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yvenegas@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Yvonne Venegas is a graduate of the certification program at the International Center of Photography in New York and is currently pursuing her MFA at University of California San Diego. In New York she assisted photographers such as Dana Lixenberg, Bruce Weber and Juergen Teller. She has shown her work individually and in group shows throughout the US, Mexico, Spain, France, Russia, England, Poland and Canada, including the traveling show From Baja to Vancouver, hosted by the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD), the Wattis Center in San Francisco and Vancouver Art Gallery, the Exhibition Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Innocence is Questionable at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. She has shown individually in Casa de America (as part of Photoespaña-04) in Madrid, Diaz Contemporary Gallery in Toronto, EDS Gallery in Mexico City and the Museé a Beaux Arts, of Orleáns, France.
She was awarded top honors for the series The most Beautiful Brides of Baja California at the prestigious, tenth annual Bienal de Fotografía, organized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and more recently received the stART up Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego as well as the San Diego Art Prize. Her work is part of private and public collections in Japan, US and Mexico, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, Fundación Televisa and Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City.
Research Interests:
Her photographic work explores issues of class, gender and personal representation in accordance to a participation in a specific class structure. She lives and works in the Tijuana/ San Diego border.
Honors and Awards:
2007 San Diego Art Prize, San Diego, Ca.
2006 stART up Award, MCASD
2006-07 San Diego Fellowship, UC San Diego
2005 Honorary Mention Silver Eye Center fot Photography Fellowship, Pittsburgh
2003 Young 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
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