Catherine Wagner
1953–

Introduction

Catherine Wagner (born January 31, 1953) is an American photographer, professor and conceptual artist. Wagner has created large-scale, site-specific public artworks for the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Kyoto, Japan. Her work is represented in major national and international collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Wagner's process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti called "the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves." In addition to being a practicing artist, Wagner has been a professor of art at Mills College in Oakland, California, since 1979. She received the Rome Prize in 2013, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Ferguson Award.

Wikidata identifier

Q16185651

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Introduction

In 1975, Wagner began to photograph architecture, focusing on building sites, small industry, and vernacular structures. Wagner's photographs document the changing American landscape and explore sociological and political ideas about change and culture. In 1979, she began to photograph the construction of the George Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Five years later, she photographed the Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans. Wagner also photographed postmodern architecture at the Vieux-Port in Québec City, Canada, in 1984. Wagner is associated with the Society for Photographic Education.

Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, photographer, teacher

ULAN identifier

500040769

Names

Catherine Wagner, Catherine F. Wagner

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