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Flor Garduño

Flor Garduño grew up in Mexico City and studied visual arts at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos (UNAM). She left school early to work as a darkroom assistant for Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002), the most influential Mexican photographer of the 20th century. In 1981, she began working for the Secretariat of Public Education and traveled to rural villages throughout Mexico with a team of photographers and artists seeking subjects to illustrate primary school textbooks for indigenous communities. These experiences gave Garduño the opportunity to learn about rural Mexico, especially the plight of indigenous peoples, and helped hone her own unique style. Today she is known for her haunting images of native peoples throughout the Americas, along with her symbolic nudes and still-lifes.

Garduño had her first one-person exhibition in 1982 at the Galeria José Clemente Orozco in Mexico City and has become a renowned photographer in the intervening years. She has published several books of photography including Magia del Juego Eterno (The Magic of the Eternal Game) (1985), Bestiarium (1987), Witnesses of Time (1992), Mummenschanz (1996), Flor (2001), Inner Light (2002), Silent Natures (2005), and Trilogy (2010).

Flor Garduño’s work is in the permanent collections of several public institutions including: The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany; and many other public and private collections.

www.florgarduno.com/‎