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Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo
Born in 1976, Cape Town, South Africa
Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
 
 
Solo exhibitions
   
2008 God's Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Portraits, FFotogallery, Cardiff, UK
  Les Recontres d'Arles Photographie, Arles, France
  Messina/Musina, National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  The Hyena and Other Men, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  Works 2002 – 2007, galerie bertrand & gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
  Nollywood, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Messina/Musina, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy
   
2007 Messina/Musina, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  Messina/Musina, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
  Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
  Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
   
2006 Presence, galerie bertrand & gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
  Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Presence, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
   
2004 The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal
  The Albino Project, Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
  Rwanda 2004: Partial Remains and Personal Affects, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
   
   
Group exhibitions
   
2008 Street & Studio: Eine urbane Geschichte der Fotografie, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
   
2007 An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
  South Africa in Two Parts, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, UK
  LUMO 07 - "us", International Triennial of Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland
  In your face, galerie bertrand & gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
  Faccia a Faccia: Il nuovo ritrattto fotografico, FORMA, Milan, Italy
  Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
  Art Institute of Boston , Boston, USA
  Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
   
2006 South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Como Viver Junto, 27th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
  Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), China
  Tour - Cape Town to Miami: Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Nie Meer, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
  Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, Benton, USA
   
2005 ReGeneration. 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
  ReGeneration. 50 Photographes de demain, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
   
2003 From Chaos to Order and Back, DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan / Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Staged Realities - The Studio in African Photography, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
   
2002 Margin, The Cold Room Photographic Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  Positions of South African Photography – Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
   
   
Bibliography
   
2008 O'Hagan Sean, “Africa as you've never seen it”, The Observer, 20 July
  “Pieter Hugo and the Hyena Men of Nigeria”, British Journal of Photography, 14 May
  Russell Ruby, “Street and Studio : Sharp Photographs and Blurred Boundaries”, Telegraph, 17 May
  Searle Adrian, “All Human Life”, The Guardian, 21 May
  Grafik Claire, “Who are you looking at? Claire Grafik on Pieter Hugo”, Art on Paper, March-April
  Dempsey Kate (ed.), Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children , DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
  Johnson Ken, “Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men [Last Chance Review]”, The New York Times, 11 January
  Johnson Ken, “Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men [Review]”, The New York Times, 4 January
  Doran Anne, “Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men [Review]”, Time Out New York, 10-16 January
  Callahan Christine, “Man Tames Beast: Pieter Hugo's Camera boldly investigates Dominance and Submission”, Gay City News, 3-9 January
  “Pieter Hugo [Review]”, The New Yorker, 7 January
  Gilber Alan, “My Hyena ”, Village Voice, 2 January
  Verrecas Goedele, “Pieter Hugo: Mensen aan de rand en erover ”, Snoecks
   
   
  Publications
   
2007 The Hyena and Other Men, photographs by Pieter Hugo, text by Adekotunbo Abiola (Ed: Prestel)
  Messina/Musina, photographs by Pieter Hugo, transcript of a conversation between Pieter Hugo and Johanna Lehan, text by Stacy Hardy (Ed: Punctum)
   
2006 Looking Aside, photographs by Pieter Hugo, text by Antjie Krog (Ed: Punctum)
  Face: the New Photographic Portrait (Ed: William A. Ewing / Thames & Hudson)
  Black, Brown, White. Photography from South Africa, Kunsthalle Wien
   
2005 Regeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow (Ed: Aperture / Thames & Hudson)