TODD HIDO (b. 1968, Kent, OH)

Todd Hido: Cracked Trees (One Picture Book #59), 2009

Limited Edition Book w/ SIGNED Original Color Photograph

Special Limited Edition of 500 copies photo book. Hand-numbered, 'AP/500' (Artist's Proof aside from the regular edition of 500) with one SIGNED original color C-Print, 'Untitled, 2009' (2-7/8" x 4-3/8", image below). Photograph is signed on verso in black marker by Todd Hido and hinged onto the final page, as published. Book has paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued, 16 pp., with 4 four-color plates. First Edition, 2009. 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. BRAND NEW / Mint condition.

In the winter of 2009, Todd Hido was approached by elementary school art instructor Wilhelm Matthies about using his photographs in class for the students to work from as a source of inspiration for some of their own exercises. The resulting book of four watercolors by 3rd grade students shows some of the remarkable paintings generated by the class. Each copy of the book contains 4 reproductions of watercolors, and one original signed photograph by Todd Hido.

Most of Todd Hido’s photographs of suburban landscapes are taken during solitary, long drives. The main subject of his work is the quality of natural and artificial light in the American landscape, as in reflected sunrays or the illumination of a television pouring from an anonymous window. Hido takes his pictures in a “fairly undirected way”, he says, but edits his negatives together and manipulates them until he produces an image that represents his encounter with a place. In describing his process, Hido said, “I shoot sort of like a documentarian, but I print like a painter.” He has also produced a number of interior shots featuring human figures, his models including his wife and former girlfriends.

Favoring dramatic light conditions, Todd Hido portrays his subject matter when vivid evening skies or overcast weather conditions add a distinct sense of sentimentality. Employing a pictorial language that unfolds slowly picture by picture, the effect is astonishingly cinematic. Forlorn roads lose themselves in aimless terrains, while heavy clouds hover above. Barren fields and edges of dark pine forests underline the simplicity of the scenery, the emergence of occasional power lines or telephone poles serves as theatrical effect. An overall dark mood settles deep into the landscape, reinforced by the remnants of recent showers. Sometimes captured from the driver's seat through a rainy windshield, each work has a hint of the surreal.

Drawn into this moody scenery, the viewer, alongside the artist, takes on the role of a lone traveler, who without map or compass is incited to contemplate what stretches endlessly ahead. While this Romantic concept of experiencing nature through the boundless emotional submission might lead one's associative thoughts as far back as the works of Caspar David Friedrich or members of the Hudson River School, Hido's process is unquestionably modern.

Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France.

Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
'Suburbia: Building the American Dream' (group exhibition), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain (3/3 - 9/8)

2023
'Todd Hido: The End Sends Advance Warning', Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
'Walking Through the Darkness' (group exhibition), Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Australia

2022
'Ways of Unseeing in Photography' (group exhibition), The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
'Todd Hido: The Black Mechanism', Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
'Todd Hido: The Poetry of Darkness', UK Art Museum, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

2019
'Todd Hido: Light From Within', Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
'Todd Hido: Bright Black World', Casemore Kirkeby,  San Francisco, CA

2018
'This Side of Paradise: Narrative, Cinema and Suburbia in the Work of Miles Aldridge and Todd Hido', Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
'Todd Hido: Bright Black World', Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
'Todd Hido: Bright Black World', Reflex Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Todd Hido: La Lumiere Sombre', Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France
'The House Imaginary' (group exhibition), San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) San Jose, CA
'Todd Hido: In the Vicinity of Narrative', Musée des beaux-arts du Le Locle (MBAL), Le Locle, Switzerland

2016
'Todd Hido: Intimate Distance', Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA
'Todd Hido: Intimate Distance', La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
'The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip', (group exhibition),  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

2015
'Todd Hido: Selections from a Survey - Khrystyna's World', Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Todd Hido: Selections from a Survey', Casemore Kirby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Todd Hido', Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

2014
'Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows', Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
'Todd Hido: Survey', Kaune Contemporary, Cologne, Germany
'Todd Hido', Reflex Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Todd Hido', Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2013
'Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows', Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
'Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows', Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows', Kaune, Posnik, Spohr, Cologne, Germany
'Todd Hido', Post, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

'Todd Hido: I Drive...', La galerie particulière, Paris, France
'Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011
'Presence/Absence' (group exhibition), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
'The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment' (group exhibition), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
'Todd Hido: A Road Divided', Kaune/Sudendorf Gallery, Köln, Germany
'Todd Hido: Fragmented Narratives', Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2010
'Whatever Was Splendid' (group exhibition), FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Vine Street Studios, Houston, TX
'State of Mind: A California Invitational' (group exhibition), Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego, CA
'Todd Hido: House Hunting / Nudes', Kaune/Sudendorf Gallery, Köln, Germany
'An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever' (group exhibition), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2009
'Todd Hido: A Road Divided', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Todd Hido: A Road Divided', Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2008
'Todd Hido: Between the Two', Yours Gallery, Warszawa, Poland
'Todd Hido: A Road Divided', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Beyond the Backyard' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, IL 

2007
'CCA Photography Centennial Exhibition' (group exhibition), California College of the Arts (CCA), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
'A New American Portrait' (group exhibition), Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
'the BIG picture' (group exhibition), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
'Spectacular City - Architekturfotografie' (group exhibition), NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Todd Hido: Between the Two', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
'Todd Hido', Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'PRC | POV: Photography Now and the Next 30 Years' (group exhibition), Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
'Spectacular City, Photographing the Future' (group exhibition), Netherlands Architecture Institut (NAI), Rotterdam, Netherlands
'Todd Hido: Unfinished Narratives', The Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW), Seattle, WA
'I Love the Burbs' (group exhibition), Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2005
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
'Todd Hido: Roaming', G Fine Art, Washington, DC
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Todd Hido: Roaming - New Landscapes', Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
'Todd Hido', Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
'Todd Hido', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Todd Hido', Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002
'House Hunting: Photographs by Todd Hido', The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
'Todd Hido: Open House', Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
'Todd Hido: Roaming', Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
'Todd Hido', 3A Garage, San Francisco, CA
'Todd Hido', Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001
'Todd Hido: New Photographs', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Todd Hido', Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
'Todd Hido: House Hunting', Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA
Madison Art Center, WI
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), CA
Toledo Museum of Art, OH

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