
    Long Playing: Record Covers by Artists, Barbara Krakow gallery, Boston, US

    2004-2006                 
    Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, touring: California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte; ICA Boston, Boston; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    2004               
    Making Faces, A National Gallery Touring Exhibition, Bristol, UK
    Museums & Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
    Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
    Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
    The Tower Block, vertical architecture, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London, UK
    Porträt ohne Antlitz, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
    Funny Cuts; cartoons and comics in contemporary art, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
    People, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy
    Summer Exhibiton, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

    2003 
    Saved, 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
    Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
    Arcadia; the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
    Addiction, 15 Micawber Street, London, UK
    Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    No Art-No City – City Utopias in Contemporary Art, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany
    Auto-nom, das Automobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Urban Codes – Coder/Décoder, espace de l’art concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
    Trickfilm, André Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mc Lain Gallery, Houston, US
    MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento Rovereto, Trento, Italy

    2002-2003                 
    Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, US
    MAK Centre for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US and MAK Vienna, Austria
    Total Überzogen, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

    2002              
    Frenetic Interference, Memory/Cage editions art publishers, New Museum Store, New York, Window on Broadway by Julian Opie, US
    Bigger Splash, The Whitechapel Art Gallery at London Art Fair, London, UK
    Sculptura 02, International Art in Public Spaces, Falkenberg, Sweden
    Remix, Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
    Out of Place, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, UK
    Shine, the Lowry, The National Landmark Millennium Project for the Arts, Salford Quays, Salford, UK
    Babel 2002: Race-Face, Languege-Dialogue, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    New Acquisitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, US
    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    Shine, Saint Pancras Chambers, London, UK
    The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London, UK
    Projects YAL77, billboards for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Continuity/Transgression, Tokyo Museum of Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

    2001-2002                
    Landscape, The British Council, Exhibition tour opening at ACC Gallery, Weimar; travelling to House of Artists, Moscow; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Bulgaria; Museu de Arte Contemporânes de Niterio, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte de São Paolo; Le Botanique, centre culturel de la communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Begium
    In Fumo: Art, Comics, Communication, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
    Import, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
    Multiplication, a British Council touring exhibition of Artist’s Multiples, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Muzeul de Arta in Brasov, Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu, Rumania; show travelling to Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia and Poland
    Tate Modern permanent collection, UK

    2001   
    /arts, BBC websites, the Lux, London, UK
    Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
    Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
    Cause & Effect, Organised by the British Council (touring in Poland, Hamburg, and Cuba)
    Milano Europa 2000, PAC e Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

    2000               
    Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg / Van Doren, New York, US
    A Salon for the 21st Century, John Weber Gallery, New York, US
    Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
    Videoprogramm, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (Travelled)
    Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
    The Self is Something Else - Art at the end of the 20th Century, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Hausschau – Das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
    Outdoor project for Volkswagen\Stadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
    Sitooteries, Belsay Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London, UK
    Parklight, Clissold Park, London, UK
    Fact & Value, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, UK
    Face à face, Kunstpanorama Luzern, Switzerland
    Pict, Walter Phillips Gallery Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
    Give and Take, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK
    Version 2000, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Genève, Switzerland
    Wanted!, International Video Program, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
    Drawings & Photographs: Schöpfung, Freising Diözesanmuseum, Munich, Germany

Selected Projects

  • 2023
    "Imagine you are driving a red car", "Imagine you are driving a white Honda", Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Holle, Germany
    "Street". MSC Euribia cruise ship
    "Ruth walking in jeans", Regents Place, London, UK

    2022
    “Running in Venice”, The St Regis Hotel, Venice, Italy
    Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China
    Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan, China
    “Walking in Lisbon”, WTC Lisbon, Portugal 

    2021
    “Night city”, Shibuya Fashion & Art Week, Tokyo, Japan

    2020    
    “Paul and Padmini running”, Magdalen College School, Oxford, UK
    “Parade” and “Running 3”, Pacific Place, Hong Kong
    “Winter”, Huarun China Resources, Shanghai, China
    “Australian Birds”, City of Melbourne, Australia

