Pieter Hugo is one of four photographers nominated for the prestigious 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which is awarded annually to the photographer who has made the most notable contribution to the photography field in Europe. The Prize exhibition, featuring work from Mr. Hugo's Permanent Error series, will take place in summer 2012 at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and will travel to the Deutsche Börse Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The other nominees are Rinko Kawauchi, Christopher Williams and John Stezaker. For more information, please visit: http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbag/dispatch/en/kir/gdb_navigation/about_us/30_Art_Collection/25_photography_prize and http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=594
Doug Rickard was one of six artists included in the exhibition New Photography 2011 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York—the annual show that exhibits new and compelling contemporary photographers. The other artists are: Zhang Dali, Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson and Viviane Sassen. The exhibition opened on September 28, 2011, and ran through January 16, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/newphotography/
Pieter Hugo has a solo exhibition currently on view at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, which includes 27 photographs from his series Permanent Error. This is part of a larger exhibition, Re-cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet, a group exhibition of projects and artworks by design firms and artists addressing issues of recycling and sustainability. The show runs from December 1, 2011 – April 29, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/?p=14858&lang=en&page=9#pieter
Yuki Onodera had a solo exhibition at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon sur Saône, which was her first retrospective in France. The show was on view from October 14, 2011, through January 22, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.museeniepce.com/en/exhibitions/64-expositions-du-14-octobre-2011-au-22-janvier-2012
Jacob Aue Sobol’s series Sabine was featured in the exhibition Face of Our Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which opened on July 2, 2011, and ran through October 16, 2011. He was one of four artists in the show, which focused on photographers observing and documenting political and societal transformations. The other artists were Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi and Daniel Schwartz. The show will travel to the University of Michigan Museum of Art and will be on view from November 12, 2011 – February 5, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/876 and http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-faceofourtime.php?image=2
Doug Rickard was included in the group exhibition HERE. at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, CA. The exhibition included over 700 works by established and emerging photographers who have taken images of San Francisco and the Bay Area’s dynamic landscape. Mr. Rickard’s photographs from his series A New American Picture were part of the show, which was on view through January 31, 2012. Other artists in the exhibition were: Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Paul Graham, Irving Penn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others. For more information, please visit: http://www.pier24.org/exhibition/current.html
Pieter Hugo has won the top prize at the 9th Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennal in Mali, which is Africa’s most notable photography festival. For more information, please visit: http://rencontres-bamako.com/?lang=en
Philippe Gronon was part of the exhibition Library Science at Artspace in New Haven, CT, which was on view from November 12, 2011 – January 28, 2012. The exhibition included 22 emerging and established contemporary artists whose work is inspired by libraries and explores the relationships we have with the library in the new digital age. For more information, please visit: http://artspacenh.org/
Photographs from Sze Tsung Leong’s History Images series were included in the exhibition, Highrise: Idea and Reality, at the Museum of Design Zurich. The exhibition focused on the increased construction of high-rise buildings throughout the past ten years in cities around the globe. The show was on view from August 31, 2011, through February 1, 2012. For more information, please visit: http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-2011/high-rise/
Mark Ruwedel’s work was exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV, from September 24, 2011 - January 15, 2012. The exhibition, The Altered Landscape, celebrated the museum’s 80th anniversary and included work from the photography collection that examine our affects on the environment. For more information, please visit: http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/detail?eid=197
Loretta Lux was included in the group exhibition, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. The show traveled to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale from June 5, 2011 – September 25, 2011, and to The Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie from October 22, 2011 – January 1, 2012. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.noma.org/pressroom/PressReleases/45Mar23.09.pdf
Work by David Goldes is currently on display at Walker Art Center’s Midnight Party exhibition. The show, which opened March 19, 2011, will run through February 23, 2014, and features artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mark Rothko and Matthew Barney. For more information, please visit: http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=5893&title=Current%20Exhibitions. An additional introduction video for the exhibition can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4JfTu-LWo
Doug Rickard is included in a two-person exhibition entitled, Publicly Private: Enrico Natali and Doug Rickard, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The artist’s series, A New American Picture, will be paired with Enrico Natali’s photographs from the 1960s to contrast unique documentary styles of photography addressing issues of privacy. It will run from January 14, 2012, through April 22, 2012. For more information. Please visit: http://www.sbmuseart.org/exhibitions/upcoming/index.web
Mohamed Bourouissa was included in the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which was entitled ILLUMInations. The exhibition opened on June 4, 2011, and ran through November 27, 2011. For more information on the Biennale, please visit: http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/54iae/
Photographs from Sze Tsung Leong’s History Images series were included in a group exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, The Life and Death of Buildings, which ran from July 23, 2011 – November 6, 2011. The show presented an international array of iconic photographs ranging from the 1840s to present day that focuses on the relationship between architecture, photography and time. For more information, please visit: http://puam.princeton.edu/lifeanddeathofbuildings/
Kohei Yoshiyuki had a solo exhibition at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. The show presented photographs from Mr. Yoshiyuki’s series The Park and ran through October 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://presentationhousegallery.org/exhibitions/past/
Mark Ruwedel was included in the group exhibition Our Origins at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL. The artists in this exhibition use photography, video, drawing and sculpture to reflect on our natural history and origins. The show was on view through October 16, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2011/07/post_1.php
Pieter Hugo was included in the ARS 11 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland, which opened April 15, 2011 and ran through November 27, 2011. ARS 11 was a large-scale, international event and exhibition investigating Africa through contemporary art. For more information, please visit: http://www.kiasma.fi/calendar/exhibitions/ars11
Andrew Bush was included in the exhibition Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am. at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. The show, which opened June 8, 2011, and ran through October 9, 2011, focused on artwork influenced by the automobile. Other artists included: Andy Warhol, Jean Tinguely, Robert Frank, Gerhard Richter and Chris Burden. For more information, please visit: http://www.tinguely.ch/en/ausstellungen_events/austellungen/2011/Fetisch-Auto.html
As the winner of the 2011 Sony World Photography Award, Alejandro Chaskielberg was featured in the exhibition Sony World Photography Awards Exhibitions at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, which ran from October 13 through November 5. In addition to the exhibition, the Chelsea Art Museum hosted events surrounding the upcoming Sony World Photography Awards, including an artist’s talk with Mr. Chaskielberg and the curator of the exhibition, Elisabeth Biondi, on Wednesday, October 26, from 6:15 – 7:30PM. For more information on the exhibition and related events, please visit: http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/portfolios/sony-world-photography-awards-world-photography-ny-events/
A New American Picture, Doug Rickard’s photographic series of Google Street Views, was included in the exhibition From Here On at Les Recontres d’Arles in Arles, France. Co-curated by Martin Parr, the show focused on artists and photographers who use the internet as part of their work and ran through September 18, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_7&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English
An exhibition of Simen Johan’s work, Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes, featured photographs, sculptures and new works from his ongoing series. It was on view at 21c Museum in Louisville, KY from July 2 – October 4, 2010, and traveled to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, from February 20 – May 29, 2011. Mr. Johan had another solo exhibition entitled, Simen Johan: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, at the Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University’s Meadow School of the Arts in Dallas, TX, from August 29 – October 8, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://mcs.smu.edu/calendar/event/pollock-gallery-simen-johan-until-kingdom-comes
A photograph from Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series The Park was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Night Vision: Photography After Dark. The show focused on night photography and artists who explore this artistic genre and was on view through September 18, 2011. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={4F9E1DE0-D720-40FF-ACF3-ACFA8C4673A7}
Photographs from Mohamed Bourouissa’s Périphéries series were included in the exhibition, 1.85 Millions: Art Peripheries, at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia. The show focused on living in the periphery of a major city and was on view through October 23, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/event/30931/185-million-art-peripheries.htm
The Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s group exhibition, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, featured photographs from Mark Ruwedel’s Crossing and Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park series. The exhibition was curated by Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the SFMoMA, with Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate, and Ann Coxon, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. The show dealt with the boundary between private and public, as many of these photographs were taken without the subject’s consent or awareness. Exposed was on view through September 18, 2011 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, please visit: http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=6019&title=Current%20Exhibitions
Mark Ruwedel’s work was selected by Simon Baker, Curator of Photography at the Tate Modern in London, for inclusion in the Points of View section at Les Recontres d’Arles 2011, which opened July 4 and ran through September 18, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_76&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English
Sze Tsung Leong’s photographs from the History Images series were included in the exhibition, The More Things Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show included works from the museum’s evolving collection and recent acquisitions and was on view through November 6, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/857
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series The Park was featured in a solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia, from July 2 through August 13, 2011. The photographs traveled to the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne, Australia, where it was part of the group show, In Camera and In Public. The exhibition, curated by CCP’s Director, Naomi Cass, investigated the relationship between the photographer and subject, the voyeur and the observed. It was on view from September 16 – October 23, 2011. The last venue for the photographs will be Adam Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. For more information, please visit: http://www.ccp.org.au/exhibitions.php?f=20111023_Gallery_1
Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary were awarded a Young Directors Award in the music video category at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival in Cannes, France, for their black-and-white music video for Spoek Mathambo’s Control. For more information, please visit: http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-24-pieter-hugo-wins-young-director-award-at-cannes
Alejandro Chaskielberg was awarded the L’Iris D’Or, the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. He joins previous winners such as David Zimmerman, Tommaso Ausili and Vanessa Winship as a member of the World Photographic Academy. For more information, please visit: http://www.worldphoto.org/news-and-events/wpo-news/sony-world-photography-awards-2011-winners-announced/
Josef Schulz’s photographs were on view in Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 in Toronto, Canada, from May 1, 2011 – August 29, 2011. The exhibition was presented in partnership with The Greater Toronto Airports Authority and the Goethe Institute. For more information, please visit: http://torontopearson.com/en/shopdinerelax/art-exhibits/changing/
Pieter Hugo was included in the exhibition Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The museum show focused on the thriving photographic culture that arose in post-apartheid South Africa. Figures and Fictions opened Monday, April 11 and ran through Sunday, July 17, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/documents/press-releases/2010/v&a-figures&fictions.pdf
Alessandra Sanguinetti’s book, On the Sixth Day, has been included in Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade, a selection of 30 photo books from around the world. The books were exhibited as part of the PhotoIreland Festival and took place at the National Photographic Archive in Dublin, Ireland, between July 15 and August 14, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://2011.photoireland.org/program/martin-parrs/
Loretta Lux was included in a group show, From our Collections: Portraits, at the Glenbow Museum in Alberta, Canada, which ran through June 19, 2011. The show focused on artists from the museum’s collection who explore the tradition of portraiture. For further information, please visit: http://dev.glenbow.org/exhibitions/past/2010-2011/foc/portraits.cfm
Photographs from Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams and The Life that Came was selected from the 29th Bienal de São Paulo exhibition as part of a program to tour the work to 13 Brazilian cities. The photographs traveled to the Palacio das Artes in Belo Horizante, Brazil from January 18 – March 20, 2011, and were recently at their last venue, the Modern Art Museum Aloísio Magalhães in Recife, Brazil from June 29 – August 21, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mamam.art.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207:exposicao-em-cartaz-l-29o-bienal-de-sao-paulo-obras-selecionadas&catid=45:exposicoes
A selection of Pieter Hugo’s Permanent Error photographs were on view in outdoor installations throughout the city of Toronto, Canada, through June 4, 2011, as part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. For more information, please visit: http://2011.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/619
A solo exhibition of Ezra Stoller’s photographs entitled, Capturing an Icon: Ezra Stoller and Modern Architecture, was recently on view through May 16, 2011, at Gallery See, SCAD Atlanta. The show traveled to Pinnacle Gallery in Savannah, also part of the SCAD Galleries, from June 30 – August 5, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/view/2011/ezra-stoller.cfm
Youssef Nabil’s photographs was included in the exhibition, Images affranchise [Liberated Images], at the second edition of the Marrakech Art Fair in Marrakech, Morocco, which took place at the Palace Es Saadi from September 30 – October 3, 2011. The exhibition brought together Arab contemporary artists focusing on photography and video. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48314.
Lise Sarfati recently had a solo exhibition at Magnum Gallery in Paris, Lise Sarfati: La Vie Nouvelle—The New Life, which opened on March 17, 2011 and ran through April 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.magnumgallery.fr/?rubrique=expositions&expo=36
Alessandra Sanguinetti was part of a group show at Edel Assanti in London. The exhibition, Between Two Worlds: A Window onto Contemporary Photography from Latin America, surveyed established and emerging Latin American photographers who juxtapose reality and fantasy. The show opened on March 24, 2011, and ran through April 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.edelassanti.com/exhibitiondetails.php?ID=96
Work by Loretta Lux and Sze Tsung Leong was featured at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York in an exhibition entitled Mannerism & Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs. The exhibition was on view from January 21 – May 1, 2011 and included artists such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra. For more information please visit: http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=43
Photographs from Myoung Ho Lee’s series Tree were included in an exhibition entitled In Focus: The Tree at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. The exhibition was on view from February 8 – July 3, 2011, and included artists such as Gustave Le Gray, Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Eliot Porter and William Eggleston. For more information, please visit: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_trees/
Sze Tsung Leong was included in an exhibition entitled Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000-2010 at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, from February 25 – May 29, 2011. The exhibition traveled from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where it was on view through January 2, 2011 and featured 20 artists including Leong, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Tina Barney and Martin Parr. For more information, please visit: http://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/pastmuseum
Work by Loretta Lux was included in an exhibition of portraits of children at Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. The exhibition featured over 120 portraits from the 16th Century to present and was on view from March 6 – July 3, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.kunsthalle.at/kunsthalle-krems-en/exhibitions/von-engeln-bengeln?set_language=en
Kelli Connell was included in an exhibition entitled The Truth is Not in the Mirror at The Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The exhibition, which was on view through May 22, 2011, explored photography as a means to construct a narrative and the photographer’s role as a storyteller. For more information, please visit: http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/exhibit_2011_01_photo_portraits.shtml
Photographs from Mark Ruwedel’s series Westward were included in an exhibition entitled Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mr. Ruwedel’s work was represented in the “American West” section of the exhibition, alongside artists such as Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Laura Gilpin, and Richard Misrach. The exhibition was on view from February 8 – June 19, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/conversations
Photographs from Mohamed Bourouissa’s series Peripheries were included in an exhibition entitled ANGRY Young and Radical at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. The exhibition presented works in all media focused on youth in protest, resistance and revolutionary action. Exhibition dates were January 22 – June 13, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/component/option,com_nfm_agenda/task,view/id,276/Itemid,166/lang,en/
Youssef Nabil’s first film, “You Never Left,” starring actors Fanny Ardant and Tahar Rahim, was screened at the inaugural exhibition of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. The exhibition, entitled Told/Untold/Retold, featured work by 23 artists with ties to the Arab world and was on view until May 28, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.mathaf.org.qa/mathaf_exhibitions.html
