Final weeks to view Catherine Opie: Portraits of Artists at the Royal Academy in London, closing Sunday 3 December.

This free display features photographer Catherine Opie’s portraits of leading British artists: Royal Academicians David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien, and Royal Academy Schools graduate Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Drawing on the theatricality of 17th-century Baroque painting, Opie uses high-contrast lighting to render her subjects in dramatic detail, inviting the viewer to explore these powerful and introspective works with what she describes as an ‘extended gaze’. 

The five works are now part of the collection of the Royal Academy. 

Catherine Opie
Portraits of Artists

17 June–3 December 2023

Collection Gallery
The Royal Academy of Arts
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET