Pieter Hugo (born 1976)
is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture.
He lives in
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
.
[Leah Ollman (9 February 2007)]
Photography that goes only skin deep
''Los Angeles Times
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''.
Hugo has had four monographs published. He has had solo exhibitions at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2018), Museum für Kuns und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.''
It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...
, Germany, National Portrait Gallery, London, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and the South African National Gallery, Cape Town. He has been included in group exhibitions at the
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
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in Seoul, the
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
, the Netherlands,
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is ...
, London,
DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, and
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile.
Early life
Hugo was born in
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
, South Africa.
Career
He began his career working in the film industry in Cape Town, before undertaking a two-year residency at
Fabrica research centre
Fabrica (est. 1994) is a communications research centre in Treviso, Italy financed by the Benetton Group. It produces ''Colors'' magazine amongst other projects.
The centre aims to combine culture with industry and offers young people the opportu ...
, Treviso, Italy.
Hugo has had four
monograph
A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject.
In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
s published: ''Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men'' (2008), ''Pieter Hugo: Selected Works'' (2009), ''This Must Be the Place'' (2012), and ''Pieter Hugo: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' (2017).
He has produced fashion photography features for ''Arena Homme Plus'', ''Re-Edition Magazine'', ''Document Journal'', ''System Magazine'' and ''AnOther Man''. He has also collaborated on publications with
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French high-end luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ranging from luxury bags and leather ...
and
Hood By Air
Hood By Air is a high fashion brand based in New York City first launched in 2006 and active to the present day, with the exception of a hiatus between early 2017 – 2019. The brand was co-founded by designers, Shayne Oliver and Raul Lopez. The ...
.
Hugo has contributed to publications such as ''The New Yorker'', ''Zeit'' magazine, ''Le Monde'' and ''The New York Times Magazine''. In May 2015 he was invited to guest edit the supplement ''DeLuxe'' for the Dutch newspaper ''NRC.nl''.
In 2011 Hugo collaborated with Michael Cleary, co-directing the music video for South African musician
Spoek Mathambo
Nthato Mokgata (born 14 May 1985), known by his stage name Spoek Mathambo, is a South African artist, producer, singer-songwriter and rapper. Mathambo rose to fame in the late 2000s with his fusion of a wide array of musical influences. He is kno ...
's cover version of
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
Sumner and Hook formed the band after attend ...
's "
She's Lost Control
"She's Lost Control" is a song by British post-punk band Joy Division. Released on their 1979 debut album, ''Unknown Pleasures'', "She's Lost Control" was first performed live by the band in June 1978 and draws primary lyrical inspiration fro ...
". For the video, Hugo won the Young Director Award at the
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (formerly the International Advertising Festival) is a global event for those working in creative communications, advertising, and related fields. It is considered the largest gathering of the ...
.
In 2015 he directed the music video for "Dirty", a song by South African musical artists Dookoom.
Work
Hugo's work is governed by a
self-taught
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approach to photography. He is one of a generation of post-
Apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
photographers that seeks to confront photography's history of representing marginalised and disempowered people. His work aims to challenge preconceptions around the representation of groups of people 'other' to the Western European norm.
Hugo's first major work ''Looking Aside'' (2006) depicts portraits of people "whose appearance makes us look aside"
– the blind, people with albinism, the aged, his family and himself.
Each of these portraits has the subject posed in a sterile studio setting, under crisp light against a blank background.
His ''Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide'' (2011) was described by the Rwanda Genocide Institute as offering "a forensic view of some of the sites of mass execution and graves that stand as lingering memorials to the many thousands of people slaughtered." Hugo's most recognized work is ''The Hyena & Other Men'' (2007), which has received a great deal of attention.
His series ''Messina/Mussina'' (2007) was made in the town of
Musina
Musina (; formerly Messina) is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is located near the confluence of the Limpopo River with the Sand River and the border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40, ...
on the border between
Zimbabwe
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and South Africa,
after ''
Colors
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'' magazine asked Hugo to work on an AIDS story.
''Nollywood'' (2009) consists of pictures of the Nigerian film industry. For ''Permanent Error'' (2011) Hugo photographed the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana.
''There is a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends'' (2012) depicts Hugo's family and friends from South Africa in digitally manipulated black and white portraits that aim to explore the contradictions of racial classification based on skin colour. ''Kin'' (2014) places even greater emphasis on the photographer's family and community which Hugo describes as "an engagement with the failure of the South African colonial experiment and my sense of being 'colonial driftwood'."
''The Journey'' (2014) is a series of infrared images of sleeping passengers taken on a sixteen-hour flight from
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
to
Atlanta
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. Hugo prefaces the work which was presented both as an exhibition (2014) and newspaper format publication (2015) with a reflective monologue on the way that
infrared images from the first invasion during the
Iraq War
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have shifted associations with the medium from wildlife photography to conflict zones, and how contemporary surveillance has effectively challenged notions of the privacy and ownership of one's representation.
In the Spring of 2014, Hugo was commissioned by
Creative Court to work in Rwanda for its "Rwanda 20 Years: Portraits of Reconciliation" project. The project was displayed in The Hague in the Atrium of
The Hague City Hall
The Hague City Hall (''Stadhuis'') is the city hall of The Hague, Netherlands.
History
The city hall was designed in 1986 by the American architect Richard Meier and completed in 1995.
Architecture
It is located in the new city centre, and ...
for the 20th commemoration of the
1994 genocide in Rwanda. A selection of the photos have also been displayed in New York at the exhibition ''Post-Conflict'' which was curated by Bradley McCallum, artist in residence for the
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
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. The project served as the impetus for the photographic series ''1994'' (2017) which explores the post-revolutionary era in both South Africa and Rwanda through a series of portraits of children from both countries.
''Flat Noodle Soup'' (2016) chronicles Hugo's lengthy engagement with the city of Beijing, exploring how concerns with expressing personal identity within societal norms and pressures are universal and trans-national.
''La Cucaracha'' is a 2019 body of work made during four trips to Mexico over a two-year period.
The photographic series explores Hugo's perception of the flamboyant and violent environment of Mexico with overt art historical references to the nation's visual canon of precolonial customs and revolutionary ideology.
Personal life
As of 2013, Hugo was married to film editor Tamsyn Reynolds, with whom he has two children.
Publications
Publications by Hugo
* ''Looking Aside.'' Punctum, 2006. .
* ''The Hyena & Other Men'' Munich:
Prestel
Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office Telecommunications's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maxim ...
, 2007. . With an essay by Adetokunbo Abiola.
* ''Messina/Musina.'' Munich: Punctum, 2007. . With a short story by
Stacy Hardy
Stacy M. Hardy is a writer, journalist, multimedia artist and theatre practitioner.
She is a founding member of the'' Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company'', which has produced 8 original productions since 1995. She has lectured and tutored in th ...
, "The Donkey Fuckers", and a conversation between Hugo and Joanna Lehan.
* ''Nollywood.'' Munich: Prestel, 2009. . With texts by
Chris Abani, Stacy Hardy and
Zina Saro-Wiwa.
* ''Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide.'' London; Paris: oodee, 2011. . Edition of 500 copies. With an essay by
Linda Melvern
Linda Melvern is a British investigative journalist. Early in her career, she worked for '' The Evening Standard'' and then ''The Sunday Times'' (UK), including on the investigative Insight Team. Since leaving the newspaper she has written seven ...
.
* ''Permanent Error.'' Munich: Prestel, 2011. .
* ''This Must Be The Place: Selected Works.'' Munich: Prestel, 2012. . With essays by
TJ Demos
T.J. Demos is an art historian and cultural critic who writes on contemporary art and visual culture, particularly in relation to globalization, politics, migration and ecology. Currently a Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visua ...
and
Aaron Schuman
Aaron Schuman (born 1977) is an American photographer, writer, curator and educator based in the United Kingdom. His books of photography include ''Folk'' (2016), ''Slant'' (2019) and ''Sonata'' (2022).
Life and work Early life and education
Aaron ...
.
* ''J-SEK.'' London: One League, 2012. Produced by Hugo and
Louis Vuitton
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with an essay by Montle Moorosi.
* ''There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends.'' London; Paris: oodee, 2012. .
* ''Kin.'' New York:
Aperture
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An opt ...
, 2014. . With a short story by
Ben Okri
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British Council, ...
.
* ''The Journey.'' Self-published, 2015. Newspaper format.
* ''Flat Noodle Soup Talk.'' Paris: Bessard, 2016. . Edition of 500 copies. Photographs made in Beijing.
* ''PH&HBA. Pieter Hugo in collaboration with Hood by AIr.'' 2016. . London: See W.
* ''1994.'' Munich: Prestel. 2017. . With text by Ashraf Jamal.
* ''Pieter Hugo. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.'' 2017. Ralf Beil & Uta Ruhkamp (ed.) Munich: Prestel
* ''La Cucaracha.'' Barcelona: RM, 2019. . With essays by Mario Bellatin and Ashraf Jamal. Edition of 1500 copies.
Books and catalogues
* Ewing, William; Nathalie Herschdorfer and Jean-Christophe Blaser. 2005. reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005–2006. New York: Aperture. .
* Matt, Gerald et al. 2006. Black, Brown, White: Photography from South Africa. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien. .
* Ewing, William (ed). 2006. Face: The New Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson. .
* Yildiz, Adnan et al. 2007. An Atlas of Events. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
* Hug, Alfonso et al. 2008. The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe. Bielefeld: Kerber. .
* Dempsey, Kate (ed). 2008. Presumed Innocence. Lincoln, Massachusetts: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. .
* De Cultura, Área, and Ajuntament de Tarragona (eds). 2009. Pieter Hugo: Selected Works. Tarragona: Tinglado 2. .
* Cresci, Mario (ed). 2009. Future Images. Milan: 24 ORE Cultura. .
* Blackwell, Lewis. 2009. Photo-wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art. Auckland: PQ Blackwell. .
* Maggia, Filippo et al. 2010. ''Breaking News: Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa.'' Milan: Skira. .
* Enwezor, Okwui (ed). 2010. ''Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity''. Göttingen: Steidl. .
* Celant, Germano and Melissa Harris (eds). 2010. ''Immagini Inquietanti''. Milan: La Triennale di Milano. Exhibition catalogue.
* Rubenstein, Bonnie, et al. 2011. ''Figure + Ground. Contact Photography Festival.'' Toronto: Scotiabank. 2011 Festival Catalogue.
* Ovesen, Solvej Helweg and Katerina Gregos (eds). 2011. ''The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind. 4.'' Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen. Heidelberg: Kehrer. .
* Krifa, Michket and Laura Serani (eds). 2011. ''For A Sustainable World. Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial, 9th Edition''. Arles and Paris: Actes Sud and Institut Français. .
* Kemfert, Beate and Christina Leber (eds). 2011. ''Road Atlas: Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo.'' Munich: Hirmer. .
* Herschdorfer, Nathalie. 2011. ''Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past''. London: Thames & Hudson. .
* Gavin, Francesca. 2011.''100 New Artists''. London: Laurence King. .
* Garb, Tamar. 2011. ''Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography''. Göttingen and London: Steidl and V&A. .
* Fabiani, Francesca. 2011. ''Re-cycle. Strategie per l'architettura, la città e il pianeta''. Rome: MAXXI and Elekta. .
* Beckmann, Anne-Marie and Freddy Langer. 2011. ''XL Photography 4: Art Collection.'' Deutsche Börse. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. .
* Markus Brüderlin (ed.), 2013. ''Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present,'' 2013. Exhibition catalogue. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
* ''Nine Weeks.'' Cape Town: Stevenson, 2016. . Pieter Hugo in conversation with Hansi Momodu-Gordon.
* Jamal, Ashraf. 2017. Giants'. In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art''. Skira: Milan.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
* 2004: ''The Albino Project,''
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
The ("national gallery of modern and contemporary art"), also known as La Galleria Nazionale, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then Minister Guido Baccelli and is dedicated to modern and contempora ...
, Rome, Italy, 2004; Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.
* 2007: ''Messina/Musina,''
Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2007 touring exhibition, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2008
* 2007: ''Pieter Hugo: The Hyena & Other Men,''
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documen ...
, Netherlands, 2008;
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, 2010; Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland, 2010;
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
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, 2012
* 2008: ''Nollywood,'' Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008; Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia, 2009;
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2010;
* 2008: ''Portraits,''
Open Eye Gallery
Open Eye Gallery is a photography gallery and archive in Liverpool, UK that was established in 1977. It is housed in a purpose-built building on the waterfront at Mann Island, its fourth location.
Open Eye Gallery comprises an exhibition space ...
, Liverpool, UK, 2008;
Ffotogallery
Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales. It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in Cathays, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current dire ...
, Cardiff, UK, 2008
* 2008: ''Pieter Hugo: Selected Works,'' Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain, 2008 Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain, 2009.
* 2010: ''On Reality and Other Stories,''
Le château d'eau, pôle photographique de Toulouse
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...
, Toulouse, France, 2010; Forest Centre Culturel, BRASS, Brussels, Belgium, 2010
* 2010: ''Permanent Error,''
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2011;
* 2013: ''This must be the place – Selected works 2003–2012,''
Museum Ludwig
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, Budapest
* 2015: ''Portraits: From the unsaid to the un-dead,'' Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius
* 2015: ''In Focus,''
National Portrait Gallery, London
* 2015–2016: Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2015;
* 2017: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.''
It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...
, Wolfsburg, Germany.
* 2017: ''Verisimilar Worlds: The West African Works 2005–2010,'' Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
* 2017–2018: ''Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,''
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany,2017; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.
* 2018: Aquí se rompió una taza,
Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo
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* Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
*Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Duq ...
, Oaxaca, Mexico
*2019: Africa to China,
Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China.
*2019–2020: ''La Cucaracha,'' Huxley Parlour, London, 2020
Group exhibitions
* 2010: ''Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art,''
Ffotogallery
Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales. It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in Cathays, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current dire ...
, Cardiff, Wales
* 2010: ''1910–2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective,''
Iziko South African National Gallery
The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It then became an agenc ...
, Cape Town, South Africa
* 2010: ''Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape,'' Iziko Old Town House Museum,
* 2010: ''After A, Photo Notes on South Africa,'' Atri Reportage Festival, Atri, Italy
* 2010: ''Disquieting Images,'' Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
* 2010: ''Counterlives,''
Ackland Art Museum
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,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, Chapel Hill, NC
*2011: ''Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography,''
Victoria and Albert Museum
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, London
*2011: ''For a Sustainable World,''
African Photography Encounters
African Photography Encounters (french: Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie) is a biennial exhibition in Bamako, Mali, held since 1994. The exhibition, featuring exhibits by contemporary African photographers, is spread over several Bamako ...
Bamako, Mali
*2011: ''The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989,''
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...
, Germany
*2011: ''The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind,'' Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany
*2011: ''ARS 11,'' Kiasma, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
*2011: ''Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa,'' Stellenbosch University Art Museum, South Africa
*2011: ''Il corpo metafora di un'esperienza,'' CIAC Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
*2011: Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
*2011: ''Beguiling: The Self and the Subject,'' Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
*2011: ''All Cannibals,'' Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
*2011: Paraty em Foco photography festival, Brazil
*2012: Bienal de Fotografía de Lima, Peru
*2012: FotoTriennale.dk, Funen, Denmark
*2012: Moscow Photobiennale, Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
*2012: ''International Art Exhibition,'' Rwesero Arts Museum, Nyanza, Rwanda
*2012: ''Qui Vive?'' 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
*2012: ''Photography of The Rainbow Nation,''
Beelden aan Zee
Beelden aan Zee ("Images/sculptures by the sea") museum in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, founded in 1994 by the sculpture collectors Theo and Lida Scholten, is the only Dutch museum which specializes in exhibiting sculpture.
The mus ...
, The Hague, the Netherlands
*2012: ''Africa, There and Back,''
Museum Folkwang
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, Essen, Germany
*2012: ''Transitions – Social Landscape Project,''
Market Photo Workshop
The Market Photo Workshop is a school of photography, a gallery, and a project space in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 1989 by David Goldblatt. It offers training in visual literacy for neglected and marginalized parts of South African soc ...
, Johannesburg, South Africa
*2012:
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
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2012,
The Photographers' Gallery
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It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established i ...
, London
*2012: ''Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II: Contemporary Reconfigurations,''
The Walther Collection
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Project Space, New York City
*2013: ''Nothing to Declare?,''
Academy of Arts, Berlin
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The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
, Germany
*2013: ''Landmark: The Fields of Photography,''
Somerset House
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, London
*2013: ''Either/Or,''
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
*2013: ''The Glorious Rise and Fall ... (and so on),'' , 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
*2013: ''Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive,'' The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
*2013: ''Transition: Social Landscape,''
Rencontres d'Arles
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festival, Arles, France
*2013: '' Present Tense,''
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France, Paris
*2013: ''Art and Textile: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present,''
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.''
