Yvonne Todd
Yvonne Todd is a contemporary New Zealand photographer known for her manipulation of conventional photographic techniques and genres.
Early life and education
Todd was born in Takapuna, Auckland. In the mid 1990s, she studied professional photography at Unitec Institute of Technology. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2001.Career
Todd won the inaugural Walters Prize in 2002 at age 28 for her collection of work Asthma & Eczema, which had been her final-year submission at art school.In 2014 and 2015 City Gallery Wellington mounted a major survey of her works Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology, including over 150 pieces, curated by Robert Leonard.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Dead Starlets Assoc, IMA, Brisbane
- Wall of Seahorsel, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
- Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology, City Gallery Wellington Barnacles – Yvonne Todd, Tauranga Art Gallery
Group exhibitions
Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington Mixed-up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery- Busan Biennale, Republic of Korea Blood, in its Various Forms at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Fotofestival, Mannheim, Germany
- 17th Biennale of Sydney Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery
- Edinburgh Art Festival
Publications
- Robert Leonard, Dead Starlets Assoc, Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2007..
- Robert Leonard, Creamy Psychology, Wellington: City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2014..