Yvonne Venegas
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    • San Pedro Garza Garcia 2013-2017
    • Gestus 2010-2013
    • Maria Elvia de Hank 2006-2010
    • Inedito 2006
    • The Most Beautiful Brides of Baja California 2000-2004
    • El Tiempo Que Pasamos Juntas 1996-1998
    • Portraits from Tijuana 1994-1996
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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