b. South Africa, 1976
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
- This Must Be the Place, touring exhibition, The Hague Museum of Photography, The Netherlands; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011
- Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
- Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
- Pieter Hugo: Nollywood, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Permanent Error, Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Permanent Error, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
- Permanent Error, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa; Brodie Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Nollywood, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
- The Hyena and Other Men, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland
- On Reality and Other Stories, Forest Centre Culturel, BRASS, Brussels, Belgium
- Nollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
- Nollywood, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- On Reality and Other Stories, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
- Colette, Paris
- Nollywood, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- BE PREPARED!, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- The Hyena and Other Men, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
- Nollywood, Greenway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2009
- Nollywood, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
- Nollywood, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
- Nollywood, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
- Pieter Hugo: Selected Works, Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain
2008
- The Hyena and Other Men, FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- God’s Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Portraits, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
- Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- Nollywood, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Works 2002-2007, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
- Messina/Musina, National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007
- Pieter Hugo: The Hyena & Other Men, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
- Messina/Musina, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
- Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
- Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
- Presence, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
- Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004
- The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal
- The Albino Project, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
- Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2002
- Margin, the Cold Room Photographic Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
- Foto Trienniale.dk, Funen, Denmark
- Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men, Moscow Photo Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2011
- ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
- Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa, SASOL Kunsmuseum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Il corpo metafora di un’esperienza, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
- All Cannibals?, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
- Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2010
- Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Provincia di Modena, Italy
- Sharon Stone in Abuja, Location One, New York, NY
- Counterlives, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- Disquieting Images, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
- This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
- Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany
- After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Atri, Italy
- Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, Iziko Old Town House Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Sanlam Gallery, Bellville, South Africa
- 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
- Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
- Halakasha!, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
- Room for Justice, Avocats Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- A Celebration of 20 Years, Hereford Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
- FotoTageTrier 2010, Berlin, Germany
- Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2009
- Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Bamako, Mali
- Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
- A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
- The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
- Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
- 3 stories: Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Paolo Woods, Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange, Luxembourg
- Stigmata, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, France, at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
- Photo Beijing, Beijing, China
- Animalism, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
- reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR; Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland / Baltimore County, College Park, MD
2008
- A Look Away, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
- Room for Justice, Palais de Justice, Brussels, Belgium; Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
- The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe, Berliner Festspiele, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
- Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France
- Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
- Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts
- reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
2007
- Lumo ’07 – ‘us,’ 7th International Triennial of Photography, Finland
- Contemporary Photography from South Africa – Part 1, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
- An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
- Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico, FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
- In Your Face, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
- 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
- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
- reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- Art Institute of Boston, MA
2006
- South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
- Como Viver Junto, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), Pingyao, China
- Tour - Cape Town to Miami: Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Nie Meer, De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium
- Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2005
- reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Aperture Gallery, New York, NY; Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
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
- Positions on South African Photography – Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001
- New South African Art, JAK Gallery, London, UK
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011
- Seydou Keita Award, Recontres de Bamako African Photography Biennal, Bamako, Mali
- Young Director Award, Cannes Lions Festival
2008
- Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles Festival
- KLM Paul Huf Award, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
2007
- Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
2006
- Getty Images Young Photographers
2005
- First Prize, Portraits section, 2005 World Press Photo
2002–2003
- Two-year Residency at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
COLLECTIONS
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- 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
- Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
- Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
- Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt, Germany
- Ethnologische Museum, Berlin
- FNAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
- FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
- Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
- Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
- Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 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
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
- Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castillo y León, León, Spain
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
- Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town
- Statoil Art Collection, Stavanger, Norway
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
- Netherlands, 2012: This Must Be the Place, exh. cat., Netherlands, The Hague Museum of Photography: Prestel Publishing, 2012.
2011
- Kuan, Debora. “Pieter Hugo [Review].” Modern Painters. December 2011/January2012.
- Saltz, Jerry. [Review]. New York Magazine. 31 October 2011.
- “Pieter Hugo [Review].” The New Yorker. 12 September 2011.
- “Critics Pick: Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error [Listing].” Time Out New York. 8 September 2011.
- Roalf, Peggy. “Pieter Hugo at Yossi Milo Gallery [Review].” DART: Design Arts Daily. 8 September 2011.
- Stewart, Samantha L. “Digital Dump.” Newsweek. 25 July 2011.
- Takkunen, Mikko. “Pieter Hugo’s ‘Permanent Error.’” British Journal of Photography. 13 July 2011.
- Hugo, Pieter. Permanent Error. Munich: Prestel, 2011.
2010
- “Dumping Across the Digital Divide”. New York Times Magazine. 15 August 2010.
- Franzoni, Christina. “On Africa”. Zoom. July 2010
- Aletti, Vince. “Goings on About Town: Art: Pieter Hugo [Review}”. The New Yorker. April 2010
- Beckmann, Anne-Marie. “On My Mind.” Foam Magazine. No. 22. Spring 2010.
