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Peter Hujar
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American
, 1934–1987)
Peter Hujar
David Wojnarowicz in Bed,
1983
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1934
Born in Trenton, NJ
1987
Died in New York, NY
Exhibitions
2014
Peter Hujar: Love & Lust, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2011
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Three Lives: Peter Hujar, Paul Thek & David Wojnarowicz, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2010
Peter Hujar: Thek’s studio 1967, Alexander and Bonin, New York and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich (solo)
2008
Peter Hujar, Maureen Paley, London (solo)
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
2007
Peter Hujar, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (solo)
2006
The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Night, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Peter Hujar: Portraits, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (solo)
Peter Hujar, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (solo)
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
2005
Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York
The History of Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2004
Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Gallerie St. Etienne, New York
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2003
Histories of Photography, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, Team Gallery, New York
From the Observatory,(organized by Robert Nickas), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, exhibiting at various locations in New York City
Fotografische Erwerbungen seit 1995 – Gefördert durch die Stiftung Presse-Haus NRZ, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2002
Portraits in Life and Death, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
Portraits/Photography, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000
Photographs 1980-1987, Matthew Marks Gallery (solo)
1999
Galerie Berinson, Berlin (solo)
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (solo)
Hujar, The Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Some Sort of Grace: A Relationship, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York (solo)
1998
Seminal Works, James Danziger Gallery, New York (solo)
1996
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (solo)
Peter Hujar: Das Photographische Werk, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (solo)
Commonplace Mysteries: Photographs by Peter Hujar, Andrea Modica, and Bill Owens, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1994
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Hujar: A Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo)
1992
Peter Hujar: Portraits of Animals, James Danziger Gallery, New York (solo)
1991
Peter Hujar’s New York, James Danziger Gallery, New York (solo)
Peter Hujar Fotografien, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich (solo)
Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (solo)
1990
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University (solo)
1989
Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artist’s Space, New York
Self and Shadow, Aperture Foundation (Burden Gallery), New York
150 Jahre 1839-1889, Basler Kunstverein, Basel
1988
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Les Splendeurs et Miseres du Corps, Mois de la Photo a Paris, Paris
Vollbild, Eine Kunst-Ausstellung über Leben und Sterben, Die Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Künste, Berlin
The Photographs of Peter Hujar, State University College of New York at Buffalo (solo)
1987
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1986
Recent Photographs, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York (solo)
1985
Nude Stripped Bare, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1982
Faces Photographed: Contemporary Camera Images, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam (solo)
Galerie Nagel, Berlin (solo)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (solo)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (solo)
Peter Hujar: Foto’s 1974-81, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam (solo)
Forum Stadtparkm Graz, Steirmark (solo)
Galerie Modern Art, Vienna (solo)
New American Nudes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Creative Photography Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
1981
Recent Photographs, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York (solo)
1980
Presences- The Figure and Manmade Environments, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
Portraits, Centre d’Art contemporain, Geneva
La Remise du Parc, Paris (solo)
Peter Hujar, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna
1979
Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, New York (solo)
Recent Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York (solo)
The Male Image, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
Photographs, National Arts Club, New York
Fotografie als Kunst / Kunst als Fotografie, Tiroler, Austria
Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York (solo)
1978
The Male Nude, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
1977
New York Portraits, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York (solo)
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York (solo)
New York: The City and Its People, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
1976
Celebration of Life Below 14th Street, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
1975
Coming of Age in America, Midtown Y Gallery, New York
Group Show, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
Portfolio by Peter Hujar, Foto Gallery, New York (solo)
1974
Floating Foundation of Photography, New York (solo)
New Acquisitions, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
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