Catherine Wagner

Over the course of her career Catherine Wagner has been observing the built environment as a metaphor for how we construct our cultural identities. She has examined institutions as various as art museums and science labs, the home, and Disneyland. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls “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.”

Catherine Wagner has been an active international artist, working photographically as well as with site-specific public art, lecturing extensively at museums and universities for over 30 years. Wagner is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco, and Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica. She has received many major awards, including the Rome Prize (2013-14), a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, and the Ferguson Award. In 2001, Ms. Wagner was named one of Time Magazine’s Fine Arts Innovators of the Year. Her work is represented in major collections nationally and around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, Stanford University, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University. She has also published several monographs, including American Classroom, Home and Other Stories, Art & Science: Investigating Matter, and Cross Sections.