Born 1970
In Long Beach,
Ca, Raised
In Tijuana
Based In
Mexico City

Yvonne graduated from the International
Center of Photography in New York and re-
ceived her MFA at University of California
San Diego in 2009. She has shown her work
individually and in group shows throughout
the Mexico, US, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Spain,
France, Poland and Russia, including the in-
dividual shows at Shoshana Wayne Gallery,
Santa Monica, Casa de America in Madrid,
the Museum of Contemporary Art San Die-
go, University Museum of contemporary
Art (MUAC) Mexico City, Diaz Contem-
porary Gallery in Toronto and Baxter, New
York.
In 2010 she received the Magnum ex-
pression Award, given by Magnum Photos,
as well as the National Creators Grant by
the Mexican Cultural and Arts Fund (FON-
CA) in two terms, and in 2016 she received
the Guggenheim Fellowship for her pro-
ject 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 current project Mar de Cortes,
which is a subjective documentary photo-
graphic project to be produced between
2021/23.
Her work is part of collections in the
US, Mexico and France, including the per-
manent collection of the SF Moma, The
Musuem of Photographic Arts San Diego,
the Museum of Contemporary art San Die-
go, Haudenschild Collection, Fundación
Televisa, Centro de la Imagen Mexico, Moi-
ses Cosio, Alumnos 47, Jason Reitman, and
Anna Gamazo de Abello among others.
She has published four monographs
Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inedito (2012),
Gestus (2015) and San Pedro Garza Garcia
(2019), all by RM Editorial, Barcelona.
Yvonne lives and works in Mexico City
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