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John Coplans
British/American artist John Coplans was born in London in 1920. Between 1938 and 1946 he served in the British Armed Forces. He then studied art in London and Paris and started his career as a painter. He has exhibited as a painter through 1961, when he had his solo exhibition of painting at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco where he had moved a year before. In the following years Coplans taught at the University of California at Berkeley; co-founded Artforum magazine where he became Editor-in Chief in 1971; and worked as director and curator of two American art museums. In 1980 he moved permanently to New York and turned to photography. At the age of sixty-four Coplans began to photograph his own naked body, the subject he has pursued through a series of "self-portraits" over the past fifteen years. These photographs have been widely represented in solo and group exhibitions at many major American and European museums, most notably in retrospectives at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 1994, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, in 1997, and at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1999. Coplans was selected as participant in three recent Biennials of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (in 1983, 1991 and 2000). Coplans lives and works in New York City.
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William
De Lottie
William De Lottie was born in New Britain, Connecticut, in the United States of America in 1942. He studied fine arts and science at the University of Connecticut (Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, 1968).
After graduating from college, De Lottie chose to live and work in Connecticut, holding non-art jobs, as he still continues to do. Over the years he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Connecticut and more recently at the inaugural exhibition
in Gallery at Village Shalom at the Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, Missouri and with Derek Eller Gallery in New York City. De Lottie's work recently became known internationally with its inclusion in the "2000 Biennial Exhibition" at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City). |
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Dennis Oppenheim
American sculptor and conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim was born in Mason City (now Electric City) in Washington State, in the United States of America in 1938. He studied fine arts and art history at the California College of Arts and Crafts (Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, 1965) and at Stanford University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1966. Oppenheim had his first solo show in the United States at John Gibson Gallery, New York, in 1968 and in France at Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, in 1971. Many other solo and group exhibitions followed, including an influential two-person show with Robert Smithson - "Dialogue", organized by John Coplans at the Akron Art Institute (Ohio). Since that time Oppenheim has continued to exhibit widely in North America, Europe and Asia, including in Documenta VI in 1977; in the 1976 and 1980 Venice Biennale; in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) in 1977 and 1981; and in a number of museum retrospectives. His most recent museum exhibition was organized by the Foundation for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Venice City Counsel in conjunction with the 1997 Venice Biennale and was held on the premises of an operating factory in the
Marghera, a district of Venice. Oppenheim lives and works in New York City. |
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