Todd Hido
(Kent, Ohio, 1968 - )
American
Describing his interest in pictures like Untitled (#2421) Diptych, Todd Hido has said “I take photographs of houses at night because I wonder about the families inside them. I wonder about how people live, and the act of taking that photograph is a meditation.” To keep this meditation open for viewers to participate in, the photographer does not show people in his pictures, leaving light coming through windows as the only sign of activity. Though he is based in San Francisco, Hido grew up in Kent and often returns to Ohio, where he took this pair of pictures of the same house at different times of year.
Hido’s photographs are made during long, solitary drives. The main subject of his work is the American urban and suburban landscape, often photographed at night. Born in Kent, Ohio in 1968, Hido received his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. In 1996, he earned his M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Hido has been the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Visual Arts Award, and the Barclay Simpson Award. His photographs have been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Elephant and FOAM. His work is held in the permanent collections of many noted public and private collections including the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
San Francisco, California
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