Pieter Hugo

Artist Works

Mummy Ahmadu and a snake charmer with rock python - 2005
44 x 44 inches Digital C-Print

Artist Bio

Pieter Hugo's provocative series of large scale photogrtaphs entitled The Hyena and Other Men, are deeply arresting and often troubling depictions of Nigerian animal charmers. Mr. Hugo received the 2008 Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival and the 2008 KLM Paul Huf Award. His work has been featured in a solo exhibition at the Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, and his work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the GEM/Fotomuseum den Haag, among others. A book of work from the Nollywood series was published by Prestel in 2009, and The Hyena and Other Men was published by Prestel in 2007. Hugo was born in South Africa in 1976 and currently lives near Cape Town.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2010

  • Nollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
  • Nollywood, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • BE PREPARED!, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 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
  • Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
  • Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
  • Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

• 2009

  • • Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Bamako, Mali
    • Head On, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
    • Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
    • 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, 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

• COLLECTIONS

  • • 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
    • Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
    • Ethnologische Museum, Berlin
    • FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
    • Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
    • Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
    • Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
    • Johanesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
    • LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois
    • Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
    • Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
    • Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castillo y Leon
    • Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
    • Progressive Art Collection
    • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
    • South African National Gallery, Cape Town
    • Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
    • Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands