Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Graciela Iturbide began to study film-making in the late 1960s at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos. While assisting Manuel Alvarez Bravo in the early 1970s, she studied photography. Traveling to Europe around this time, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, who became a significant influence on her work. In 1978 she became a founding member of the Mexican Council of Photography.
Graciela Iturbide’s work is a mixture of history, lyricism and portraiture. The subtle yet powerful photographs blend the essence of the cultures of her native Mexico with her own personal vision and love of poetry. Her photographs combine the story of a culture in transition with issues of identity, diversity, and selfhood. Iturbide has studied the indigenous society of Mexico in different states offering photos of sublime magic realism. Iturbide explores ways to articulate the “voice” of Mexico with an intricate interweaving of histories and practices. “My pictures are a sort of travel diary… As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things… And in the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.” – Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the most influential black and white photographers in the world. A recipient of the 2008 Hasselblad award, her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY; Tate Modern, London, UK; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA to name only a few. Her many honors include the Lucie Award (2010); National Prize of Sciences and Arts, Mexico City (2009); Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award (2008); Legacy Award from the Smithsonian Latino Center (2007); Hugo Erfurth Award (1989); and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1988). She continues to live and work in Mexico.
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Graciela IturbideUntitled, Santa Gertrudis, South Texas, 2002Pigment print on Hahnemuhle watercolor paper.33 x 33 in
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Graciela IturbideSin Título (Pájaro y Abrigo) Khajuraho, India, 1998Silver Gelatin Print20 x 16"
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Graciela IturbideCaballito para Gerszo Lafayette, Louisiana, 1997Silver Gelatin Print14 x 11"
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Graciela IturbideFrancisco Toledo (Bat), 1995Silver Gelatin Print13.9 x 10.9"
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Graciela IturbideFrancisco Toledo and Xolo, Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1995Silver Gelatin Print14 x 11"
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Graciela IturbideFrancisco Toledo with Outlined Gun, 1995Silver Gelatin Print9.9 x 7.9 "
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Graciela IturbideMagnolia I Juchitán, México, 1986Silver Gelatin Print20 x 16 in
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Graciela IturbideRosario, Cristina y Liza, White Fence, East L.A., 1986Silver Gelatin Print20 x 16 in
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Graciela IturbideEl Señor de los Pájaros Nayarit, México, 1984Silver Gelatin Print16 x 20"
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Graciela IturbideAutorretrato con los Indios Seris Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979Silver Gelatin Print20 x 16"
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Graciela IturbideMujeres Seris, Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979Silver Gelatin Print16 x 20"
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Graciela IturbideNuestra Señora de las Iguanas, 1979Silver Gelatin Print20 x 16"
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Graciela IturbideAutorretrato en Mi Casa México D.F., México, 1974Gelatin silver print14 x 11"
35.6 x 27.9 cm
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Glasstire Top Five: The Pastoral and the Celestial May 2, 2024
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Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs Capture Mexico and Latinos in the U.S.
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The Pastoral and the Celestial
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Featured Show: The Pastoral and the Celestial
Arts & Culture Texas Magazine , March 1, 2024
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Ruiz-Healy Art's 2023 Year In Review
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Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide wins lifetime achievement award
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ArtNexus Reviews, Graciela Iturbide- Fondation Cartier
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Graciela Iturbide on the Democratic Nature of Photography
Charlotte Jansen, Frieze, May 5, 2022
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Graciela Iturbide on grief, joy and the power of birds
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San Antonio’s arts community reflects on the milestones of another challenging year
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Ruiz-Healy Art Celebrates its Quinceañera
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Graciela Iturbide's Art of Seeing Mexico
Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, May 30, 2019
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Graciela Iturbide MFA Boston: from slaughter to surrealism
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Graciela Iturbide's Mexico
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Iconic Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide Comes to Light in 'A Lens to See'
Marco Aquino, San Antonio Current, September 7, 2016
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McNay Print Fair
May 3 - 5, 2024 San AntonioRuiz Healy Art is delighted to participate in the McNay Print Fair , hosted by the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, one of the sole events of its...Read more -
The Pastoral and the Celestial
March 20 - May 18, 2024 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to present The Pastoral and the Celestial, opening on Wednesday, March 20th, with an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at our San Antonio gallery. The Pastoral and the Celestial will be on view through May 18th, 2024. The exhibit brings together Richard 'Ricky' Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Graciela Iturbide, Nicolas Leiva, and Cecilia Paredes in a celebration of painting, photography, and ceramics, inviting the viewer into a realm where the boundaries between the tangible and the imagined blur.Read more -
McNay Print Fair
May 6 - 7, 2023 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is thrilled to participate in the 27th edition of the McNay Print Fair, the only major print fair in the Southwestern United States.Read more -
Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera
November 18, 2021 - January 29, 2022 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce Ruiz-Healy Art: Quinceañera, an exhibition commemorating the fifteen-year anniversary of Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio, Texas. The exhibition features work by artists that have...Read more
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McNay Print Fair
March 2 - 3, 2019 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents works at the McNay's 23rd annual Print Fair.Artists featured at the McNay Print Fair will include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Rufino Tamayo, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, and Richard Armendariz.Read more -
Made in Mexico
September 13 - November 3, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Made in Mexico, a group exhibition comprised of Mexican artists. The exhibition explores the ways artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, poetry, nature, and myth.Read more -
Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See
September 8 - October 22, 2016 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See. Using photography to capture the power of women, Iturbide focuses on the hidden, often marginalized women in society.Read more -
IFPDA Ink Miami Art Fair
Miami December 3 - 7, 2014Ruiz-Healy Art participates in Ink Miami with the work of Graciela Iturbide, Leigh Anne Lester, Connie Lowe, Cecilia Paredes, Ethel Shipton, Cecilia Biagini and Julie Speed, among others. As well as Francisco Toledo, Pedro Friedeberg, Jesse Amado, Ricky Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Vincent Valdez and the late Chuck Ramirez.Read more
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Photographic Encounters: Humanity in Nature
September 3 - 30, 2009 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Photographic Encounters: Humanity in Nature as part of FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA. Featuring the work of Cecilia Paredes, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo de Stefano, Arturo Almeida, Alicia Candiani, Carlos Betancourt and Yolanda AndradeRead more -
Arteamericas Art Fair 2009
Miami March 27 - 30, 2009Ruiz-Healy Art is proud to announce its participation in Merril Lynch Arteamericas Fair 2009, featuring works by Pedro Friedeberg, Alfredo de Stéfano, Marysole Worner and Cristina Kahlo.Read more -
International Exposure: Looking at Contemporary Photography
September 4 - 30, 2008 San Antonio“International Exposure: Looking at Contemporary Photography” is presented by Ruiz-Healy Art at the International Center.Read more -
Photography and Video Today
September 19 - October 31, 2007 San AntonioPhotography and Video Today, will feature photographic works from Latin America, the United Sates, and Europe, including the work of Cristina Kahlo, Hugo Tillman, Natalia Arias, Sergio Fasola, Benjamin Dominguez, Cecilia Paredes, and Graciela Iturbide.Read more
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Beauty in Art: 21st Century Interpretations
Central Library Art Gallery San Antonio May 17 - June 23, 2007 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art latest exhibition Beauty in Art: 21st Century Interpretations.Read more -
Arteamericas Art Fair 2007
Miami March 16 - 18, 2007Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce its participation in Arteamericas Fair 2007, featuring works by Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Friedeberg, Ray Smith and Angel Rodriguez-Diaz.Read more -
Art in Dialogue: Color, Form & Line
November 3 - December 30, 2006 San AntonioThe inaugural exhibit at Ruiz-Healy Art took place on November 3rd 2006, and featured the work of Mathias Goeritz, Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Diego Alvarado, , Pedro Friedeberg, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz and Ray Smith.Read more
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Picturing the Border | Cleveland Museum of Art I Featuring: Graciela Iturbide
Author: Nadiah Rivera Fellah 2024Hardcover, 136 pagesRead more
Publisher: Yale University Press
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White Fence Box: Graciela Iturbide, 2024
Authors: Graciela Iturbide, Alfonso Morales Carrillo 2024Boxset with 2 volumes in a hardcover slipcase, Book 1 (hard cover): 146 pages, 96 images Book 2 (soft cover): 48 pages, 36 images pagesRead more
Publisher: RM Mexico
ISBN: 9788419233691
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Graciela Iturbide: Heliotropo 37 I Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Fabienne Bradu and Eduardo Halfon Fabienne Bradu, 2022Hardcover, 309 pagesRead more
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
ISBN: 978-2-86925-161-8
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Graciela Iturbide's Mexico : Photographs | Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2019
Essays by Kristen Gresh and Guillermo Sheridan Kristen Gresh, 2019Hardcover, 240 Pages pagesRead more
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN: 0878468587
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VOZ : Selections from the UTSA Collection, 2018
Essay by Arturo Infante Almeida 2018Hardcopy, 106 pagesRead more
Publisher: Centro de Artes
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Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See I Ruiz-Healy Art, 2016
Essay by Maria Baranda 2016Hardcover, 60 pagesRead more
Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
ISBN: 1367361230
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Graciela Iturbide, 2012
Author: Marta Dahó, Fundación MAPFRE 2012Hardcover, 164 pagesRead more
Publisher: RM Mexico
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Graciela Iturbide: The Hasselblad Award 2008
Essay by Colin Westerbeck Colin Westerbeck, 2009Hardcover, 144 pagesRead more
Publisher: Steidl/hasselblad foundation
ISBN: 9783865217332
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Graciela Iturbide: Juchitán | The Getty Museum, 2007
Essay by Judith Keller Judith Keller, 2007Hard Cover, 75 pages pagesRead more
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369058 0892369051
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Graciela Iturbide: Eyes to Fly With | UT Press, 2006
Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Other Photographs Graciela Iturbide, 2006Hardcover, 212 Pages pagesRead more
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Dimensions: 12 X 12 in