Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) first found his photographic vision through an obsessive exploration of the suburban landscape of his childhood that became the pictures in House Hunting. Through his lens, the idyllic promises of American suburbia were exposed as something darker and entropic. In these images, chipped paint, broken picket fences, and muddy ground reflect homes almost sulking in twilight mist. The muted interior light emanating from thinly curtained windows conceals the lives of the people within, hiding in an anxious, protective posture from the changing world outside.
Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Pier 24: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; and the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea.
Work by Hido is held in over 50 public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Getty; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur. In addition to The End Sends Advance Warning and House Hunting, he has six additional monographs and numerous other publications.
His work has influenced multiple Hollywood productions, such as Spike Jones's Her, Sam Levinson's Euphoria, Issa López's True Detective: Night Country, and the upcoming directorial project by Jason Momoa, Chief of War. He is also one of the subjects of Momoa's HBO Max documentary project on creative makers, On The Roam.