Yvonne Todd

Yvonne Todd (born 1973) 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 (New Zealand's largest contemporary art 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.

Solo exhibitions

 * Dead Starlets Assoc, IMA, Brisbane (2007)
 * Wall of Seahorsel, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2012–2013)
 * Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology, City Gallery Wellington (2014–2015)
 * Barnacles – Yvonne Todd, Tauranga Art Gallery (2016)

Group exhibitions

 * Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington (2004)
 * Mixed-up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery (2005)
 * Busan Biennale, Republic of Korea (2006)
 * Blood, in its Various Forms at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2007)
 * Fotofestival, Mannheim, Germany (2009)
 * 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010)
 * Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, National Gallery of Victoria and Queensland Art Gallery (2010)
 * Edinburgh Art Festival (2014)

Publications

 * Robert Leonard (ed), Dead Starlets Assoc, Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2007. ISBN 9781875792580
 * Robert Leonard (ed), Creamy Psychology, Wellington: City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780864739773

Further information

 * Robert Leonard and Janita Craw, Mixed-up Childhood, Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2005. ISBN 0864632622
 * Lara Strongman (ed), Contemporary New Zealand photographers, Auckland: Mountain View Pub, 2005. ISBN 0473102803
 * David Eggleton, Into the light : a history of New Zealand photography, Nelson: Craig Potton, 2006. ISBN 9781877333545
 * Maud Page, Wystan Curnow, et al., Unnerved : the New Zealand project, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2010. ISBN 9781921503115