Marcela Taboada (1958 Puebla, Pue. Mexico)
- Marcela Taboada has been a freelance photographer for over 40 years.
- She has contributed to numerous publications, including books and art catalogs. Her editorial work has been featured in magazines and newspapers, both nationally and internationally.
- For 16 years she created and produced Mary Ellen Mark’s International Workshop in Oaxaca.
- She is guest instructor and workshop leader at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in Oaxaca.
- She teaches photography at universities and senior high schools; she also leads workshops for children and teenagers in vulnerable situations. She teaches blind photographers.
- She has mentored Young Creators for the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).
- She has more than twenty projects, including “Timeless Homes”, “The Baseball Warriors”, “Women of Clay”, “Life is elsewhere”, “Holy Saturday”, “Distant Contacts”, “Mexican homo-sapiens”, “Enabled”, “San Migueleñas”, “Consecrated”, “At the shade of the tree”, among others.
- Her work has been exhibited in various museums and galleries in Mexico and abroad.
- Her work is included in the following collections: Sonoma Museum of Art, CA; The Hasselblad Center, Sweden; Copenhagen Fotografisk Center, Denmark; Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, NYC; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Fifty Crows Gallery, San Francisco; The Wittliff Collection, Texas; Yale University Art Center, NY; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Oaxaca; and Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, among others.
- She has received numerous awards, grants, and distinctions, including a Hasselblad Foundation grant, National Geographic All Roads Photographers grant, Photo Lucida grant, Mexico-Indonesia Cultural Exchange grant, Planet Magazine Award, National System of Art Creators Award (FONCA) on two occasions, a Nikon Jury grant in Tokyo, Japan, the Héctor and María García Foundation Award in Mexico, among others.
AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
- 2015 LiveBooks Ambassador.
- 2014 Fundación Héctor y MarIa Garcia Award.
- 2013 Nikon Internacional Jury, Tokio, Japan.
- 2012 Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2013-2016. FONCA.
- 2011 SECULTA C*11, Oaxaca.
- 2011 Planet Magazine, prize USA.
- 2011 Guest artist Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago.
- 2010 Banamex El Mexico de los Mexicanos selection.
- 2009 Cultural Exchange México-Indonesia.
- 2009 Photo Vernissage Saint-Petersburg, Rusia.
- 2008 PhotoLucida, USA
- 2007 FONCA. Creators with trajectory, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- 2005 The image Creators, Prize Yugoslavia.
- 2005 National Geographic All Roads Photographers. Washington, DC.
- 2002 Hasselblad Foundation stipend, Sweden.
- 2001 I Photographic Latina Bienale Copenhaguen, Denmark.
1999 III photojournalism Bienale, México sports.