Vida Yovanovich

Vida Yovanovich (born 9 October 1949) is a Mexican photographer. Born in Cuba to war refugees from Yugoslavia, she moved to Mexico as a young child and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. A 2000 Guggenheim Fellow, she has held individual exhibitions not only in her native Mexico and Cuba, but also in the United States, Europe, and South Africa, and she is also known for her exhibition "La Cárcel de los Sueños". Biography Vida Yovanovich was born on 9 October 1949 in Havana, Cuba, where her parents fled from their native Yugoslavia due to war, and she moved to Mexico City in 1956. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. in 1978. Among collections storing her works are those of the , the Casa de las Américas in Cuba, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Argentina, and the Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade. One of her exhibitions, "La Cárcel de los Sueños", was described by Milenio as "one of her most recognized works", A companion book for the exhibition was completed in 1997 with an introduction by Elena Poniatowska.

She was a Fellow of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura in 1983 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in 1994. She won the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia's 2022 Medal of Photographic Merit. She is also a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.

She considers herself to be a "Mexican by adoption".