Yvonne Todd

Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1973.

BFA, University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand (2001)
Professional Photography, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand (1994, 1995)

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Choux: Still Lifes, 2006-2018’, Sydney, Australia
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Tuba’, Wellington, New Zealand

2017

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Steady Junction’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Vermillion’, Wellington, New Zealand
Ramp Gallery, ‘Barnacles’, Hamilton, New Zealand

2016

Tauranga Art Gallery, ‘Barnacles’, Tauranga, New Zealand
Tauranga Art Gallery, ‘Fictitious Bodies: Costume in Yvonne Todd’s Photography’, Tauranga, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Spiral Franchise’, Auckland, New Zealand

2015

Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Mohair’, Wellington, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Ethical Minorities (Vegans) and New Work’, Auckland, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, ‘Palumbo and Jelee, Big Pictures’, Cincinnati, OH, USA
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Creamy Psychology’, Wellington, New Zealand

2014

Waikato Museum, ‘Fancy Dress: Portraits by Gilbert Melrose’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Honest Places’, Wellington, New Zealand

2013

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Gentle Disco’, Auckland, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Mood Sandwich’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Your Hotel Brain’, Christchurch, New Zealand

2012

Centre for Contemporary Photography, ‘Wall of Seahorsel’, Melbourne, Australia
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Wall of Seahorsel’, Dunedin, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Seahorsel Subset’, Wellington, New Zealand
Ryan Renshaw Gallery, ’65% Seahorsel’, Brisbane, Australia

2011

Calder and Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato, ‘Yvonne Todd: Self-Medicating’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘The Sapphire Aluminium Corp.’, Wellington, New Zealand

2010

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Iris Paste’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Sets and Subsets’, Wellington, New Zealand

2009

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘The Wall of Man’, Auckland, New Zealand
Sergeant Galery, ‘Pervasively Yours’, Whanganui, New Zealand

2008

Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Mauve Reduction’, Wellington, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Dawn of Gland’, Auckland, New Zealand

2007

Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘The Lamb’s Book of Life’, Wellington, New Zealand
Institute of Modern Art, ‘Blood, in its Various Forms’, Brisbane, Australia

2006

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Blood, in its Various Forms’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Meat & Liquor’, Wellington, New Zealand

2005

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Vagrants’ Reception Centre’, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘11 Colour Plates’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘The Bone of Jupiter’, Wellington, New Zealand

2003

Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘The Book of Martha’, Wellington, New Zealand

2002

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Bellevue’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Sea of Tranquility’, Wellington, New Zealand

2001

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Asthma & Eczema’, Auckland, New Zealand

2000

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Lace 2’, Auckland, New Zealand

1999

Fiat Lux, ‘The Crisis’, Auckland, New Zealand

1998

Rm3, ‘Fleshtone’, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

Teststrip, ‘Cabin Fever’, Auckland, New Zealand

Group Exhibitions

2017

Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Your Hotel Brain’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Performance Portraits’, Auckland, New Zealand

2016

Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Bad Hair Day’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Personal Messages’, Wellington, New Zealand
The Dowse Art Museum, ‘Suburban Dreams’, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Beasts’, Christchurch, New Zealand

2015

Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘Loud!’, Sydney, Australia
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Let’s Go’, Wellington, New Zealand

2014

Auckland Art Gallery, ‘The Social Life of Things’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘I Like Girls’, Wellington, New Zealand
City Art Centre, ‘Where Do I End and You Begin’, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2013

Gus Fisher Gallery, ‘A Different View: Artists Address Pornography’, Auckland, New Zealand
Suter Art Gallery, ‘Interior’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ’Nga Toi’, Wellington, New Zealand
Neon Parc, ‘Drunk vs Stoned XIII’, Melbourne, Australia

2012

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Atoms’, Auckland, New Zealand
Te Manama, ‘Now and Then: Enduring and Developing Themes in Contemporary New Zealand Photography’, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Agamemnon’, Auckland, New Zealand

