Yvonne Venegas b.1970 raised in Tijuana, graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York and received her MFA at the University of California San Diego in 2009. Through long-term documentary style projects Yvonne explores ideas of gender, class, and the practice of photography as a subject of study. Recently her practice has extended to other expressions, she is including drawing and some tri-dimensional pieces that enter in dialogue to her projects. Venegas has shown her work individually and in group shows throughout the Mexico, US, Canada, Italy, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, Poland and Russia, including the individual shows at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Casa de America in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) Mexico City, Diaz Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and Baxter, New York and The Fotografia Europea festival 2024 in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
In 2010 she received the Magnum expression Award, given by Magnum Photos, as well as the National Creators Grant by the Mexican Cultural and Arts Fund (FONCA) in two terms, and in 2016 she received the Guggenheim Fellowship for her project San Pedro Garza Garcia. In 2020 she received the Jumex Grant and the Cuervo Acquisition prize to continue her project El lapiz de la Naturaleza, a series of portraits dedicated to the study of pose. She received the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant for her project Gestures of Survival, which is a subjective documentary photographic project that explored the landscapes and people around the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).
Her work is part of collections in the US, Mexico, Spain and France, and she has published five monographs Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inedito (2012), Gestus (2015), San Pedro Garza Garcia (2019), and The Pencil of Nature all by RM Editorial, Barcelona. Yvonne lives and works in Mexico City
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