Pieter Hugo

NEWS: Pieter Hugo has solo exhibitions of his Nollywood series at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, from 25 February to 10 April; at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia, from 24 February to 21 March; and at Cokkie Snoei Amsterdam until 17 February; a show of selected works runs concurrently at Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam. Current group shows include the travelling exhibition Room for Justice presented by Avocats Sans Frontières until September 2010.

LATEST WORK

Nollywood (15 January - 21 February 2009)

PREVIOUS WORKS

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

Nollywood (2009)
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 2009 he had solo exhibitions at Tinglado 2 in Tarragona, Spain, and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia, among other venues, and in 2008 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); 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. 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

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