Born 1968, Kent, OH, USA.


EDUCATION

1996
- M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, USA

1991-1992
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

1991
- B.F.A., Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2018
- Carte Blanche Olympus, Arles, France
- In the Vicinity of Narrative, MBAL, Le Locle, Switzerland
- Twelve Portraits, La Galerie Particulière, Bruxelles, Belgium

2016
- La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
- Casemore/Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2015
- Solo booth, PhotoLondon, London, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
- Todd Hido: Selection from a Survey: Khyrstyna?s World, Alex Daniels Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Todd Hido: Selections from a Survey, Casemore/Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
- Drive By Shooting, Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

2014
- Solo booth, Paris Photo, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
- Songs from the Heart, Museum of the Image, Breda, The Netherlands
- Todd Hido ? Survey, Kaune, Posnik, Spohr, Cologne, Germany
- Photobook Study: Excerpts from Silver Meadows, The PhotoBook Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows, The Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2013
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Transformer Station, The Bidwell Foundation, Cleveland, USA
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Kaune, Posnik, Spohr, Cologne, Germany
- Todd Hido, Post, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2012
- I Drive, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
- I Drive, Silencio, Paris, France
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2011
- Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Fragmented Narratives, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2010
- Househunting / Nudes, Kaune Sudendorf, Cologne, Germany


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2016
- Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California, USA
- The New Portrait, Stieglitz19, Antwerp, Belgium

2015
- The Open Road: Photographs and the American Road Trip, Aperture, traveling exhibition
- Aperture: Photographs, Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- The Perfect Measure, Micamera, Milan, Italy

2014
- Hindsight, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Home Economics, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- The Armory Show, New York, NY, USA

2013
-  And Now It?s Dark: American Night Photography, University of Nottingham, USA
- Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
- Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
- The Beauty of Darkness, Reflex Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Unknown: Pictures of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Hindsight, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Home Economics, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- The Armory Show, New York, NY, USA
- Space, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UtT, USA

2012
- Art Paris, Grand Palais, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
- America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Balls Deep, 31 Rausch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA

2011
- Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA
- Idyll, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Here, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Alec Soth?s Lonely Boy Magazine, Harper?s Books, East Hampton, New York, NY, USA
- American Psyche: A Generation in Contemporary Photography, Religare Art Gallery,
New Delhi, India
- California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, USA
- 101 Collection Route 2: Undisclosed Destination, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Dawn Till Dusk, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA, USA

2010
- Day & Night, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The View From Here, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
- US Today After? Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France
- F/Stop?, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
- From The Collection, Pier 24, Pilira Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Do I Know You, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
- Family Stage, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
- Land Use Survey, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA
- Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographics, Fotofest, Houston, TX, USA
- Know the Rules ? Then Break Them, di Rosa Collection, Napa, CA, USA
- Projection 8 Desire, New York Photo Festival, New York, NY, USA
- Face to Face, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Proof, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA


COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois , USA
Avampato Discovery Museum, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Berman Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Foto Museo, Bogata, Columbia, USA
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA
Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, New York, USA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York, USA
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Margulies Photography Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
Mellon Financial Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Metropolitan Bank and Trust, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Microsoft Art Collection
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
National Museum of Film, Photography and TV, Bradford, England
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
The New York Public Library, New York, New York, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California, USA
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio, USA
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
SEI Investments, Oaks, Pennsylvania, USA
Sierra Great Basin Collection, Reno, Nevada, USA
The Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio, USA
The Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Yerba Buena Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA

"I drive. I drive a lot.
 
Pleople ask me how I find my pictures. I tell them I drive around.
I drive and drive and I mostly don't find anything that is interesting to me. But then, something calls out. Something that looks sort of off or maybe an empty space. Sometimes it's a sad scene. I like that kind of stuff. So I take the photos and some are good. And so I keep driving and looking and taking pictures."
 
Le travail que Todd Hido a entrepris depuis près de 20 ans dresse le portrait d'une autre Amérique, loin de la vision idéalisée des success stories. Images d'un pays austère et vide, caractérisé par ses routes qui se croisent, ses impasses sombres et ses autoroutes qui ne finissent jamais ; photographies d'un réalisme exacerbé, aux paysages instables et tourmentés, le monde dépeint par Todd Hido est loin des clichés d'un rêve américain où tout serait possible.
Séquencées pour former une narration presque cinématographique - son travail est d'ailleurs souvent rapproché des oeuvres de David Lynch -, ces photographies peuvent être lues comme une tentative de recomposition des souvenirs du photographe lui-même sur sa propre adolescence, passée dans la banlieue d'une ville moyenne du Kent.
 
Images sombres d'un grand réalisme, aucune manipulation n'est opérée lors de la prise de vue, aucune lumière artificielle n'est ajoutée, seul un temps d'exposition très long permet au photographe de capter cette richesse de couleurs et cette lumière extraordinaire qui lui ont souvent valu d'être rapproché du pictorialisme du début du XXème siècle - dont pourtant émane un sentiment étrange, sombre, presque surnaturel.

Mais si le sujet de ces séries est directement ou indirectement la propre vie de Todd Hido, ses photographies sont aussi une image de ce que la communauté a construit en voulant apporter confort et stabilité à la middle class sans imaginer les problèmes collatéraux que ces banlieues allaient engendrer. Ce qui en résulte est un mélodrame collectif, dans une ambiance de désillusion et de perdition, de soirées alcoolisées, de drogues et de sexe, une virée typique dans l'Amérique sortie d'un film noir.

TODD HIDO est né en 1968 à Kent, Ohio. Il vit et travaille à San Francisco où il enseigne au California College of Art.
Ses photographies ont été exposées et sont conservées dans les plus grandes collections muséales américaines dont : le Whitney Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  Museum of Contemporary Photography de Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art.

Todd Hido est l'auteur de différents ouvrages tous très remarqués : House Hunting en 2001, Outskirts en 2002, Roaming en 2004, between the two en 2007, ou encore A Road Divided en 2010.