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Pieter Hugo

(South African, born 1976)

Pieter Hugo

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria, , 2007

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Pieter Hugo

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria, 2007

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Pieter Hugo

The Hyena and Other Men (Mallam Galadima Ahamadu with Jamis, Nigeria), 2007

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Mallam Mantari Lamal with Mainasara, Nigeria from The Hyena and Other Men, 2005

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Biography

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 Photographer Award
2007: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
2008: KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
: Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles Festival
: KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
2011: Seydou Keita Award, 9th Recontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial, Mali
: FOTOGRAFIA - The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome
: Young Director Award, Cannes Lions Festival
2012: Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2015: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet. The global award in photography and sustainability
: PDN Photo Annual for Photo Books Section Award
: Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa

Exhibitions

2017: Good Hope. South Africa & The Netherlands, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
: Peripheral Dispatches, | PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2016: Pieter Hugo: Thirteen Works, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
: 1994, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
: In Focus, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
: Pieter Hugo | KIN, | PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Kin, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (solo)
: In Focus’ artist during the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London (solo)
: Corporeality, | PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2015: Portraits: From the unsaid to the un-dead, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (ICAIO), Mauritius (solo)
: Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
: Apartheid and After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Present Tense, Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
: Here Africa, Chˆteau de Penthes, Geneve-Pregny, Switzerland
: Between Subject and Object: Human remains at the interface of art and science, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Souh Africa
: From Sitting to Selfie: 300 years of South African Portraits, Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
: This Must Be the Place, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro Atlántico De Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands (solo)
: Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3), New Orleans Biennial, USA
: Rwanda 20 Years, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
: Kin, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2014: Kin, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: T.R.I.P. Travel Routes In Photography, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome Animalis, Fundación Forvm per la Fotografia, Tarragona, Spain
: The Glorious Rise and Fall ... (and so on), Groot Ziekengasthuis, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
: The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Nothing to Declare?, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
: Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
: Either/Or, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
: Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
: Some Views of Africa, Studio la Città di Verona, Italy
: Present Tense, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
: Art and Textile: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
: Transition: Social Landscape, Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France
: There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends, Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, Arles, France (solo)
: This Must Be the Place, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
: Kin, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2013: Kin, Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: This Must Be the Place, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (solo)
: This Must Be the Place, The Hague Museum of Photography, the Netherlands (solo)
2012: Nollywood, Pataka, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand
2011: Permanent Error, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (solo)
: Nollywood, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (solo)
: Nollywood, Théâtre de La Ville, Paris (solo)
: FotoTageTrier 2010, Berlin, Germany
: BE PREPARED!, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: Nollywood, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: Nollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Angor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
: Nollywood, Greenway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (solo)
: A Celebration of 20 Years, Hereford Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
: Disquieting Images, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
: PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, Old Town House, Cape Town, South Africa
: Counterlives, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
: The Hyena and Other Men, Herziliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herziliya, Israel (solo)
: Nollywood, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2010: On Reality and Other Stories, Forest Centre Culturel, BRASS, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Room for Justice, Avocats Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: 3 stories: Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Paolo Woods, Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange, Luxembourg
: College, Portland, OR; Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland / Baltimore County, College Park, MD
: reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark
: Animalism, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
: Photo Beijing, Beijing, China
: Stigmata, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
: Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
: Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
: Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Bamako, Mali
: Pieter Hugo: Selected Works, Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain (solo)
: Nollywood, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia (solo)
: Nollywood, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy (solo)
2009: Nollywood, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
: The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
: A Look Away, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
: The Hyena and Other Men, FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
: God’s Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, NL (solo)
: Portraits, FFotogallery, Cardiff, UK (solo)
: Room for Justice, Palais de Justice, Brussels, Belgium [Traveling Exhibition]
: reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
: Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France
: The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe, Berliner Festspiele, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
: Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: Messina/Musina, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo)
: Works 2002 – 2007, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Messina/Musina, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts
: Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Nollywood, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
: LUMO 07 - "us", International Triennial of Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland
: South Africa in Two Parts, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford
: In your face, galerie bertrand & gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
: Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
: Family Relation, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Reality Check: Contemporary art photography from South Africa 2007, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
: Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico, FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
: An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
: Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
: Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
: reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
: Contemporary Photography from South Africa – Part 1, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
2007: Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
: Pieter Hugo, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), Pingyao, China
: Presence, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: Présence Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
: Nie Meer, De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium
: Tour - Cape Town to Miami: Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Chile
: Como Viver Junto, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
: Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2006: Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
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)
: Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
: The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal
: 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
: 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)
: Positions on South African Photography—Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

Public Collections

: The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany
: Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
: Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
: FRAC Réunion, Reunion Island, France
: Fundación Forvm per a la Fotografia, Tarragona, Spain
: Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
: Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
: Johanesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
: Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
: Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
: 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
: Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
: Banque Neuflize OBC, Paris
: Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
: Cincinnati Art Museum
: Centre Pompidou, Paris
: Daimler Art Collection
: Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt
: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
: Ethnologische Museum, Berlin
: MUSAC_Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
: MOMA, New York
: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
: Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
: Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
: North Carolina Museum of Art
: Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland
: MUDAM, Luxembourg
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: Victoria & Albert Museum
: The Five Continents Museum, Munich
: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
: LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois
: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
: Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
: Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
: South African National Gallery, Cape Town
: FNAC, France

Literature

2007: MESSINA/MUSINA,photographs by Pieter Hugo. Transcript of a conversationbetween Pieter Hugo and Joanna Lehan. Text by Stacy Hardy Punctum Editions
: 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
: FACE: the New Photographic Portrait, edited by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson
: Black, Brown, White. Photography from South Africa. Kunsthalle Wien
2005: Regeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow. Aperture and Thames and Hudson

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Pieter Hugo

(South African, born 1976)

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Pieter Hugo

(South African, born 1976)

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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