Julian Opie was born in 1958 in London. He graduated from Goldsmith's School of Art, London in 1982. While at Goldsmith's, he studied with prominent artists Richard Wentworth and Michael Craig-Martin both of whom influenced his ideas about the nature of visual art. Shortly after graduating, Opie began exhibiting in galleries and museums across Europe and his works are now in the collections of major institutions around the world including the Arts Council, England; British Museum, London; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; IVAM Museum of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Portrait Gallery, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Collection, London and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