- Bourland, Ian. “Critic’s Picks: Pieter Hugo”. Artforum. 23 March 2010.
- Hall, Scott. “Now Showing: Hooray for Nollywood”. T Magazine. April 2010.
- Rexer, Lyle. ”About the Cover”. [Cover] Photograph. March / April 2010.
- Siegal, Miranda. “See Photographer Pieter Hugo’s Take on Nigerian Cinema.” New York Magazine. 23 February 2010.
- “Pieter Hugo: Nollywood [Listing]’. The New Yorker. 8 March 2010.
- “Critic’s Picks: Pieter Hugo: Nollywood [Listing].” Time Out New York. 11 March 2010.
2009
- Hugo, Pieter. Nollywood. Munich: Prestel, 2009.
- Angelucci, Federica. “Welcome to Nollywood.” Dazed and Confused. August 2009.
- “No Apology.” Art South Africa, Summer 2009.
2008
- O’Hagan, Sean. “Africa as you’ve never seen it.” The Observer. 20 July 2008.
- [Cover]. JUXTAPOZ. The Photography Issue. No. 88 May 2008.
- “Pieter Hugo and The Hyena Men of Nigeria.” British Journal of Photography. 14 May 2008
- “Street & Studio: Sharp photographs and blurred boundaries.” Telegraph. 17 May 2008.
- “All Human Life.” The Guardian. 21 May 2008.
- Grafik, Claire. “Who Are You Looking At? Clare Grafik on Pieter Hugo.” Art on Paper March/April 2008.
- Dempsey, Kate, Ed. Presumed Innocence. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. 2008
- Johnson, Ken. “Pieter Hugo: ‘The Hyena and Other Men’ [‘Last Chance’ review].” The New York Times 11 January 2008: E27.
- Johnson, Ken. “Pieter Hugo: ‘The Hyena and Other Men’ [review].” The New York Times 4 January 2008: E31.
- Doran, Anne. “Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men [review].” Time Out New York 10-16 January 2008: 71.
- Callahan, Christine. “Man Tames Beast: Pieter Hugo’s camera boldly investigates dominance and submission.” Gay City News 3-9 January 2008.
- “Pieter Hugo [review].” The New Yorker 7 January 2008.
- Gilbert, Alan. “My Hyena.” Village Voice 2 January 2008.
- Verrecas, Goedele. “Pieter Hugo: Mensen aan de rand en erover.” Snoecks [Belgium] 2008.
2007
- Hugo, Pieter. The Hyena and Other Men. Munich: Prestel, 2007.
- Johnson, Ken. “Pieter Hugo [review].” The New York Times 28 December 2007.
- Kreye, Andrian. “Höllenhunde in den Städten.” Feuilleton 27 November 2007.
- Gopnik, Blake. “Glories of Gotham: A Bright Art Season in New York.” The Washington Post 18 December 2007: C1-C2.
- [review]. Condé Nast Traveler December 2007.
- [image]. Time Out New York November 29, 2007.
- [image]. The New Yorker December 10, 2007.
- Kuan, Debora. [critic’s picks]. Artforum December 2007.
- Hugo, Pieter. Messina / Musina. Paris: Punctum Editions, 2007.
- Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn. “Pieter Hugo: The Critical Zone of Engagement.” Aperture Spring 2007.
- Trainor, James. “How to Live Together.” Frieze January 2007.
- Weinstein, Steve. “Peter Hugo: Stephen Cohen Gallery.” Focus Magazine May 2007.
- “Pieter Hugo: Outside/Outsiders.” Portfolio Contemporary Photography. Issue 44, 2007.
2006
- Hugo, Pieter. Looking Aside: South African studio portraits 2003-2006. Paris: Punctum Editions, 2006.
- Ewing, William A., Ed. FACE: The New Photographic Portrait. Thames & Hudson, 2006.
- Black, Brown, White: Photography from South Africa. Kunsthalle Wien, 2006.
- Bester, Rory. “Pieter Hugo: Outsider/Outsiders”. Portfolio: Contemporary Photography in Britain December 2006.
- Smith, Roberta. “Regeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow [Review]”. The New York Times 9 June 2006.
2005
- “100 Artists on the Cusp of International Success.” Art Review [UK] December 2005.
- “Men and Hyenas: The Photos of Pieter Hugo.” Internazionale [IT] 27 October – 4 November 2005.
- Erwing, William., Nathalie Herschdorfer, and Jean-Christophe Blaser. reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2006. New York: Aperture, 2005.
- O’Toole, Sean. “The Outsider.” Creative Review [UK] June 2005.
2004
- Checchi, Rosanna. “Pieter Hugo.” Zoom [Italy] May 2004.
