Pieter Hugo

(South African, born 1976)

brujeria, juchitan de zaragoza by pieter hugo

Pieter Hugo

Brujeria, Juchitan de Zaragoza, 2018

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reclining nude, oaxaca de juarez by pieter hugo

Pieter Hugo

Reclining Nude, Oaxaca de Juarez, 2018

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first communion, mexico city by pieter hugo

Pieter Hugo

First Communion, Mexico City, 2019

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the hyena men of abuja, lagos, nigeria by pieter hugo

Pieter Hugo

The Hyena Men of Abuja, Lagos, Nigeria, 2007

12,250 GBP

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

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)

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

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