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Pieter Hugo
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Solo exhibitions

2008 The Hyena and Other Men, FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
God's Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam
Portraits, FFotogallery, Cardiff
Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Nollywood, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg
WORKS 2002- 2007, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
Messina/Musina, National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
Portraits: Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2007 The Hyena and Other Men, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome
Messina/ Musina, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 touring exhibition
Messina/ Musina, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007 South African National Gallery,
Cape Town
Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles

2006 Presence, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg
Presence, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva

2004 The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon
The Albino Project, Museum of Modern Art, Rome
Rwanda 2004: Partial Remains and Personal Affects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

Selected group exhibitions

2008 Room for Justice, Palais de Justice, Brussels Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
Street & Studio: An urban history of photography, Tate Modern, London
Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Presumed Innocence: Photographic perspectives of children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts

2007 Lumo '07 - 'us', 7. International Triennial of Photography, Finland
Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 1, Hereford Photography Festival< Hereford, UK
An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
In Your Face, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
Family Relation, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg
Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico, FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan
Reality Check: Contemporary art photography from South Africa 2007, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and other venues, Germany
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

2006 South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Como Viver Junto, 27th São Paulo Bienal, Brazil
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Chile
Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), China
Tour - Cape Town to Miami, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna)
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Nie Meer, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, USA

2005 Re:Generation: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Re:Generation: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Aperture Gallery, New York

2003 Staged Realities - The Studio in African Photography, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
From Chaos to Order and Back, DDD Gallery, Osaka / Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo

2002 Margin, The Cold Room Photographic Gallery, Cape Town
Positions of South African Photography - Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf

2001 New South African Art, JAK Gallery, London

Awards

2008 Discovery Award, Rencontres d'Arles Festival
KLM Paul Huf Award

2007 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007

2006 First prize, Portraits section, World Press Photo 2006
Getty Images Young Photographers


Publications

THE HYENA AND OTHER MEN, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Prestel, 2007. Text by Adekotunbo Abiola
MESSINA/MUSINA,photographs by Pieter Hugo. Transcript of a conversation between Pieter Hugo and Joanna Lehan. Text by Stacy Hardy Punctum Editions 2007
LOOKING ASIDE, photographs by Pieter Hugo. Text by Antjie Krog. Punctum 2006
FACE: the New Photographic Portrait, edited by William A. Ewing. Thames & Hudson 2006
Black, Brown, White. Photography from South Africa. Kunsthalle Wien 2006
Regeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow. Aperture and Thames and Hudson 2005

Bibliography

O'Hagan, Sean. "Africa as you've never seen it." By The Observer. 20 July 2008
"Pieter Hugo and The Hyena Men of Nigeria." British Journal of Photography. 14 May 2008
Russell, Ruby. "Street & Studio: Sharp photographs and blurred boundaries." Telegraph. 17 May 2008.
Searle, Adrian . "All Human Life." The Guardian. 21 May 2008.
Grafik, Claire. "Who Are You Looking At? Claire Grafik on Pieter Hugo." Art on Paper March/April 2008.
Dempsey, Kate, Ed. "Presumed Innocence." DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. 2008
Johnson, Ken. "Pieter Hugo: 'The Hyena and Other Men' ['Last Chance' review]." The New York Times 11 January 2008: E27.
Johnson, Ken. "Pieter Hugo: 'The Hyena and Other Men' [review]." The New York Times 4 January 2008: E31.
Doran, Anne. "Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men [review]." Time Out New York 10-16 January 2008: 71. Callahan, Christine.
"Man Tames Beast: Pieter Hugo's camera boldly investigates dominance and submission." Gay City News 3-9 January 2008.
"Pieter Hugo [review]." The New Yorker 7 January 2008.
Gilbert, Alan. "My Hyena." Village Voice 2 January 2008.
Verrecas, Goedele. "Pieter Hugo: Mensen aan de rand en erover." Snoecks [Belgium] 2008.

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