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". ==References==