2011

Objectspace, ‘Eyecatch: Jewellery and Photography’, Auckland, New Zealand
B431 Projectspace, ‘Scheinpflug Principle: Large-Format photography from Elam 1976-2012’, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘What I Did Last Summer’, Wellington, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘For Oscar’, Wellington, New Zealand
Sugarcane Project Space, ‘Animal Spirits’, Stockholm, Sweden

2010

17th Biennale of Sydney, ‘ THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, Sydney, Australia
Gus Fisher Gallery, ‘ Top Ten: New Acquisitions for the University of Auckland Art Collection’, Auckland, New Zealand
Queensland Art Gallery, ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’, Brisbane, Australia, travelled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Graham’, Auckland, New Zealand
Institute of Modern Art, ‘Feminism Never Happened’, Brisbane, Australia

2009

Kunsthalle Mannheim, ‘Körpermuster/Body Patterns’, Mannheim, Germany
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Kind of Blue’, Dunedin, New Zealand
QCA Gallery, ‘From the Depths of Suburbia’, Brisbane, Australia, Travelled to Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Feelings’, Auckland, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Am I Scared, Boy (Eh)’, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2008

Waikato Museum, ‘Existence: Life According to Art’, Hamilton, New Zealand

2007

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Crater of Phlox’, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Likeness and Character’, Auckland, New Zealand
Suter Art Gallery, ‘Pakeha Now!’, Nelson, New Zealand

2006

Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Break:Construct’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Suter Art Gallery, ‘Recovered Memory’, Nelson, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Hotpot’, Auckland, New Zealand
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, ‘High Tide: New Currents in Art from New Zealand and Australia’, Warsaw, Poland, Travelled to Contemporary Art Centre, Vinius, Lithuania

2005

Para/Site Art Space, ‘Desire’, Hong Kong
Sergeant Gallery, ‘Return of the Hand’, Whanganui, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Small World, Big Town’, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Snake Oil’, Auckland, New Zealand
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ‘World Famous in New Zealand’, Canberra, Australia
St Paul St, ‘High Chair’, Auckland, New Zealand
Artspace, ‘Free New Zealand Art’, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelled to Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Peter McLeavey Gallery, ‘Made in New Zealand’, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Mixed Up Childhood’, Auckland, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Four Works by Four Artists’, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ‘Toi Te Papa Art of The Nation: 1940 to Today’, Wellington, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Lights > Camera > Action: Critical Moments from the Govett-Brewster Collections 1969-2004’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Prospect’, Wellington, New Zealand

2003

Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Pressing Flesh’, Auckland, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Cream and Sugar’, Auckland, New Zealand
Kunstverein Langenhagen, ’The Sky’s The Limit’, Langenhagen, Germany
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ‘Striking Poses: New Zealand Portrait Photography’, Wellington
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Good Sport’, Auckland, New Zealand

2002

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Break’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Northart Gallery, ‘Second Exposure: Contemporary Art In North Shore City’, Auckland, New Zealand
Rm 401, Flora and Fauna: New Aspects of Landscape’, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, Walters Prize Exhibition 2002, Auckland, New Zealand
Adam Art Gallery, ‘Slow Release: Recent Photography from New Zealand’, Wellington, New Zealand, Travelled to Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2001

Artspace, ‘After Killeen: Social Observation in Recent Art’, Auckland, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Wastecare’, Auckland, New Zealand
Adam Art Gallery, ‘Alive!: Still Life into the Twenty-First Century’, Wellington, New Zealand
Manawatu Art Gallery, ‘The Way We Were: Fiat Lux Retrospective’, Palmerston North, New Zealand

2000

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘In Glorious Dreams: New Art by Women’, New Plymouth, New Zealand

1999

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Wonderlands: Contemporary New Zealand Art’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Rm3, ‘We Really Care’, Auckland, New Zealand
Artspace, ‘Only the Lonely’, Auckland, New Zealand
Fiat Lux, ‘Sunnynook’, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelled to The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand

1998

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Leap of Faith: Contemporary New Zealand Art’, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Prizes

Walters Prize, New Zealand (2002)