Born in 1938 in Electric City, USA. Died in 2011 in New York, USA.
Dennis Oppenheim was an American conceptual artist whose work encompassed sculptural installation, performance, and film. Dealing with esoteric ideas of experiential phenomena, nature, and societal structures, Oppenheim’s work, like the works of his peer Robert Smithson, sought to break sculpture out of traditional modes and pose questions rather than signify aesthetic allegiances. “Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations,” he once reflected. “But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.”
Oppenheim’s works are represented in international collections such as the Denver Museum of Art, USA; Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, USA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., USA; The Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA; Tate Gallery in London, UK.
