Owen Oppenheimer

Owen was born in San Francisco, grew up in North London and studied Fine Art in Cheltenham and Paris. By this time he was making artwork that combined performance, installation and video. In 1996 he took up a two year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Following a performance dressed as a cowboy, he was approached by filmmaker Shane Carn to be the male lead in his low budget feature, Hideout. From then on Owen began making short narrative films on video, exhibiting them in gallery spaces. In 2000 he was commissioned by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst to produce Mudchute for the arts channel, Kunstkanaal. He has been working on co-written piece commissioned by Film 4 Lab and The London Film & Video Development Agency entitled Carnt Sleep. Owen is the video artist on TalkSexShow.