Pieter Hugo
News
Pieter Hugo has a survey exhibition, This Must Be the Place, at the Fotomuseum Den Haag (3 March to 20 May), travelling to the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (9 June - 2 September). The survey is accompanied by a new book of selected works - see Publications. Hugo's Nollywood series shows at Pataka in Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand, from 26 February to 4 June. He is also included on the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (10 July - 19 August). Hugo has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012, and won the Seydou Keita Award, the top prize at the 9th Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in Mali (2011), for his Permanent Error series.
Exhibitions / Works
- There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends (2011)
- Permanent Error (2010)
- Nollywood (2009)
- Messina/Musina (2006)
- 'Gadawan Kura' - The Hyena Men series II (2005-2007)
- Boy Scouts, Monrovia, Liberia (2006)
- Boerseun: Portraits of young Afrikaans farm boys (2006)
- 'Gadawan Kura' - The Hyena Men series I (2005)
- In Spirit: Portraits of traditional healers in trance, communing with the ancestors (2005)
- Wild Honey Collectors, Techiman District, Ghana (2005)
- Orlando Pirates Football Club supporters, Rustenburg (2005)
- Barristers and Solicitors, Supreme Court of Ghana (2005)
- Judges, Botswana (2005)
- Taxi washers, Durban (2005)
- The Bereaved (2005)
- Looking Aside (2004-2005)
- Portraits of people with Albinism (2003)
- Rwanda: Vestiges of a genocide (2004)
- Malawi: Tuberculosis and guardian care (2003)
Publications
- This Must Be the Place (2012)
- Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide (2011)
- Permanent Error (2011)
- Nollywood (2009)
- The Hyena and Other Men (2007)
- Messina/Musina (2007)
- Looking Aside: South African Studio Portraits 2003-2006 (2006)
Biography
Pieter Hugo was born in 1976 in Johannesburg and grew up in Cape Town, where he continues to live. Recent solo shows have taken place at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2010); Le Chateau d'Eau in Toulouse, France (2010); the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (2009), and Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (2008). Group exhibitions include The Global Contemporary: Art worlds after 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2011); The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (2009); Street & Studio: An urban history of photography at Tate Modern, London (2008); An Atlas of Events at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2007); and the 27th São Paulo Bienal (2006). He won first prize in the Portraits section of the 2006 World Press Photo competition, and was the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art in 2007. In 2008 Hugo was the winner of the KLM Paul Huf Award and the Arles Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in France.
Full CV Also see www.pieterhugo.com