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Born in Aden, Verdi Yahooda is an artist, living and working in London, whose photographic works over the years have addressed issues of cultural history, identity and family rituals.

 

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Studio Address:
Unit B – 71 Digby Road
London E9 6HX

 

Tel: 0208 691 2749
E-mail: info@verdi-yahooda.co.uk

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONs

1970-72

East Ham Technical College, London - Art Foundation Course

1972-75

Goldsmiths College, Unniversity of London - BA Fine Arts 1st class Hons

1975-77

Royal College of Art - MA Photography

 

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1978

Chapter Gallery, Cardiff

1986

The Hidden and To Reveal ,  Impressions Gallery, York

1988

Window Dressing,  The Photographers Gallery, London

1988

UitstallenJohn Hansard Gallery, Southampton & Ffotogallery, Cardiff      

1990

 

Uitstallen - Window Dressing,  Wrexham Arts Centre

1990

Pathways/Landmarks,  Installation at Princelet Street, London

1990

Lost Thread,   Metro Cinema London

1999

Principle of Uncertainty, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff; Oriel 31, Wales; Wrexham Art Centre, Wrexham

1999

The Broken Trough, Gorky State Library, Perm, Russia (with financial assistance from The British council)

2003

"...the rest is shifting sands."; Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv; and at The Ein Harod Museum, Israel;(with financial assistance from The British council)

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1978

3 Artists;  Kettles Yard  Cambridge

1981

Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts

1983

Across the Frontier;  Imperial College  London

1984

Dogworks;  Interim Art  London

1984

New Directions;  Rochdale Art Gallery

1985

Ritual, Memory and Monument: Five WomenHoward Garden Gallery, Cardiff

1985

A Sense of Place;  Interim Art  London

1985

Food as Politics;  Camerawork  London

1985

The Still Life Show;  Untitled Gallery  Sheffield; Axiom Arts Centre; and Tour

1985

Stairway Installation,  Cambridge Darkroom

1986

Whitechapel Open;  London

1986

Festivals: Domestic Stories; Camerawork  London

1986

Object as Art;  Plymouth Arts Centre

1986

No Place like Home;  Cornerhouse  Manchester

1987

House of Collection; Fotogalerie 2 1/2x4 1/2 Amsterdam (with financial assistance from The British council)

1987

Foto Cliche; Victoria Miro Gallery  London & Orchard Gallery  Derry

1987

Inscriptions and Inventions; British Council Touring Show

1988

Subversive Stitch;  Cornerhouse  Manchester & Tour

1988

Towards a Bigger Picture; Victoria & Albert Museum London  and Tate Gallery  Liverpool

1989

Metamorphosis of the Image;  2nd Athens Photography  Biennale,  

1989

Anima Mundi; Stills Gallery Edinburgh and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography touring exhibition

1990

Journey of a Book;  Bookworks at the British Library

1991

Treading a Fine Line;  Zelda Cheatle Gallery  London

1992

Power & Providence;  Cambridge Darkroom

1993

Minimal Relics;  Natural History Museum, Rotterdam

1994

Multi Exposure Photographic Awards; The Artists House, Jerusalem and Akehurst Gallery London

1995

41 Clues; Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

1996

Desert; John Hansard Gallery Southampton, The South London Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1996

History, The Mag Collection; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and tour

1998

'The Discerning Eye’; The Mall Galleries, London; (Invited Artist - selected by Arturo Di Stefano)

1999

Textures of Memory; Angel Row Gallery and Tour in 2000

2000

Perm International 2000, Perm, Russia  (with financial assistance from The British council)

2003

Tirana Biennale, Albania

2004

Trace exhibition, Hirschl Gallery, London

2006

Silver Light International Photo Festival, Perm, Russia

2007

Documenta 12 intranet magazine project

2007

'The Discerning Eye’; The Mall Galleries, London;(Invited Artist - selected by Charles Saumarez-Smith)

2008

‘Said’ Foyer Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2008

‘Concrete Dreams’ Art, Architecture and Social Space; Apt Gallery, London

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ARTISTS BOOKS

1983-84

The Dancer - Coracle Press

1986

To Unfold and To Present - Coracle Press

1989-90

Guidelines to the System - Bookworks

1999 

Principle of Uncertainty

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SELECTED REviews and Essays

Creative Camera

1982; 1985; 1988; 1994; 1996

Undercut

September 1986

Artscribe

Summer 1988; Jan/Feb 1991

Art Monthly

March 1989; Feb 1991

Arts Review

Feb 1990

Katalog

June 1990 (Finland)

Crafts Magazine

March/April 1991

European Photography

Issue 43 July – Sep 1990

The Print Collector

Vol XXII July/August 1992, USA

Porfolio

December 1999;

Make

September – November 1999

Source Magazine

Issue 42,  Spring 2005

n-paradoxa

Volume 17 ‘Journeys’ Jan 2006 (Artists Pages)

Shame and Sexuality

Psychoanalysis and visual culture’
Academic volume published by Routledge; February 2008

Essay 'Stain' by Pennina Barnett discussing the work of three artists: Ann Taylor, Maria Chevska and Verdi Yahooda.

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SELECTED CATALOGUES

    • New British Image - 1978
    • British Journal of Photography - 1980
    • Object as Art - Plymouth Arts Centre Catalogue 1986
    • Foto Cliche - Victoria Miro Catalogue 1986
    • Inscriptions and Inventions - British Council Catalogue 1987
    • Aperture Catalogue - 1988
    • The Subversive Stitch - Cornerhouse Catalogue 1988
    • International Month of Photography - Athens Biennale Catalogue 1989
    • Anima MuPhotographyndi - Canadian Museum of Contemporary
      Catalogue 1989
    • Le Mois de La Photo a Montreal - Catalogue September 1989
    • The Compelling Eye - Royal College of Art Catalogue 1989
    • MAKING ARRANGEMENTS - Catalogue of selected works, with an essay by Susan Butler; Wrexham Arts Centre Catalogue 1991
    • Power & Providence - Cambridge Darkroom Catalogue 1992
    • Minimal Relics - Zoological Museum of Amsterdam Catalogue 1992
    • Work and Turn - Artists' Bookworks from the U.K. Catalogue 1992
    • Multi Exposure Photographic Awards - Catalogue1994
    • Rubies and Rebels Catalogue 1996
    • Desert - Catalogue 1996
    • History, The Mag Collection - Catalogue 1996
    • Discerning Eye Catalogue 1998; 2007
    • Textures of Memory/ The Poetics of Cloth - Catalogue 1999
    • Tirana Biennale - Catalogue 2003
    • Marking Space - Catalogue 2008

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AWARDS / COMMISSION / RESIDENCY

1986

Greater London Arts Award

1987

Residency at Exeter College of Art

1989-90

Bookworks Commission to publish Artists Book: "Guidelines to the System"
(with financial support from the Arts Council)

1992

Power & Providence;  Cambridge Darkroom

1993

Multiexposure Photographic Award

1999

Invitation from Perm Photographers Association for one month residency in Perm, Russia.
(with financial support from the British Council)

2001

Paul Hamlyn award nominee

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CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUMS

1999

Presentation of work at ‘50 years of Yemenite Jewry’ Symposium at the
Joods Cultureel Centrum, Amsterdam, in affiliation with the University of Amsterdam.

2004

30th January – Out of the Box Photography and the Archive at LCC; organised by Val Williams; Speakers include Mark Haworth Booth; Stephen Bull;
Peter Cattrell; Neil Cummings; David Chandler; Charlotte Cotton; Gordon MacDonald; Alison Marchant; Martin Parr; Pam Skelton; Clare Strand; Liz Wells;

2007

24th-25thJanuary - Photography Symposium at University College Falmouth; Speakers include Clair Grafik, Joy Gregory, Anna Fox, Wendy McMurdo, Helen Sear, Tansy Spinks.

2007

23rd June – Photographers network programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany; organised by Thomas Kellner. Speakers include Lena Tsakmaki, Udo Beck, Hans Mettler, Nelly Thomas, Masaki Hirano, Herbert Boettcher.

2008

6th June – ‘Marking Space’ A Symposium exploring the complex relationships and interpretations of space/place, boundaries, belonging and displacement. Speakers include: Catherine Bertolla; Annie Cattrell; Jane Dixon; Linda Florence; Marjolaine Ryley;

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    • Victoria & Albert Museum
    • The British Council
    • Leeds City Council
    • Rijksmuseum Meermanno - The Hague
    • The Royal College of Art
    • Ferens Art Gallery
    • Private Collections

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Artists Book collections

    • Manchester Metropolitan University
    • Derby University Library
    • Leeds Metropolitan University
    • Bibliothecha Rosenthalia – University of Amsterdam                 
    • New York Public Library
    • Chelsea College Library
    • School of Art Institute of Chicago
    • Tate Gallery
    • Victoria & Albert Museum

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LECTURING / PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1982 - 1987

ILEA Adult Education – Part-time teaching Photography

1986 -
2008

Part time Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

1986 - 2005

Visiting Lecturer at: Cardiff University; Central/St. Martins London; De Montfort University. Leicester; Derby University; Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall; Goldsmiths College; Hull University; Middlesex Polytechnic; Royal College of Art; Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford; Northumbria University; Staffordshire Polytechnic; Winchester School of Art; University of Portsmouth

1986 – 2001

Visiting Artist at: Impressions Gallery, York; Plymouth Arts Centre; Wrexham  Arts Centre;

1987

Residency at Exeter College of Art

1993

External Assessor, Photography department at The Royal College of Art.

1999

Participated in ‘50 years of Yemenite Jewry’  Symposium at the JOODS  CULTUREEL CENTRUM/ Amsterdam, in affiliation with the University of Amsterdam.

2000

Invited to Bezalel Academy of Arts at the Jerusalem  University to give a two week workshop and semimars. (with financial assistance from The British Council)

1995 - 2003

On the selection panel for the MULTI - EXPOSURE Photographic Awards

2004

Teaching for one month @ Limkokwing University College of Creative Technology, Malaysia

2008

16-19 October - Invited to Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, and Vildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in conjunction with the Contemporary Istanbul International Art Fair; (Sponsors 2010 ISTANBUL EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE AGENCY)

1993 - present

Part-time Associate Professor at The American Intercontinental University, London.

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