    2019    
    "Elena", Vogue Korea, Seoul, Korea
    "Walking in Shanghai", Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
    “Hospital Rooms”, Jasmine Lodge, Exeter, UK
    “Crowd 4.”, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK

    2018    
    “Walking and jogging 1.” and “Walking in Samseong-dong.”, Hyundai Department Store, Trade Centre, Seoul, Korea
    “Walking in Shanghai”, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
    “Teresa.”, Parque De Exposições de Braga, Braga, Portugal
    "Beach walkers.", Hamilton Princess Hotel, Bermuda
    "Tina.", Tokoyo Inn, Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan
    Hospital Rooms, Eileen Skellern 1, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK

    2017
    "Soldier and Solicitor", Seoho Development Busan, Korea

    2016
    Lumiere London, Carnaby, London, UK
    "Walking in Taipei", Taipei, Taiwan
    "Walking in Hong Kong", Tower 535, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
    CitizenM hotel, Tower Bridge, London, UK

    2015
    "Walking in the city." Arndt & Medernach, Luxembourg
    "Banker, Nurse, Detective, Lawyer." City of Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Japan

    2014
    UNIQLO T-shirt project, UNIQLO, Japan and MoMA, New York, US
    Fine Art Sail, Cowes Week, UK
    Arte Coni 100, Olympic banner project, Rome, Italy
    Glyndebourne Festival 2014 programme cover, Glyndebourne, UK
    CitizenM hotel, Times Square, New York, US
    CitizenM hotel, Paris, France
    PKZ Fieldpausch dept. store, Zurich, Switzerland
    "INFRA", Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia
    Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

    2013
    SP_Urban Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden
    Canary Wharf, London, UK
    La Jolla Murals, San Diego, US
    The Thief Hotel, Oslo, Norway
    K&L Gates, Portland, US
    "INFRA", Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium
    The London Boat Show 2013

    2012
    Tate Exquisite Forest online, London, UK
    Festival O! Gwangju Madia Art 2012, Gwangju, Korea
    National Academy, New York, US
    The City of London, Great St Helen’s: Sculpture Space, London, UK
    "Promenade" Calgary, Canada
    ArtFund app, UK
    Lindo Wing: St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK
    Hermes "Art Window 6", Sydney, Australia
    Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy

    2011               
    Japanese Galleries, British Museum, London, UK

    2010
    Shanghai Expo, China     
    Regent’s Place, London, UK

    2009
    Centre D'Art Contemporain Meymac, France
    Yongin University, Seoul, Korea
    Morgan Stanley Building, Seoul, Korea
    Olympic Stamp, Royal Mail
    The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, US
    Bank Santander, Madrid, Spain
    "INFRA", Royal Opera House, London, UK

    2008
    "Walking on O'Connell Street", Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
    "Deloitte Ignite" Royal Opera House, London, UK

    2007
    River Vltava, Prague, Czech Republic
    Phoenix, Arizona, US

    2006
    Rogers Building, Toronto, Canada
    Mori Building, Omotesando Hills, Japan
    Aldrich Museum of Art, Connecticut, US
    Arts Council of Indianapolis, US

    2005-2006        
    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US

    2005
    Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    2004
    MCA Chicago, Chicago, US

    2003
    Selfridges, Manchester, UK          
    Barts & the London Hospital, London, UK
    Bergne Visual Arts at Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
    "Formula 1 Racing", Milan Railway Station, Italy

    2002    
    WWK Munich, portrait commission, Munich, Germany
    "The Wall at WAM", Museum's Renaissance Court, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, US
    "Blast to Freeze", British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh cat)
    Tribe Art Commission, Honda Formula One Team, Boiler House, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK
    "Conduire. Auteur: Julian Opie", 6 Gloria, Marseille, France
    Sculptures for Dentsu Building, Tokyo, Japan
    Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, wallpaper and window works. Chicago, US

    2000    
    St Etienne: CD and album covers + poster campaign
    "The Art of Barbie", charity event organised by Elton John
    Cruise ship on Lake Constance, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
    Blur: record and album covers + campaign
    "I remember her" multiple for "Art of this Century" New York, US

    1999
    John Islip Street wall, Tate Gallery, London, UK
    The Lux Centre, night time window projections, London, UK

    1998
    Houses X Artist ongoing project. OpenOffice, New York, US
    Collection Box, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
    Heathrow Airport terminal 1.
    Save the Children Colouring Book
    Other Rooms, Other Voices", audio works by artists - played on Swiss Radio Station (cat)

    1994
    Tate Gallery Christmas Tree, Tate Gallery, London, UK
    Wormwood Scrubs, London, UK
    "5 batiments de banlieue", Annonciades, Bordeaux, France

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
    Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
    Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Brussels, Belgium         
    British Embassy, Washington, US
    Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, US
    Collection Essl, Vienna, Austria
    Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
    Dentsu Building, Tokyo, Japan
    Daimler Chrysler, Dresdner Bank, Berlin, Germany   
    Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
    Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland        
    Dublin City Gallery Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
    Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
    Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
    Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
    Gana Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
    Gjensidige, Oslo, Norway
    ICA, Boston, US
    Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencià,  Spain
    Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
    Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
    Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, US
    Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany
    M + Museum, West Kowloon, Hong Kong
    Maison Europeene de la photographie Paris, France
    MUSAC, Leson, Spain
    Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
    Museo d'Arte Contemporanea LUIGI PECCI, Prato, Italy
    Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
    Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, US
    Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany          
    Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
    Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
    Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    The British Council, London, UK
    The British Museum, London, UK
    The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
    The Government Art Collection, London, UK
    The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
    Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
    Tate Britain, London, UK
    Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
    The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
    Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, US

