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 development.
, 300 New York at Chelsea Piers, New York, US French Kiss, curated by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris, FR The Shapes
of Space (Phase II), curated by Nancy Spector, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, US Held Together With Water: Art From the Sammlung Verband, curated by Gabriele Schor, MAK, Vienna, AT; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR A Theater Without Theater, MACBA, Barcelona, ES MARTa Is Silent - The Art of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Space (
Phase II), curated by Nancy Spector, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, US Held Together With Water: Art From the Sammlung Verband, curated by Gabriele Schor, MAK, Vienna, AT; Istanbul Museum
of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR A Theater Without Theater, MACBA, Barcelona, ES MARTa Is Silent - The Art of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR A Theater
Without Theater, MACBA, Barcelona, ES MARTa Is Silent - The Art
of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Silence from Duchamp to the Present, The Mystery
of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of the Etruscans, curated by Jan Hoet and Michael Kröger, MARTa Herford, DE 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Victoria, Melbourne, AU Monument
of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Sugar, curated by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, BE À propos de Carl Andre..., Espace d'Art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Verzameling Roger En Hilda Matthys - Cole, curated by Joost Declerq, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, BE On Fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Espace de L'Art Concret, Mouans - Sartoux, FR Visiting Card, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Iceland, curated by Tony Trehy, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK Grey Water, Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU The Showroom Talks: I Can't
Live Without..., The Showroom, London, UK Beyond the Wall, curated by Haus Lieberman, the Brandenburger Tor Foundation, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE A Second Quarter, screening Bodypoliticx, curated by Florian Waldvogel, Thomas Edlinger, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 30/40 A Selection
Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fia
Of Forty Artists From Thirty Years At Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Herb & Dorothy, New York, US 25 Years Crone Gallery, Galerie Crone, Berlin, DE Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture, des œuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, FR Art & Project Bulletins: 1968 - 1989, Specific Object, New York, US Fiac!