Biography
Oppenheim's parents were Russian immigrants and his father was Jewish. Oppenheim was born in Electric City, Washington while his father was working on the Grand Cooley Dam Soon after, his family returned to their home in the San Francisco bay area. In 1964, he earned his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and an MFA from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1965.
He moved to New York in 1966 where he first taught nursery school and then high school art while working toward his first one-person exhibition in New York, held in 1968 when he was 30 years old. He lived and worked in New York City until his death from liver cancer on January 21, 2011, aged 72.
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