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Pierre Huyghe
Born in 1962 in Paris, where he currently lives and works. The artist
graduated form the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in
1985. In 2000 he was a DAAD Artist in Residence in Berlin. Huyghe's videos
and installations, which often use film as a departure for investigating a
contemporary society saturated with representation, have been presented in
numerous solo exhibitions including shows at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris (1998); Aarhus Kunstmueum, Denmark (1999); the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000); the Renaissance Society, University of
Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée d'Art Contemporain de
Montréal (2000-2001); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2001);
and the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2001). His work has been
represented in notable group exhibitions such as the second Johannesburg
Biennial (1997); Premises, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (1998-1999); the
Instanbul Biennial (1999); the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1999);
the Venice Biennale (1999); Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth
Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and Haus
der Kunst, Munich (1999-2000); and Animations, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art
Center, Long Island City, New York (2001). Huyghe represented France at the
2001 Venice Biennale. Recently Hughye won the most prestigious biannual
international artworld award, Hugo Boos at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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