Geof Oppenheimer is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.  His practice engages the viewer in a conversation about the negotiation of value in contemporary life and how communal meaning is formed (and fails) in our modern time. Starting from the from the proposition that formal value is a social value, his projects interrogate the forms and rules of civic discourse as a material, positing art as a space of liberated social dialogue. It is, in short, about the aesthetics of social life. Trained as a sculptor, Oppenheimer works across multiple mediums including stage set video productions and photography.

His work has been commissioned and exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of venues such as the CRP in France, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, PS1/MOMA, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Aspen Art Museum, The 4th Athens Biennale and CAB Art Center, Brussels.