Pieter Hugo

NEWS: Pieter Hugo has an upcoming solo show at Le Brass, Brussels (27 August - 26 November). Group shows include Lie of the Land at the Old Town House, Cape Town, until the end of August; the travelling exhibition Room for Justice presented by Avocats Sans Frontières until September 2010; PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January); Disquieting Images at the Triennale di Milano, Italy (18 October - 9 January); a celebration of 20 years of the Hereford Photo Festival, Belfast (29 October - 27 November); Fototage Trier, Berlin (12 November - 12 December); and Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia (20-27 November).

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Permanent Error (29 July - 4 September 2010)

PREVIOUS WORKS

Nollywood (15 January - 21 February 2009)
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, where he continues to live. He underwent a two-year residency in 2002-3 at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. Recent solo shows have taken place at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York (2010); Le Chateau d'Eau in Toulouse, France (2010); the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia (2009), and Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (2008). Group exhibitions include 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