Yolanda Andrade
Yolanda Andrade was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, on May 22, 1950.
She studied photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. From 1976 to 1977. She continued with photographic studies and workshops.
In 1987 she obtained her first recognition with the scholarship of Producción de la Bienal de Fotografía, summoned by the INBA. In 1994 she won an internship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, with head office in New York, N.Y. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte del FONCA since 1993. In the year 2000 she obtained the scholarship of the Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Cultural del FONCA, for the coedition of the book Pasión Mexicana.
Publications
She has published the following books of her black and white photographs:
Los velos transparentes, las transparencies veladas, 1988, prologue by Carlos Monsiváis
Pasión mexicana/Mexican Passion, 2002, text by North American writer K. Mitchell Snow.
Melodrama barroco, 2007, text by Rosina Conde.
Catalogue Fragmentos, fotografías en color, 2008, by the Secretaría de Hacienda/Museo del Arzobispado, with texts by curator Rafael Pérez y Pérez and Irving Domínguez.
Visiones Paralelas, 2009, as part of the exhibition at Alianza Francesa de Polanco
A tráves del Cristal, 2009, as part of the collection Luz Portátil, Editorial Artes de México.
Ese extraño mundo de las imágenes, 2009, limited edition of 25 copies.
Catalogue 45 miradas mexicanas, 2007, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
Conversaciones con fotógrafos mexicanos, 2007, Claudi Carreras. Publishing Gustavo Gili, Mexico City.
The Theatre of the Face, Portrait Photography Since 1900, 2007, Max Kozoloff, Pahido Press Limited, London, England.
Individual recent exhibitions:
2007 - Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Melodrama barroco, Mexico City
2007 - Faro Milpa Alta, Figuras y Artificios, Pueblo de San Antonio Tecomitl, Mexico City
2007 - Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, Fragmentos, Mexico City
2008 - Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, INBA, Fragmentos, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
2008 - Fábrica de Imágenes, Figuras y artificios II, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
2008 - Alianza Francesa de Polanco, Visiones paralelas, Mexico City
2009 2009 Casa Escorza, Visiones paralelas, Guadalajara, Jalsico, Mexico
