Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary
Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains
Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work
on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis
Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native
Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native
Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift,
Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being:
art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of
Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art, Stillwater, OK 2016
Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains
Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary
Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American
Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516
Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of
Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native
Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making:
Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe,
Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian
Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian
Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the
arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of developm
arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of
art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the
art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist,
art and teachers in high school, attending California College of
Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of developm
Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending
art school, professors at
art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going
back to
art school, radical
art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to
art, self - doubts, education in
art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio
art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in
art, conceptual
art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing
on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the
art world, machine works, interrogating
art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public
art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in
art, periods of fragmentation, bad
art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the
art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.