# Yto Barrada

Yto Barrada (Parigi, 1971) è una fotografa e artista marocchina con cittadinanza francese.

## Biografia

Ha studiato storia e scienze politiche a Sorbona e successivamente al Centro Internazionale di Fotografia di New York. Lavora con il video, la fotografia e la scultura. Ha partecipato a mostre ad Art Dubai, al Museo Fowler (Los Angeles), al MoMA (San Francisco e New York), al Jeu de Paume (Parigi), e alla Biennale di Venezia.
Yto Barrada è direttrice artistica e cofondatrice della Cinémathèque di Tanger con Cyriac Auriol.

## Premi

* Borsa di studio Ellen Auerbach, Accademia D'Arte, Berlino, Germania, 2006
* Finalista del Deutsche Borse Prize, 2006
* Candidata al Rolex Award, 2006

## Esposizioni

2011
* Dream It - Achieve It - Leave It, Galerie Polaris, Parigi
* Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
* Riffs, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlino
* Women Artists in the Collection of the National Modern Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, Parigi
* 10° Sharjah Biennial , Emirati Arabi Uniti
* Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility, The Kitchen, New York City, NY
* VidéoStudio: New Work from France, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
* Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, NY
2010
* Play, Galleria Sfeir Semler, Beirut, Libano
* Uneven Geographies, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Inghilterra
* Centre de la Photographie Ginevra
* Une proposition modeste, L'appartement 22, Rabat
* Studio Harlem New York
* Riso museo d'arte contemporanea di Sicilia, Italia
* Zukunft der Tradition, Tradition der Zukunft – Contemporary, Haus der Kunst, Munich
* BREAKING NEWS. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa - Ex Ospedale Sant'Agostino, Modena
2009
* Dress Codes, International Center of Photography, New York City
* Indicated by Signs, Gemeinschaftsausstellung, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
* Disorientation II, Abu Dhabi
* MAC/VAL Musée d'Art Contemporain Val-de-Marne
* AIM Festival Marrakesh
* Harn Museum of Art Florida Project Europa
* Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Pompidou, Parigi
* San Francisco MoMA, USA
* Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2008
* Passageworks, curated by Tara Mc Dowell, MOMA San Francisco, USA
* Éclats de frontières, Frac P.A.C.A Marseille, Francia
* Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germania
* Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
* Réflechir le Monde, Centrale Electrique, Bruxelles
* Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
* Snap judgements, Memphis Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, USA
* University of California Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
* Mediterraneo 2008, Perna Foundation, Ravello
2007
* Biennale di Venezia
* Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
* Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
* Yto Barrada - Iris Tingitana, Galerie Polaris, Parigi
* Yto Barrada - Iris Tingitana, Galerie of Marseille, Marseille
2006
* Ellen Auerbach Award, Berlino
* Indicated by Signs, Gemeinschaftsausstellung, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
* A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project, The Kitchen, New York City, NY
2005
* Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo
* Premieres, MoMA, New York
* Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Warwick
* Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2004
* A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Parigi
2003
* Gran royal Turismo ,Galerie Polaris, Parigi
2002
* In Capital Letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2001
* Galerie Delacroix, Tangier

## Filmografia

* My family and other animals (in progress), 2010
* Beau geste, 16mm, 2009
* The Botanist, 21 min, 2007
* La Contrebandière, 18 min, 2005
* Le Magicien, 18 min, 2003
* Call Box (Ne quittez pas), 23 min, 1998