Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present To Your Shore From My Shore And Back Again, an exhibition of portraits and landscapes by Los Angeles-based photographer Catherine Opie, curated by the artist. Over the course of her career, Opie has produced numerous bodies of work that engage important socio-political issues and critical discourses in contemporary culture, art history, and the history of photography. Her distinct approach to image making blends the objectivity of documentary photography with conceptual rigor, technical mastery, and an occasional dose of wry humor. Opie’s work examines and often exposes the ideals and norms surrounding stereotypical American values and social structures, expanding ideas of both identity and community, and giving visibility to those often overlooked within dominant narratives.

Marking Opie’s debut solo exhibition in Korea, To Your Shore From My Shore And Back Again features over 25 landscapes and portraits, many of which have never before been exhibited. Installed in two distinct but interrelated groupings across Lehmann Maupin’s Seoul gallery, works from the artist’s iconic 1990s Portraits are presented together on the ground floor, while the top floor houses From Your Shore to My Shore, an immersive installation of seascapes. Although the artist frequently works in series, this curated presentation of historic work allows for a more expansive approach to exhibition making and offers a break from seriality. For To Your Shore From My Shore And Back Again, Opie mines her archive and brings discrete bodies of work into dialogue to suggest new connections and identify throughlines that have cut across her practice for the last 30 years.