Catherine Wagner was born in 1953. The artist has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1987 allowed her to finish the American Classroom series. The Los Angeles county Museum of Art is organizing a new series by Wagner titled Home and Other stories, an exhibition which opens in Los Angeles in August, 1993, and will travel to museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among the museums that have shown Wagner's photographs are The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco (1989); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1988); The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (1988); and the International Center of Photography, New York (1987). Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art r New . York, the Polaroid Collection, Cambridge; the International Center of Photography, New York; and the Bibliotheque National, Paris among other institutions.