Yvonne Todd

(b.1973, Auckland, New Zealand, lives in Auckland)

Yvonne Todd is an artist working with photography. Her work expounds a distinctively strong, if unnerving, view of New Zealanders and their relationship to global popular culture. She creates “revised” photographic conventions drawn from advertising imagery, stock photography, catalogues, brochures, corporate portraits, mass-market fiction, religious cults, soap operas, show business, and the glimpses and fragments that resonate in memory and imagination. Todd holds a Fine Art degree from The University of Auckland.

She has exhibited widely since 1997. Solo shows include: 65% Seahorsel, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, 2012; Wall of Seahorsel, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia, 2012; Self Medicating: Works by Yvonne Todd, Calder & Lawson Gallery, The University of Waikato, 2011; Iris Paste, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, 2010; Pervasively Yours, The Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, 2009; Blood in its Various Forms (Incorporating Meat & Liquor), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2006. Her work was included in major exhibitions such as: Feminism Never Happened, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2010; Körpermuster/Body Patterns, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, 2009; The 2006 Busan Biennale, Republic of Korea.