2260, Todd Hido
1928a, Todd Hido
1913, Todd Hido
1637, Todd HidoBORN
1968
Kent, OH
EDUCATION
1996
M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991-1992
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1991
B.F.A., Tufts University, Medford, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
(http://www.wirtzgallery.com/bios/bio_hido_frame.html)
I have chosen Todd Hido and his work on foreclosed homes. Even though Hido specifically seeks out foreclosed homes, the presence that his photographs gives of the homes is very similar to what I want to achieve with my own photographs. The main difference between what Hido is doing and what I want to portray is the foreclosed vs. the abandoned. I have still chosen this particular body of work because the the questions that people start to ask about the homes when looking at Hido's photographs.
"Hido’s images contain traces and impressions of lives previously having been lived in the now-empty homes. His potent and surreal photographs of empty spaces evoke a longing for the time when things were better in those homes. What went wrong? Who used to lived there?"
(Hido, Todd. Witness Number Seven. Vol. First. Portland: Nazraeli, 2009. Print.)
"Hido doesn't dwell on the sociological, however: his interest, indicated by the care with which he modulates light and color, lies in the haunting quality of these spaces. In a sense, the photographs duplicate the banks' seizure of the houses by repossessing them in the name of art."
(Grundberg, Andy. House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido, Artforum, May 1998.)
Artist website:
http://www.toddhido.com/Gallery Representation:
Interview:
(Lauren, I am not sure what exactly you were looking for with the biography. Artist biographies have always been more lists than anything of substance. I will ask you in our meeting on Thursday but just wanted to let you know that I am a little stumped on what exactly it is you are looking in regards to the biography)
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