Pieter Hugo (born 1976, Johannesburg) is a photographic artist based in Cape Town. His work is concerned with the possibilities and limits of portraiture, and how images shape our understanding of one another.

He has presented major solo exhibitions at leading institutions worldwide, including Rencontres d'Arles, Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Hague Museum of Photography, Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne), the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), MAXXI (Rome), and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane.

Hugo’s work has also featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Perez Art Museum Miami, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Barbican, Tate Modern, the Folkwang Museum, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the Bienal de São Paulo, among others.

His photographs are held in major public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, SFMOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Walther Collection, Deutsche Börse Group, the Folkwang Museum, and Huis Marseille.

Hugo’s accolades include the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles and the KLM Paul Huf Award (both 2008), the Seydou Keïta Award at the Rencontres de Bamako and the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions (2011).

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