The National Portrait Gallery is hosting the first major museum exhibition of American artist Catherine Opie’s work in the UK. Her work explores topics like home, family, intimacy, identity, politics and power structures and over the past 30 years, she’s photographed queer communities, surfers, political crowds, children, high-school footballers, and often herself too. In Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, works from across her career will be displayed, including her first major piece ‘Being and Having’, her Hans Holbein-inspired portraits of LGBTQ+ friends and her Baroque-like portraits of artists.