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2023-05-00 Public Art
2021-11-00 Art In Culture
2021-11-00 Dazed & Confused Korea
2021-10-00 Harper's Bazaar
2021-02-04 Harper's BAZAAR
2018-05-18 Vogue Korea
2017-12-00 월간미술
2017-10-09 매일경제
2017-10-05 아시아경제
2017-09-27 Yonhap News Agency
2015-04-00 PUBLIC ART
2014-05-00 ART QUARTERLY
2014-04-29 헤럴드경제
2014-04-00 마음수련
2014-04-00 미술시대
2014-04-00 GRAPHY
2014-03-18 코리아 중앙데일리
2014-03-07 The Korea Times
2014-03-04 코리아중앙데일리
2014-03-01 코리아해럴드
2014-03-00 ARENA Homme+
2014-03-00 W Korea
2014-03-00 BAZAAR
2014-03-00 Eloquence Magazine
2014-03-00 COSMOPOLITAN
2014-03-00 pulse
2014-03-00 월간미술
2014-03-00 Bar&Dining
2014-03-00 j.j. magazine
2014-03-00 PUBLIC ART
2014-03-00 HEREN
2014-03-00 Magazine ART
2014-03-00 artnow
2014-03-00 ASIANA
2014-03-00 Neighbor
2014-03-00 JJ MAGAZINE
2014-03-00 AVENUEL
2014-03-00 Style 조선일보
2014-03-00 bob
2014-03-00 Art in Culture
2014-03-00 IMPRESSION by 36.5c
2014-02-22 코리아해럴드
2014-02-18 코리아중앙데일리
2014-02-17 서울경제
2014-02-17 코리아 해럴드
2014-02-12 Blouinartinfo
2014-02-08 코리아헤럴드
2014-02-00 노블레스
2014-02-00 헤렌
2014-02-00 Allure Korea
2014-01-06 코리아타임즈
선과 면으로 표현한 동시대적 인간 군상 Julian Opie   pdf Living sense
영국 팝아트 거장, '조각의 댄스'로 돌아오다   pdf 한국경제
줄리안 오피 “VR고글 쓰고, 러닝머신서 걷고...내 작품 속으로 들어와”   pdf 매일경제
British artist Julian Opie takes pandemic experience as opportunity to evolve art   pdf The Korea Herald
ART LOG   pdf Public Art
서울스퀘어 외벽 타던 '걷는 사람'들…7년만에 삼청로 거닐다   pdf 이데일리
팬데믹 시티스케이프   pdf Art In Culture
JULIAN OPIE   pdf Dazed & Confused Korea
<JULIAN OPIE> His Unique Formal Language   pdf Noblian
“호기심과 놀라움을 선사”∙∙∙줄리언 오피의 시각언어 국제갤러리에서 개인전   pdf 문화일보
Opie’s animal sculptures, Incheon artwork unveiled at Kukje Gallery   pdf The Korea Herald
사람·동물·건물…간결함 속 섬세함 줄리안 오피 개인전 "일상이 새롭게 다가온다"   pdf 한국일보
보편의 예술가로 유일하기   pdf Harper's Bazaar
걷는 사람들   pdf Harper's BAZAAR
유니클로, 두 번째 ‘라이프웨어 매거진’ 발간...”옷을 통해 일상을 풍요롭게”   pdf 동아일보
줄리언 오피의 여정   pdf Vogue Korea
단순화한 고독   pdf 월간미술
“작품을 통해 세상을 좋은 방향으로 변화시킬 수 있기를"   pdf 월간미술
걷는 옆모습이 가장 파워풀   pdf 매일경제
24m LED 파사드로 표현한 군상   pdf 아시아경제
색을 갖고 노는 스승 vs 움직임을 그리는 제자   pdf 조선일보
當代藝術家眼中的都會日常   pdf WE PEOPLE
현대미술 대표작가 줄리안 오피 수원아이파크미술관서 개인전   pdf 인천일보
"걷는 사람들 흥미로운 오브제… 팔레트 자체"   pdf 세계일보
英팝아티스트 줄리안 오피 "걷는 사람들은 '팔레트' 그 자체"   pdf 뉴스1
영국 팝아트 거장 오피 "걷는 사람에 끌리는 이유요?"   pdf 연합뉴스
줄리언 오피 “걷는다는 건 인간의 파워풀한 이미지”   pdf 헤럴드경제
걸어가는 사람들 순간의 아름다움 캔버스에 오롯이   pdf 경기신문
수원시립아이파크미술관, 줄리안 오피展 개막   pdf 중부일보
Julian Opie's walking people lights up Suwon   pdf Yonhap News Agency
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum opens exhibition of works by Julian Opie   pdf artdaily
