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Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
Ended5 March 2026 – 31 May 2026·Ticketed — see website
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Over 80 photographs spanning studio portraiture, LGBTQ+ portraiture, and documentary photography.
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Opie spent forty years photographing the people America didn't want to look at — leather communities in the eighties, queer pregnant parents in the nineties, the empty Republican landscapes of the last decade. Her first proper UK survey, on the NPG's top floor, is the most quietly political show in town. Don't sleep on it.
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- Catherine Opie: To Be SeenUS Embassy Madrid, CC BY 2.0
- Renoir and LoveCourtesy of National Gallery
- Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A ConversationCourtesy of National Gallery
- Art deco: the golden age of poster designCourtesy of London Transport Museum
- National Portrait GalleryIstvánka / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National GalleryCarlos Delgado / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- London Transport MuseumColin Park / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Courtauld GalleryAnthony O'Neil / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Churchill War RoomsJenny Poole / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0