David Opdyke's (b. 1969, Schenectady, NY) makes art that explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment. His hand-modified landscape postcards offer a bracing commentary on the impact of the climate crisis on the American landscape. The works explore the themes of climate displacement and migration and bring humanity to the center. In Opdyke’s hands, these postcards are transformed from snapshots of early twentieth-century leisure into emissaries from different futures—visions of spectacular manifestations of the climate crisis. 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. This year, WNET Public Media has commissioned him to produce a 30-minute animated film for broadcast in 2025. In 2022, he collaborated with the Climate Museum in its first pop-up exhibition in Soho. Pairing his work Someday, All This with a community engagement space, the pop-up hosted extensive public programming exploring the intersection of climate change with the arts, justice, science, human migration, philosophy, activism, comedy, and more. In 2020, 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.
David Opdyke American, b. 1969
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