Kristin Oppenheim was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1959. She received an MFA from Hunter College in 1989 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Notable for her immersive sound installations, Oppenheim saturates exhibition spaces with narratives touching on memory or dreamlike states, often using the physicality of sound to underscore a tension between the absence and presence of the voice. A fascination with psychological moods, storytelling and theatrical performance permeates her work as expressed in both audio and visual media. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna (2015), KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2003), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002), and The Jewish Museum, New York (1997), among others; and is in such collections as The Whitney Museum of American Art, FRAC Pays de la Loire, and Centre Pompidou.
