Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (1982); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990); J. Paul Getty Museum (2007); MAPFRE Foudation, Madrid (2009); Photography Museum Winterthur (2009); and Barbican Art Gallery (2012), among others. Iturbide is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award; the Grand Prize Mois de la Photo, Paris; a Guggenheim Fellowship; the Hugo Erfurth Award, Leverkusen, Germany; the International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan; the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Award, Arles; the Hasselblad Award; the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in Mexico City; an honorary degree in photography from Columbia College Chicago; and an honorary Doctorate of Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.