Pieter Hugo

NEWS: In 2008 Pieter Hugo was the winner of the KLM Paul Huf Award and the Arles Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in France. He has solo exhibitions at Tinglado 2 in Tarragona, Spain (8 May - 15 July), and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia (12 June - 11 July). His work is included on Unbounded: New Art for a New Century at The Newark Museum, New Jersey (11 February - 16 August); Stigmata at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva (4 March - 26 July); Three Stories at CNA (Centre National de l'Audiovisuel) Luxembourg (29 March - 31 May); The Endless Renaissance at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (17 April - 16 August); Animalism at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK (6 May - 27 September); and the travelling exhibition Room for Justice presented by Avocats Sans Frontières until September 2010.

RECENT WORK

Self-portraits on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (19 February - 21 March 2009)

LATEST EXHIBITION

Nollywood (15 January - 21 February 2009)

PREVIOUS WORKS

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

The Hyena & Other Men (2007)
Messina/Musina (2007)
Looking Aside: South African Studio Portraits 2003-2006 (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Pieter Hugo was born in 1976 and grew up in Cape Town. He underwent a two-year residency in 2002-3 at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. In 2008 he had solo exhibitions at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and Ffotogallery in Penarth, Wales. Recent group exhibitions include Street & Studio: An urban history of photography at Tate Modern, London (2008); Make Art/Stop AIDS at the Fowler Museum, UCLA (2008); An Atlas of Events at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2007); Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico at FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan (2007); the 27th São Paulo Bienal (2006); and Street: Behind the cliché at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006). Hugo was included on ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025 (Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, and Aperture, New York), an exhibition identifying 50 young photographers who will be considered great by 2025, accompanied by a book published by Thames & Hudson. 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 2007. Full CV