CATHERINE WAGNER (b. 1953)

Catherine Wagner is perhaps best-known known for her series on architectural spaces, photographs that have a detached yet revealing view of how we arrange fact and fantasy. In 1984, she was commissioned by the Canadian Center for Architecture to shoot the Louisiana World Exposition. Wagner's images are unpopulated, rather she focuses on the physical structures that create the Fair's illusions.

Wagner is the recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1987) and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1990/91). Her work is in numerous collections, including those of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Gift of Theresa Luisotti.