Y V O N N E V E N E G A S
B. 1970 in Long Beach, CA.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
EDUCATION
2019 Art Critique School, focus on Femminist Art, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
2009 MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
1999 Certificate Program, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Notes from the line, Currently online https://www.ago-photo.com/ago-photo
2019 Lapiz de la Naturaleza, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Unique Days A studio and its Archive, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC
2016 Gestus, Heartego Gallery, Monterrey N.L.
2015 Venegas and Venegas, Baxter St. of the Camera Club of New York
2014 San Pedro Garza Garcia, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
You will never be younger than this day, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa MASIN, Culiacan, Mexico
2013 Borrando la linea, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
You will never be younger than this day, Fototeca de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey NL,
2012 You will never be younger than this day: 5 projects by Yvonne Venegas, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2010 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica California
2009 NAME, Tijuana, Mexico and Marcuse Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, Ca.
2007 Marcuse Gallery, University of California San Diego
2006 Cerca Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
EDS, Mexico City
2004 Photo España 04, Casa De America, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Beaux Arts, Orelans, France
Esposas y Muchachas, Cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2002 Centre VU, Quebec, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Noches Fieras, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Luz del Norte, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
2017 Pulsions Urbaines: L'Amerique Latine en Mouvement, Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Point Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
2016 Mexico Megapolis, Fotofestival Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2015 Latin Fire, from the collection of Anna Gamazo de Abello, PhotoEspaña, Madrid
Existe lo que tiene Nombre, Contemporary Mexican Photography, Camera Works, San Francisco and Phoenix University Gallery
Develar y Detonar, Contemporary Mexican Photographty, CentroCentro, Madrid and Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
Re-Tratar, Guatephoto Exhibition in the public Space, Guatemala City
2014 Urbes Mutantes: Latin-American Photography, International Center of Photography, ICP, New York
In Motion: Boders and Migrations, UMOCA, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Selection de la Bienal de Yucatan, Centro Cultural de Arte, Merida
Selection Bienal Miradas, El Cubo, Centro Cultural Tijuana
Mujeres detras de la Lente: 100 years of photography by Women in Mexico, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Fototeca de Nuevo Leon.
2013 Fotonovela: Sociedade/ Classes/ Fotografia, Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
REGISTRO 03 MARCO, Museum of Art, Monterrey NL, Mexico
Bienal Online, www.artplus.com
2012 Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
2011 Embarassment of Riches, Nerman Museum
Numina Femina, Mexican Cultural Institute, San Francisco, Ca.
2010 Mexican Worlds, Bozar Museum, Brussels
20 years of Young Creator's Fellowship, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City
Hyperlocal Identities: Cross-Disciplinary Productions, University Art Gallery, San Diego, Ca.
2009 Imitating Life, Miraflores Haciendo, Peru
Slideluck pot show, Curated by Lesley Martin, Aperture Foundation, New York
MFA 2009, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego
Relative Distance, Tijuana Cultural Center, CECUT
Souvenirs, NAME Gallery, Tijuana
Civic Peoject,EL CUbo, Tijuana
Occasional Relatives, Atheneum Library, La Jolla, California
2008 Innocence is Questionable, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Ca.
2007 VIVA Mexico! Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw
Behind the Dream: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Moscow, Russia and Ivanova Art Museum, Foundation for Interregional Projects, Ivanova Russia.
Sister Cities: Testing Boundries: Art Along the U.S. Mexican Border, El Paso Museum of Art
2006-07 Strange New World, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: Mexican Cultural Center, Washington, D.C
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Ca.
TransActions, Latin American Collection, MCASD
Heterotopias, Puebla, Pue.
2006 Tijuana Organic, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, Bronx River Museum, NY and Tijuana Cultural Center.