It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...
, Germany
*2014: ''Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa'' at the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, nati ...
, San Francisco, USA
*2014: ''Apartheid and After,''
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest photography museum in Amsterdam, opened in 1999. Huis Marseille was the first photography museum in the Netherlands when it opened in 1999; the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Fotomuseu ...
, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
*2014: ''Present Tense,''
Galeria Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
*2014: ''Here Africa,'' , Geneve-Pregny, Switzerland
*2014: ''Animalis,'' Fundació Forvm per la Fotografia, Tarragona, Spain
*2014: ''T.R.I.P. Travel Routes in Photography,''
Baths of Diocletian
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, caption = Baths of Diocletian, with the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri built in the remains of the baths.
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, Rome, Italy
*2014'': Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3),'' New Orleans Biennial, USA
*2015: ''Prix Pictet: Disorder,''
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (, Paris' Museum of Modern Art) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri ...
, Paris; Somerset House, London; et al.
*2015: ''I will go there, take me home,''
Metropolitan Arts Centre
The Metropolitan Arts Centre, usually referred to as the MAC, is an arts venue in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter and is home to all kinds of exhibitions, theatre performances, experimental works.
The MAC is a cultural hub and a vital shared space ...
, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
*2015: ''Beastly/Tierisch,''
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland.
History
The museum was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is an art g ...
, Switzerland
*2015: ''Strange Worlds,'' , Foro Boario, Modena, Italy
*2016: ''A Closer Look: Portraits from the Paul G Allen Family Collection,'' Pivot Art + Culture,
Allen Institute, Seattle, USA
*2016: ''Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism,''
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...
, Israel
*2017: ''Lavoro in Movimento/Work in Motion,'' MAST Foundation, Bologna
*2017: ''Good Hope. South Africa and The Netherlands from 1600,''
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
, the Netherlands
*2017: ''10 Years Old 2007–2017: A History of the World Told Through the Images of the Fondazione Cassa,'' di Risparmio di Modena Collection, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Foro Boario, Italy
*2017: ''Up to Now. Fabrica Photography,'' Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy as part of ''Time maps. Memory, archives, future,'' Fotografia Europea Festival
*2017: ''AFRICA. Telling a world,''
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli.
History
In 1947 the Municipality o ...
, Milan, Italy
*2017: ''Dangerous Art,''
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
*2018: ''Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins,''
Barbican Art Gallery
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, London
*2018: ''In This Imperfect Present Moment,''
Seattle Art Museum
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, Washington, USA
*2018: ''Troubled Intensions Ahead:'' ''Confusing Public and Private,'' 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, China
*2018: ''Civilization: The Way We Live Now,''
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
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, Seoul, South Korea; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; and the National Museum of Civilization, Marseille, France.
*2018: ''Hacer Noche (Crossing Night),'' Oaxaca, Mexico
*2018: ''Recent Histories / Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection,''
Huis Marseille
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest photography museum in Amsterdam, opened in 1999. Huis Marseille was the first photography museum in the Netherlands when it opened in 1999; the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Fotomuseu ...
, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*2019: ''Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs,''
J. Paul Getty Museum
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The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and fea ...
, Los Angeles, CA
*2019: ''Here We Are Today: A View of The World in Photography & Video Art,''
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
*2019: ''Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context,''
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit.
MOCAD is housed in a building, a converted former auto dealership designed by architect Andrew Zago. The architecture of the building ...
, MI
* 2019: ''IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy,''
Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The Centre for Fine Arts (french: Palais des Beaux-Arts, nl, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as BOZAR (a homophone of ''Beaux-arts'') in French or PSK in Dutch. The b ...
, Brussels, Belgium
*2020: ''Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection,''
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...
, Houston, Texas
*2020: ''Civilisation, Photography, Now'',
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions.
Set be ...
, Auckland, New Zealand.
*2020: ''Five Stories, One Point of View,'' MUSAC Collection,
Museo de Arte Contermporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain.
*2020: ''Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art'' from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL.
References
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1976 births
Living people
Artists from Cape Town
South African photographers
Portrait photographers