Yolanda Andrade / Photographer CV

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Born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, May 22, 1950.

She studied photography at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. (1976-1977).

GRANTS:

Received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to pursue her photographic project on Mexico City (1994).

In 1994 she became a Fellow of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, FONCA, Mexico City.

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY:

Exhibits USA, Sheldon Fine Arts Center, St. Louis, MO (2004).

Exhibits USA, El Museo Latino, Omaha, Nebraska (2004)

Visual Studies Workshop, Andrea Frank Fellowship, Rochester, N. Y. (2004).

OTHER ACTITIVITIES:

She has traveled to New York City, Las Vegas, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Beijing, and Dehli, Calcutta, Agra, Jaipur, Kajuraho, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar and Udaipur in India to pursue her project on the relationship of the experience of traveling with memory, time and photography.

BOOKS:

She has published three books of her b&w photographs: Los Velos Transparentes, las Transparencias Veladas (1988), Mexican Passion/Pasión Mexicana (2002) and Melodrama barroco (2007), as well as the following books of her color work: Fragmentos, Visiones paralelas and El color del cristal (2008) and Las Vegas, Artificio y Neón (2013). She has also published independently the books ese extraño mundo de las imágenes (2009), Diario de Varanasi y Calcuta (2011), Una Mexicana en Paris (2012).





RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

One-woman shows

2014 Museum Tambo Quirquincho, México, Escenas del teatro urbano urbano [Mexican Urban Theater], FONCA-Conaculta/SRE/Mexican Embassy in Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia.

Kunstuitleen, Amstelven, Mexican Still Life, SRE/Mexican Embassy in Holland/FONCA-Conaculta/ GRID Photo Festival, Amsterdam, Holland.

Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Escenas del teatro urbano [Mexican Urban Theater], SRE/Mexican Embassy in Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2016 Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photographic Center, Cuando empieza la noche [When Night Starts], Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Group shows

2013 The Wittliff Collections, México lindo, Beautiful Mexico, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Urbes mutantes, 1941-2012, Fotografía Latinoamericana, Bogotá, Colombia.

Museo del Barrio, superreal: alternative realities in photography and video,
Nueva York, NY

2014 Museo Nacional de Arte, El hombre al desnudo, INBA, México, D. F.

SouthEast Museum of Photography, Mexican Women Photographers, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL USA.

2015 CentroCentro Cibeles, Latin Fire, Otras fotografías de un continente, Photo España, Madrid, España.

PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLLECTIONS:

Her photographs are in the collections of Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), California Museum of Photography (Riverside, CA), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona Beach, FLA), Southwestern and Mexican Photography (Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos TX), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Museo de El Barrio (New York City), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China) and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, among others.