Bearings: The female Figure, PS122, New York City
Sylver Eye Photography Award, Sylver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsbourgh, PA
2005 Tijuana Sessions, Organized by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, ARCO Fair, Madrid
Photomathon, Montreal, Canada
2004 Girls on Girls, Studio Space, Mexico City
ES 2004, Traveling Banner Exhibition, Tijuana Cultural Center
LARVA, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Imagen y Movimiento, Travelling Exhibition in Mexico, FONCA
2003-04 From Baja to Vancouver, Traveling Exhibition, Seattle Museum of Art, MCASD, CCAC San Francisco and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada
BC-3 Photography from Baja California, Centro de la Imagen, México City
Tiempo Presente/Present Tense, HR Gallery, Mexico City
Cotidianiedad Documentada, Sala Saura, Huesca Spain
2002 Diagnosticos Urbanos, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico
Traveling Exhibition, X Bienal of Photography, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Advanced Notice, International Center of photography ICP, New York
Border (x) iconography: new media + photography from Tijuana, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
SLIDE SLAM, Art in General, Curated by Allen Frame, New York
TNT, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
Visions: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Mexican Cultural Center, New York
LINES OF SIGHT: Views of the U.S./Mexican Border,
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (UCR) and Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Merced Center for the Arts
2001 Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, MUCA Roma, Mexico City
LAMC, Puk Building, New York
1999 Student Show 98-99 ICP, ICP Midtown Gallery, NY
1998 Spai de la Foto, Valencia, Spain
1997 Territorios Singulares, Part of ARCO fair, Madrid
1996 Tijuana tres propuestas, GALERIA TONALLI, Mexico City
HONORS / AWARDS
2020 Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, National Mexican Fund for the arts, Secretaria de Cultura, Mexico.
2019 Jumex Foundation grant for the Arts, for the series Lápiz de la Naturaleza
MACO Acquisition prize Cuervo Collection
2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
2015 Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico
Bancomer Foundation support for the Arts, for the publication of her new book Gestus
2013 Nominated for the Prix Pictet Consumption Award
2010 Magnum Expression Award, Magnum Photo
Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Mexican Cultural Fund for the Arts (FONCA)
2009 Finalist Concurso Fotolibro Latinoamericano, RM
2007 Russell Grant for personal photography project, UCSD
2006-08San Diego Fellowship
2006 San Diego Artist Award, Sandiegoartist.com
Honorary Mention, Sylver Eye Center for Photography, PA
2005 stART up Award, Collector Group, MCASD
2003-04Young Creator’s Grant, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA), Mexico
Finalist Santa Fe Prize for photography, Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts
2002 First prize X Bienal of Photography, Mexico City
1995-96 Young Creators Grant, State cultural fund, Baja California
Monographs:
2018 San Pedro Garza Garcia, RM
2015 GESTUS, Editorial RM
2012 I N E D I T O, Editorial RM
You’ll never be younger than this day: Exhibition memoir edited by the Curators Ruth Estevez and Alfonso Morales, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, INBA, Mexico
2010 Maria Elvia de Hank, Editorial RM
1996 Retratos desde Tijuana (portraits form Tijuana), Grupo Desea, Mexico City
Books/ Catalogs
2017 Pulsions Urbaines, Cataog Exhibition, Tolica Editions, France
Point Counterpoint, Exhibition Catalog, MOPA, San Diego
2015 Existe lo que tiene Nombre, Exhibition Catalog, San Francisco Camerawork
Develar y Detonar, La Fabrica and Fundacion Televisa, Exhibition Catalog
Latin Fire, Exhibition Catalog, La Fabrica, Madrid
2014 Miradas Exhibition Catalog, Conaculta, Fonca, and Fundacion Codet
2013 Fotonovela: Realidade/Simulacro/Fantasia, Exhibition Catalog Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Laberinto de Miradas, Editorial RM
2008 Latinamerican Photography Collection of Anna Gamazo de Abello, RM
2006 Babel: the movie, Tashen Books
COLLECTIONS
Cuervo Collection, Mexico CIty
San Francisco MOMA
Anna Gamazo de Abello
Fundacion Televisa
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Kyoto Museum of Photography, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, MOPA
Alberta du Pont
Moises Cosio
Jason Reitman
Charleze Theron
Hunderschild Collection
Elias Fontes Collection
Stanislas Poniatowska Collection
Kenji Katori