Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris , France . He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs , Paris . The artist lives and works in Santiago , Chile .
Huyghe was a recipient of a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin grant ( 1999 – 2000 ). He received a Special Award from the Jury of the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 , where he represented France . In 2002 , he was awarded the Hugo Boss Award at the Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York . In 2010 , Huyghe received the Smithsonian Museum ’ s Contemporary Artist Award , in 2013 , the Swiss Roswitha Haftmann Award , and in 2015 , the Kurt Schwitters Award . Pierre Huyghe is the recipient of the 2017 Nasher Prize , awarded annually by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas .
In 2019 , Pierre Huyghe was named Artistic Director of the Okayama Art Summit : IF THE SNAKE . In 2012 , Huyghe ’ s work Untilled was one of the most critically acclaimed contributions to dOCUMENTA ( 13 ) in Kassel .
Huyghe ’ s practice spans many media , including live situations , films , objects and drawings . His exhibitions are living organisms , in which interdependent , biotic and abiotic , real and symbolic agents – animals , humans , machines – are co-evolving . Those , indistinguishable , are self-organizing in a dynamic and unstable mesh , navigating between necessity and contingency .
Selected solo exhibitions include : Chimeras , EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art , Espoo ( 2023 ); Variants , Kistefos Museum , Jevnaker ( 2022 ); Pierre Huyghe – Offspring , Kunsten , Allborg ( 2022 ); After UUmwelt , Grande Halle , Parc de Ateliers , LUMA , Arles ( 2021 ); Pierre Huyghe , UUmwelt , Serpentine Galleries , London ( 2018 ); Pierre Huyghe : 2017 Nasher Prize Laureate , Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas ( 2017 ); Pierre Huyghe , Espace Louis Vuitton Venice , Venice ( 2017 ); Pierre Huyghe : Untitled ( Human Mask ), Museo Guggenheim Bilbao , Bilbao ( 2017 ); Pierre Huyghe Part I : Untilled Host , Espace Louis Vuitton , Tokyo ( 2017 ); Pierre Huyghe Part II : A Journey That Wasn ’ t – Creature , Espace Louis Vuitton , Tokyo ( 2017 ); Orphan Patterns , Sprengel Museum , Hannover ( 2016 ); Pierre Huyghe : Tarrawarra International 2015 , Tarrawarra Museum of Art , Healesville , Australia ( 2015 ); The Roof Garden Commission , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ( 2015 ); Pierre Huyghe ’ s Untilled ( liegender Frauenakt ), The Museum of Modern Art , New York ( 2015 ); Pierre Huyghe , Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles ( 2014 ), Pierre Huyghe , Museum Ludwig , Cologne ( 2014 ); Pierre Huyghe , Centre Pompidou , Paris ( 2013 ); El Dia del Ojo , Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo , México City ( 2012 ); Pierre Huyghe . La saison des fêtes , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Palacio de Cristal ( 2010 ); Celebration Park , Tate Modern , London and ARC , Musée d ’ art moderne de la Ville de Paris ( both 2006 ); Streamside Day Follies , Dia Center for the Arts , New York ( 2003 ); The Hugo Boss Prize 2002 Exhibition , Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York ( 2003 ); L ’ expédition scintillante . A musical , Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz ( 2002 ), and The Third Memory , Centre Pompidou , Paris ( 2000 ).
The artist ’ s work is represented in the collections of Centre Pompidou , Paris ; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles ; Kunstmuseum Basel ; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ; The Museum of Modern Art , New York ; Musée d ’ Art moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris ; National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa ; Nationalgalerie , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Berlin ; Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York ; Walker Art Center , Minneapolis ; SFMOMA , San Francisco ; Tate Modern , London , among others .
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