Contemporary Artists Redefine the Portrait at London's V&A Museum   pdf Blouin Artinfo
줄리안 오피 '군중(Crowd)' 가까이 하기엔 너무 먼 당신과 나   pdf Gold Club
CITY, ARCHITECTURE AND PUBLIC ART   pdf PUBLIC ART
[Worldwide Interview] Julian Opie   pdf W
태도 특정적 프로젝트   pdf ART QUARTERLY
서울, 비오는 날의 팝아트   pdf 헤럴드경제
Life and Culture   pdf 마음수련
Julian Opie 전   pdf 미술시대
국제갤러리_Julian Opie   pdf GRAPHY
줄리안 오피를 둘러싼 오해의 말들   pdf MUINE
JULIAN OPIE   pdf 코리아 중앙데일리
Julian Opie   pdf The Korea Times
Julian Opie   pdf 코리아중앙데일리
거리의 사람들이 뿜어내는 아름다움   pdf S Magazine
Julian Opie   pdf 코리아해럴드
춤추는 군중   pdf ARENA Homme+
활보하는 인간의 섹시한 리듬   pdf LUXURY
픽토그램으로 그린 서울   pdf GEEK
오피의 움직이는 몸   pdf W Korea
반전이 있는 얼굴   pdf BAZAAR
Julian Opie   pdf Eloquence Magazine
Museum Hours   pdf COSMOPOLITAN
Seoul Art Walks in Spring   pdf pulse
Hot Art Space   pdf 월간미술
줄리안 오피 개인전   pdf Bar&Dining
Julian Opie in Seoul   pdf j.j. magazine
줄리안 오피 전   pdf PUBLIC ART
줄리앙 오피의 속도   pdf HEREN
Julian Opie   pdf Magazine ART
오피가 돌아왔다.   pdf artnow
줄리언 오피   pdf ASIANA
걷는 사람들   pdf Neighbor
줄리안 오피의 서울사람들   pdf JJ MAGAZINE
오피의 사람들   pdf AVENUEL
Walking in Sadang-dong in the rain   pdf article
줄리안오피 개인전   pdf Style 조선일보
Julian Opie   pdf bob
거리를 걷는 사람들-서울편   pdf Art in Culture
줄리안 오피가 그린 사람들   pdf IMPRESSION by 36.5c
도시를 걷는 사람들 그 아름다움과 에너지   pdf 하나은행
줄리안 오피가 그린 도시인의 강렬한 초상   pdf Sulwhasoo
비범한 재료, 엄격한 조합. 줄리안 오피가 왔다   pdf CNB저널
Julian Opie   pdf 코리아해럴드
줄리안 오피?...아, 서울역앞 물들이는 '걸어가는 사람들'~   pdf 아주경제
英 유명 팝아트작가가 본 서울 사람들   pdf 세계일보
팝아티스트가 본 서울 "컬러풀"   pdf 한겨레
신사동-사당동 사람들...만화같은 색감 '산뜻'   pdf 동아일보
"주제만큼 중요한 것은 표현 기술과 재료"   pdf 경향신문
비닐로 만든 色의 향연, 상술인가 예술인가   pdf 서울신문
The color of Seoul: Julian Opie comes to Kukje   pdf 코리아중앙데일리
단순.경쾌...화폭 거니는 서울남녀   pdf 문화일보
낯설고 신비로운 우리 동네   pdf 서울경제
Fashionable Seoulites redrawn a la Julian Opie   pdf 코리아 해럴드
"다이내믹한 사람들...서울은 밝음 그 자체"   pdf 해럴드경제
택시미터기 속 달리는 말에 영감받은 남자   pdf 조선일보
"신사동 거리 보면서 현대인의 내면 읽었죠"   pdf 매일경제
英팝아티스트가 포착한 서울사람들 패션과 감성   pdf 한국경제
무표정한 군상들 갑자기 현실로 튀어나올듯   pdf 한국일보
서울 거리를 걷는 사람들, 그안에 가득 찬 에너지   pdf 파이낸셜뉴스
켜켜이 녹아 있는 미술사 ... 줄리언 오피 개인전   pdf SBS뉴스
'옷 잘입는' 서울 사람의 걷는 모습…줄리안 오피展   pdf 연합뉴스
영국 팝아티스트 줄리안 오피 "대단하다, 서울시민 패션감각"   pdf NEWSis
Julian Opie Opens New Show in Seoul   pdf Blouinartinfo
Exhibitions   pdf 코리아헤럴드
<줄리언 오피>전   pdf 노블레스
오피, 서울을 관찰하다   pdf 헤렌
Julian Opie, Walking in Sinsa-dong I., 2014 2.13-3.23   pdf The Move
줄리안 오피의 외출   pdf Allure Korea
Pushing the envelope   pdf 코리아타임즈
박수근, 빌 비올라... 새해 화단 '별들의 전쟁'   pdf 한국경제
英 팝아트 줄리안 오피의 눈에 비친 '서울 사람들   pdf 이데일리 라이프