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Pierre Huyghe

Biography

Born

Paris, France, 1962

Education

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, 1982 – 1985

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

LEEUM Samsung Museum, 'Pierre Huyghe. Liminal', Seoul, South Korea 

2024

Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, 'Pierre Huyghe. Liminal', Venice, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

MAM Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 'The Atomic age. Artists put to the test of history', Paris, France

Fondation Beyeler, 'Echoes Unbound', Riehen, Switzerland  

2023

C-PARK Haisu / IAG Immersive Art Gallery, 'Crossing the River by Feeling the Collectors', Shanghai, China 

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'YOU ARE HERE*. Contemporary Art in the Garden', New York NY

Museo Tamayo, 'The Paradoxes of Internationalism (As Narrated by the Tamayo Collection, part 1 and part 2)', Mexico City, Mexico

The Warehouse, 'Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting', Dallas TX

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, 'Avant l’Orage', Paris, France

Events

2009

Musée national des arts et traditions populaires, ‘The Host and The Cloud’, Paris, France

2003

Streamside Knolls, ‘Streamside Day’, Fishkill NY

Artistic Director

2019

Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan

Awards

2024

Grand Prix Artistique, Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, Paris, France

2017

Nasher Prize, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas TX

Bibliography

Publications

2023

Lavigne, Emma, 'Avant L’Orage', Paris: Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection & Editions Dilecta, 2023, pp. 12, 59-71, ill. (exh. cat.) 

2022

Hélène Meisel, Déborah Laks, Arnaud Dejeammes (et al.), 'L’art d'apprendre', Metz: Editions Centre Pompidou Metz, 2022, p. 51, ill.

Selected Press

2024

Richman, Jordan, 'Pierre Huyghe “Liminal” Punta della Dogana / Venice', on: flash---art.com, 29 July 2024, ill.

Gawlik, Goschka, 'Pierre Huyghe - Liminal: Zustandsverschiebungen', on: artmagazine.cc, 1 August 2024, ill.

Carollo, Elisa, 'Pierre Huyghe’s Show in Venice Presages Inhuman Perspectives' [review], on: observer.com, 26 July 2024, ill.

Freund, Madeleine, 'Abseits der Biennale. Pierre Huyghe. Punta della Dogana', in: Parnass, Vienna, no. 02/2024, Summer 2024, ill. 

Burns, Sean, 'Pierre Huyghe. Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy', in: Frieze, London, no. 244, June/July/August 2024, pp. 142-143, ill. 

Schwerfel, Heinz Peter, 'Durchs Dunkle zu den Sternen', in: ARTspezial. 60. Biennale Venedig. Special issue of the magazine 'ART. Das Kunstmagazin', Hamburg, June 2024, ill.

Kielmayer, Oliver, 'Pierre Huyghe. Bewusstseinerweiterungen', in: Kunst Bulletin, Zurich, June 2024, pp. 109-110, ill.

Lauf, Cornelia, 'Edge of Glory. Pierre Huyghe's "Liminal"', on: artforum.com, 5 June 2024, ill.

Lavrador, Judicaël, 'Pierre Huyghe à la Biennale de Venise: humain, trope humain', on: liberation.fr, 7 May 2024, ill.

Roome, Kristine, 'Pierre Huyghe: "Liminal" at Punta della Dogana (17.03.24 — 24.11.24)', on: artefuse.com, 8 May 2024, ill.

Luquet-Gad, Ingrid, 'À Venise, Pierre Huyghe crée l'évènement avec une exposition bouleversante', on: numero.com, 4 May 2024, ill. 

Abrams, Amah-Rose, 'Alternate worlds and end of days: Pierre Huyghe in Venice', on: wallpaper.com, May 2024, ill.

___, 'Pierre Huyghe Wins Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca's Grand Prix', on: artforum.com, 1 May 2024, ill.

Burns, Sean, 'Inside the Dark Vision of Pierre Huyghe', on: frieze.com, 25 April 2024, ill.

Villa, Alberto, 'Fantasmagorie dell’alterità. Una grande mostra di Pierre Huyghe a Venezia', on: artribune.com, 14 April 2024, ill.

Heartney, Eleanor, 'Pierre Huyghe Takes on AI and Nonhuman Evolution in Venice', on: artnews.com/art-in-america, 15 April 2024, ill.

Ono-dit-Biot, Christophe, 'À Venise, l’artiste Pierre Huyghe écrit les légendes du futur', on: lepoint.fr, 14 April 2024, ill. 

Giraud, Fabien, Siboni, Raphaël, 'POSSIBILIA. On Pierre Huyghe and the History of the Future', in: Ursula, New York, no. 10, April 2024, pp. 64-79, cover, ill. 

Tait, Amelia, 'Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art?', on: theguardian.com, 8 April 2024, ill.  

2022

Barikin, Amelia, 'Pierre Huyghe: Variants', on: curamagazine.com, November 2022, ill.

Blom, Ina, 'On Site Possibility of an Island. Ina Blom on Pierre Huyghe’s Variants', in: Artforum, New York, vol. 61, no. 3, November 2022, ill.

Luke, Ben, 'A brush with… Pierre Huyghe', in: The Art Newspaper, London, vol. XXXI, no. 348, September 2022, p. 46

Luke, Ben, 'A brush with… Pierre Huyghe' [Artist interview Podcast], on: theartnewspaper.com, 17 August 2022, ill.

Sans, Jérôme, Zahm, Olivier, 'Pierre Huyghe' [interview; The Future Issue #37 S/S 2022], on: purple.fr, April 2022, ill.

Publications by the artist

2006

Huyghe, Pierre, 'One Year Celebration, a Poster Project by Pierre Huyghe', Paris: Onestar Press, 2006

2003

Huyghe, Pierre, Parreno, Philippe (eds.), 'No Ghost Just a Shell', Cologne / New York: Walther König / Distributed Art Publishers, 2003 (exh cat.)

Writings by the artist

2005

Huyghe, Pierre, 'Pierre Huyghe, Marian Goodman Gallery', in: Frog, Paris FR, no. 1, Spring / Summer 2005, pp. 39-40

Huyghe, Pierre, 'Pierre Huyghe, Biennale of Lyon', in: Frog, Paris FR, no. 2, Autumn / Winter 2005, pp. 101-103

Huyghe, Pierre, Grassi, Francesca, 'El Diario del Fin del Mundo: A Journey That Was Not', in: Artforum, New York NY, Summer 2005

2004

Huyghe, Pierre, 'Garden Party', in: Artforum, New York NY, no. 43, October 2004, pps. 144-145, 286