Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. Most notably, Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all his published works. 

Hido’s photographs of suburban landscapes are taken during solitary, long drives. The main subject of his work is the quality of natural and artificial light in the American landscape, as in reflected sunrays or the illumination of a television pouring from an anonymous window. Hido takes his pictures in a “fairly undirected way”, he says, but edits his negatives together and manipulates them until he produces an image that represents his encounter with a place. In describing his process, Hido said, “I shoot sort of like a documentarian, but I print like a painter.”

SELECT Exhibitions

• Some Polar Expiation, an Enormous Cat, a Complete Collection of Cinematic Houses at Night, a Starlet, a Mentor, Some Assorted Reveries & a Message from the Future, Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2024

• Intimate Distance, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA

• Open House, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

• Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

• America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island

• The View From Here, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California