Born in Calgary in 1975, Owen Kydd lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2012), and has presented his works at the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (2016), Norton Museum, Miami (2016), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2015), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015) the International Center of Photography, New York (2014), FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam (2014), LACMA, Los Angeles (2014), Galerie Xippas, Paris (2014), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2014), and the Daegu Photo Biennial in Korea (2012). In 2015, Kydd was a finalist for the Aimia/AGO Photography Prize, one of the most important awards for contemporary photography.