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Pieter Hugo Biography
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1976 |
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa
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2002 - 2003 |
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Two-year Residency at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
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2005 |
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First Prize Portraits section of the 2005 World Press Photo
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2006 |
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Getty Images Young Photographers
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2007 |
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Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
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2008 |
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KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
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2008 |
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Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles Festival
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2008 |
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KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
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Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
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Collections: 21c Museum, Louisville, KY; Bass Museum, Miami, Florida; Ethnologische Museum, Berlin, Germany; FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy; Germeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Huis Marseille, Amersterdam, The Netherlands; Johanesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey; Progressive Art Collection; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castillo y León; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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This Must Be the Place, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (solo)
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2012
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This Must Be the Place, The Hague Museum of Photography, the Netherlands (solo)
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2011
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Permanent Error, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (solo)
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2011
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Nollywood, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (solo)
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2011
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Nollywood, Théâtre de La Ville, Paris (solo)
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2010
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Nollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2010
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Nollywood, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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2010
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BE PREPARED!, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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2010
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Nollywood, Greenway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (solo)
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2010
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On Reality and Other Stories, Forest Centre Culturel, BRASS, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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2010
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Nollywood, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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2010
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The Hyena and Other Men, Herziliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herziliya, Israel (solo)
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2010
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Counterlives, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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2010
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Disquieting Images, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
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2010
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Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, Old Town House, Cape Town, South Africa
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2010
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PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
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2010
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Room for Justice, Avocats Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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2010
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A Celebration of 20 Years, Hereford Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
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2010
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FotoTageTrier 2010, Berlin, Germany
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2010
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Angor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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2009
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Nollywood, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
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2009
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Nollywood, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2009
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Nollywood, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia (solo)
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2009
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Pieter Hugo: Selected Works, Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain (solo)
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2009
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Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Bamako, Mali
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2009
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Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
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2009
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The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
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2009
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Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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2009
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3 stories: Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Paolo Woods, Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange, Luxembourg
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2009
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Stigmata, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
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2009
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Photo Beijing, Beijing, China
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2009
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Animalism, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
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2009
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reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark
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2009
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College, Portland, OR; Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland / Baltimore County, College Park, MD
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2008
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Nollywood, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2008
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Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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2008
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Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts
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2008
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Messina/Musina, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2008
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Works 2002 – 2007, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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2008
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Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo)
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2008
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Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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2008
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Messina/Musina, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
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2008
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Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
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2008
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A Look Away, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
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2008
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The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe, Berliner Festspiele, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
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2008
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Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France
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2008
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reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
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2008
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Room for Justice, Palais de Justice, Brussels, Belgium [Traveling Exhibition]
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2008
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Portraits, FFotogallery, Cardiff, UK (solo)
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2008
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God’s Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, NL (solo)
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2008
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The Hyena and Other Men, FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
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2007
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Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
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2007
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Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
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2007
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Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
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2007
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Pieter Hugo, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Contemporary Photography from South Africa – Part 1, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
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2007
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reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
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2007
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Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
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2007
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Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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2007
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Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
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2007
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An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
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2007
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South Africa in Two Parts, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford
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2007
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LUMO 07 - "us", International Triennial of Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland
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2007
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In your face, galerie bertrand & gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
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2007
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Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico, FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
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2007
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Family Relation, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2007
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Reality Check: Contemporary art photography from South Africa 2007, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
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2007
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Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2006
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Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
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2006
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South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
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2006
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Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
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2006
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Présence Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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2006
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Presence, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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2006
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Como Viver Junto, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
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2006
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Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Chile
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2006
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Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2006
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Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), Pingyao, China
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2006
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Tour - Cape Town to Miami: Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
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2006
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Nie Meer, De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium
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2006
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Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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2005
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Re:Generation. 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
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2004
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Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2004
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Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
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2004
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Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
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2004
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The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal
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2004
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The Albino Project, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
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2003
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Staged Realities—The Studio in African Photography, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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2003
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From Chaos to Order and Back, DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2002
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Margin, the Cold Room Photographic Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
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2002
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Positions on South African Photography—Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
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| Literature |
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2007
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MESSINA/MUSINA,photographs by Pieter Hugo. Transcript of a conversationbetween Pieter Hugo and Joanna Lehan. Text by Stacy Hardy Punctum Editions
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2007
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THE HYENA AND OTHER MEN, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Prestel, 2007. Text by Adekotunbo Abiola
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2006
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LOOKING ASIDE, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Text by Antjie Krog. Punctum
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2006
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FACE: the New Photographic Portrait, edited by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson
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2006
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Black, Brown, White. Photography from South Africa. Kunsthalle Wien
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2005
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Regeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow. Aperture and Thames and Hudson
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