Muzi Quawson to be Exhibited at Biennial of Young Artists in Bucharest
Muzi Quawson will be included in the 3rd Biennial of Young Artists in Bucharest, Romania opening on October 4th, 2008. The series Pull Back the Shade will be on view as a projected slideshow of 80 images, the same format shown at the Tate Triennial in 2006. For more information about the exhibition, please visit: http://metacult.ro/reco/
Pieter Hugo Receives the 2008 Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles
The artist Pieter Hugo is the recipient of the prestigious Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival Discovery Award for 2008. Hugo was chosen from a group of fifteen international artists nominated for the award, which is presented annually to a photographer who deserves or has recently received international recognition. Work by Pieter Hugo from his two series The Hyena & Other Men and Wild Honey Collectors is on view at the festival in Arles, France through September 14th. For more information about the festival and award, please visit: http://www.rencontres-arles.com/
Sze Tsung Leong at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel
The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art will exhibit the series Horizons by Sze Tsung Leong from September 6 - November 15, 2008. Curated by Dalia Levin, the show will bring together an extensive representation of the series to date. Over eighty images of landscapes around the world will be placed together with each horizon placed in the same position, creating a spatial continuum out of geographically distant locations. For more information about the museum, please visit: http://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/current-exhibition
Loretta Lux at the Kulturhuset in Spring 2009
An exhibition of Loretta Lux’s work will be shown at the Kulturhuset in Sweden from February 27 to May 24, 2009. This retrospective of the artist’s ongoing body of work originated at the Fotomuseum den Haag and went on to travel to the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico. For more information about the Kulturhuset, please visit: http://www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se/default.asp?id=22519&ptid=22540&Category=Utst%C3%A4llningar
Kohei Yoshiyuki to be Exhibited at the 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Following his inclusion in the recent Berlin Biennial, the artist Kohei Yoshiyuki will be part of this year's 7th Gwangju Biennale, titled Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions. Images from the series The Park will be on view during the biennale from September 5 - November 9, 2008. For more information about the biennale, please visit: http://www.gb.or.kr/2008gb/eng/
Pieter Hugo at the Foam_Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam
As part of Pieter Hugo’s KLM Paul Huf Award 2008, the artist will receive a solo exhibition of his series The Hyena and Other Men at the Foam museum from September 5 – November 2, 2008. The work is currently on view at the Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in Arles, France. For more information about upcoming show at Foam, please visit: http://www.foam.nl/index.php?pageId=41&tentoonId=125
Sze Tsung Leong at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Works from Sze Tsung Leong’s series History Images will be on view in an exhibition titled Street Art, Street Life at the Bronx Museum of Arts from September 14, 2008 – January 25, 2009. The show offers a broad exploration of the many ways the street has been documented by artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. For further details about the exhibition, please visit: http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming.htmlLise Sarfati at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxembourg
Lise Sarfati will be featured at the Centre national de l’audioviseul in Luxembourg with a solo show of her series, La Vie Nouvelle (The New Life). Curated and produced by Magnum Photos Paris, the exhibition will be on view from June 28 – August 31, 2008. The New Life, a series of portraits of young Americans, was first shown at the gallery in 2005 as Ms. Sarfati’s U.S. debut. For more information about the CNA exhibition, please visit http://www.cna.public.lu/actualites/2008/06/exposition-lise-sarfati/index.html
David Goldes Selected for 2008 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship
With his second fellowship awarded by the McKnight Foundation, David Goldes will receive an exhibition at the Minnesota Center for Photography in 2010 that will include new work funded by the award. Mr. Goldes’ past bodies of work, shown at the gallery in 2004 and 2007, have experimented with the behavior of natural phenomenon and explored the conditions of imagination and memory. For more information about the fellowship, please visit: http://www.mcknightphoto.org/index.cfm?id=3
Pieter Hugo at the Tate Modern
Pieter Hugo’s work from the series, The Hyena and Other Men, will be included in the exhibition Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, May 22 – August 31, 2008 at the Tate Modern. By presenting a selection of photographs taken on the street or in the studio, this exhibition will explore the history of photographic portraiture from the late 1800s to the present. Artists include Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Juergen Teller and many others. For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetandstudio/
Pieter Hugo Winner of the KLM Paul Huf Award 2008
Pieter Hugo is the award recipient of the KLM Paul Huf Award 2008, an annual prize given to a young international photographer under the age of 35 who displays excellence and consistency in his or her work. Pieter Hugo will have a solo exhibition at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam from September 4 – November 7, 2008. For more information about the award, please visit http://www.foam.nl
Horizons Catalogue Published by Yossi Milo Gallery
In conjunction with the exhibition of Sze Tsung Leong's most recent body of work, entitled Horizons, Yossi Milo Gallery has published a catalogue of the same title. The catalogue includes thirty-six images of locations around the world with an essay by the artist, titled “Uncertain Distances.” The book will be available through the gallery. For more information, please visit the gallery’s publication webpage: http://www.yossimilo.com/publications/
Liu Zheng to be Exhibited at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Texas
Photographs by the artist Liu Zheng will be included in an exhibition titled “Texas Collects Asia: China” at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas. The images are part of the artist's series The Chinese, which explores a broad section of Chinese society through archetypal figures. The show will be exhibited October 18, 2008- January 4, 2009. For more information about the Crow Collection, please visit: http://www.crowcollection.org/current_exhibitions.aspx
Pieter Hugo’s Latest Book Out
Pieter Hugo’s latest book The Hyena and Other Men has been released by Prestel. The book features his series The Hyena Men of Abuja, a group of portraits made during his travels with a troupe of animal charmers in Nigeria, as well as Hugo’s own essay “The Dog’s Master. ” http://www.prestel.de/
Kohei Yoshiyuki Book Published
Hatje Cantz and Yossi Milo Gallery have published a book entitled, The Park, by Japanese photographer, Kohei Yoshiyuki. The Park is a series of photographs, taken in the 1970’s, in three Tokyo parks (Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama), where people gathered for furtive sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, and where spectators gathered in the darkness to watch and join. The 128-page book, with an essay by Vince Aletti and an interview with the artist by Nobuyoshi Araki, is available through the gallery. http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00002085
Getty Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collects Loretta Lux
We are pleased to announce that Loretta Lux’s work has entered the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. http://www.getty.edu/museum http://www.mamfw.org
Tierney Gearon Film Released by Zeitgeist Films
Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project, a film by Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland, has been released by Zeitgeist Films. http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=tierneygearon&mode=synopsis
