David Opdyke
Artist in Residence
May 2024
Born in post-industrial Schenectady, New York in 1969, David Opdyke makes artwork that explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment. His work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Washington Convention Center in DC. In October 2020, Monacelli Press/Phaidon published a book based on his large-scale postcard project This Land, including essays by Lawrence Weschler and Maya Wiley. He lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens.
Learn more about David Opdyke at davidopdyke.com and @david.opdyke on Instagram.
David Opdyke
Books Chosen for the Lab Library by
David Opdyke
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm
God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn
This Life
by Martin Hägglund
Wittgenstein’s MIstress
by David Markson
Under A White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert