(b. 1962, Paris. Lives and works in New York.)
Pierre Huyghe was educated at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Graphiques et Décoratifs. Huyghe has had numerous international solo exhibitions at such venues as the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2012); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2010); Tate Modern, London, England (2006); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2005); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003); the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2002); the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2001); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000); and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998). He has also participated in a number of international art shows, including Documenta XI (2002), XIII (2012); the Istanbul Biennial (1999); the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1999); Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998); the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (1997); and the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (1995). He was the recipient of a DAAD Artist in Residence grant in Berlin (1999-2000), the Hugo Boss Prize (2002), the Smithsonian American Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award (2010), and the Roswitha Haftmann Preis Award (2013).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2012
El Dia del Ojo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2011
Streamside Day, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
A Journey That Wasn’t, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Works from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
The Host and the Cloud, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2010
The Host and the Cloud, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
La Saison des Fêtes, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2009-2010
The Host and the Cloud, a live experience, The National Museum of Art and Popular Traditions, Paris, France.
2007
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Celebration Park, MUSAC, Castillia y León, Spain
2006
Celebration Park, Tate Modern, London, England; ARC, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris,
France
2005
Streamside Day, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
The Puppet Show, Eastside projects, Birmingham, Grande Bretagne
MODERNITY? Perspectives from France and Turkey, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turquie
Cranford Collection. Out of the House, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid
Paint it black, FRAC – Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
EXPO 1: New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
The Black Moon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
2011
You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
UNESCO Mobile Museum, France, Africa
Después del silencio, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Once Upon a Time, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, England
Dear Thin and Thick, ME Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Caractères FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre ! Villa Arson, Nice, France
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Il Tempo del Postino, Theater Basel, Art 40 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Part II: Realisms, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
2007
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice,
Italy