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Pieter Hugo (South African, 1976)

Timeline

1976: Born in Cape Town, South Africa
2002–2003: Two-year Residency at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2005: First Prize Portraits section of the 2005 World Press Photo
2006: Getty Images Young Photographers
2007: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
2008: KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
2008: Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles Festival
2008: KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
: Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
: 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

Exhibitions

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

Literature

2007: MESSINA/MUSINA,photographs by Pieter Hugo. Transcript of a conversationbetween Pieter Hugo and Joanna Lehan. Text by Stacy Hardy Punctum Editions
2007: THE HYENA AND OTHER MEN, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Prestel, 2007. Text by Adekotunbo Abiola
2006: LOOKING ASIDE, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Text by Antjie Krog. Punctum
2006: FACE: the New Photographic Portrait, edited by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson
2006: Black, Brown, White. Photography from South Africa. Kunsthalle Wien
2005: Regeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow. Aperture and Thames and Hudson