Date and country of birth

1958, GB

Career Highlights

Opie’s works can be found in many public art collections, including Tate, British Museum, Victoria & Albert, Arts Council, British Council and National Portrait Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, ICA in Boston USA, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh USA, Essl Collection in Vienna, IVAM in Spain, Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Takamatsu City Museum of Art in Japan.

Recent solo exhibitions
2024
Krakow Witkin, Boston, USA
La Llotja, Palma, Mallorca
Piazza del Quadrilatero, Milan, Italy
2023
Mango Museum, Changsha, China
Lisson Gallery, London
Kukje Gallery and F1963, Busan, South Korea
Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
2022
Krobath, Vienna, Austria.
Guangdong He Art Museum, Shenzen, China.
Maho Kubota, Tokyo, Japan.
PARCO Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China.
MIXC World, Shenzhen, China
2021
Collected Works / Works Collected, Newlands House Gallery, UK
Lisson Gallery Cork Street, London, UK
City of Valencia, Spain
Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Pitzhanger Manor & Manor, London, UK
Cristea Roberts, London, UK
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
2020
Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Lisson Gallery, Shanghai
2019
Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
Lisson Gallery, New York, USA
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Krobath Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018
F1963, Busan, South Korea
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, USA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Recent group exhibitions
2024
Counterpoint, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
The Future To Be, UCCA Lab, TianJin, China
Food in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Phenomena: Perspective for an Introduction to the MUSAC Collection, MUSAC, León, Spain
The World in My Hand, BlackBox / Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
2023
Inaugural Collection Exhibition, Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
LIGHT: Works from the Tate Collection, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Outdoor Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Schloss, Derenburg, Germany
Seeking the City, Datong Contemporary Art Season, Datong Ancient City, China
2022
SMBC Meets Contemporary Art, Come Take a Look!, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East Building, Tokyo, Japan.
Lets Meet At The Station, Plateforme 10, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland.
London Calling, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome.
Myths and Dreams, Arkas Art Centre, Izmir, Turkey.
Stories We Live With – Selected Works from the Spengler Collection, Q Contemporary, Budapest, Hungary.
Ways of Collecting: Midnight of Art – The Karel Babiček Collection, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague.
Beijing Biennale, China Wuhan Biennale, China
Collection+: Judith Alexandrovics/Julian Opie, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Australia
2021
In Bed With A Mosquito, Galerie Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
We Change The World, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia
Pop Power from Warhol to Koons, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA
Un goût de vacances, des saveurs dété, CAC Meymac, France
Trauma: Shooting the Pulitzer + 15 mintues, Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea
Masterpieces in Miniature, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Sculpture at Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2020
Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA.
Jingan International Sculpture Project, Shanghai, China.
NGV Triennale, Melbourne, Australia.
2019
Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China.
Nature In Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland.
Life Is A Highway: American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA.
Our Collections!, Tottori Prefetural Museum, Tottori City, Japan.
Ding / Unding. The Artists Book Unbound, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zurich.
Selfies: Artists Self Portraits, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate UK.
Romantics, St Barbe Museum, Lymington UK.
2018
On Form, Peterborough Museum and City Gallery, Peterborough, UK.
Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
Acquisitions 2017-2018, National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens, Greece.