Geof Oppenheimer is trained as a sculptor and works across multiple mediums including stage set video productions, and photography. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of venues such as Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, PS1/MOMA, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Aspen Art Museum, the 4th Athens Biennale and CAB Art Center, Brussels. His work has been the subject of published writings in Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker. He studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his B.F.A. and received an M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied at the Academia voor Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Geof Oppenheimer is an associate professor of practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
Geof Oppenheimer
Studios
Adams
Geof Oppenheimer worked in the Adams studio.
Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…