Yvonne Venegas

Photographer Yvonne Venegas was born in Long Beach, California, and raised in the city of Tijuana. She studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, and received an MA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She has since assisted the photographers Juergen Teller, Bruce Weber and Dana Lixenberg as well as working as a freelance photographer for the New York Times. Yvonne was awarded the prestigious Magnum Expression Photography Award in 2010 and has work in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.