Artist | Peter Hujar (1934 - 1987)

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Jul 19, 2014 06:30 pm Aug 24, 2014 London Maureen Paley PETER HUJAR
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Self-Portrait Smoking, 1958, vintage gelatin silver print, © 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, (MP-HUJAP-00053)

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Maureen Paley

PETER HUJAR

Opening Jul 19, 2014 at 06:30 pm
Start date Jul 19, 2014
End date Aug 24, 2014

Maureen Paley is pleased to present the third solo exhibition by Peter Hujar at the gallery. In her introduction to Portraits in Life and Death, Susan Sontag wrote, ‘…Fleshed and moist-eyed friends and acquaintances stand, sit, slouch, mostly lie – and are made to appear to meditate on their own mortality…Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death.’ Working exclusively in black and white, Hujar vividly documented a New York that has been all but lost to us today. Hujar was a contemporary and friend of Diane Arbus, and both were admirers of Weegee and shared his dark vision. Regardless of subject matter—from the catacombs in Palermo to abandoned, wrecked cars Hujar is a classicist whose distinctive style echoes further back to historical figures such as Atget and Brassaï. Hujar was a mentor and friend to the artists David Wojnarowicz and Paul Thek. His work would go on to influence the photographers Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe. His sensibility, concentration, eye for detail, and feel for light and texture enable him to find mystery where none is apparent, beauty in the mundane, and grace in disintegration. All of Hujar's work is imbued with a deep sense of mortality and as he makes visible an awareness of life and death as forever enmeshed, a depth of soul. Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1934, Peter Hujar received his first camera in 1947. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.

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Exhibitions in artist-info 51 (S 15/ G 36) Did show together with - Top 5 of 986 artists
(no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
Andy Warhol (14)- 950
Robert Mapplethorpe (13)- 216
David Wojnarowicz [David Woynarowicz] (11)- 68
Nan Goldin (9)- 178
Diane Arbus [Diane Nemerov Arbus] (8)- 126
Exhibitions by type
51:   23 / 20 / 8 / 0
Venues by type
40:   17 / 15 / 8 / 0
Curators 39
artist-info records Jan 1982 - Feb 2024
Countries - Top 5 of 6
United States (26)
Germany (10)
Switzerland (6)
United Kingdom (5)
France (1)
Cities - Top 5 of 21
New York (18)
London (5)
Winterthur (3)
Boston (3)
Berlin (2)
Venues (no. of shows ) Top 5 of 40
Maureen Paley (4)
Pace MacGill (3)
Whitney Museum of American Art (3)
Fotomuseum Winterthur (3)
Howard Yezerski Gallery (2)
Curators (no. of shows) Top 5 of 39
Nayland Blake(2), Lawrence R. Rinder(2), Eric Karsenty(1), Jennifer Blessing(1), Simon Edwards(1)
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Kunsthalle Nürnberg G Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 Nürnberg (142) +0
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that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness a model

Kestner-Gesellschaft G Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 Hannover (576) +0
Wilmschen, Alexander (Curator)       +0
Budak, Adam (Curator)       +0
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Peter Hujar

 - Backstage
Maureen Paley S May 2021 - Jun 2021 London (257) +0
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Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986

Whitney Museum of American Art G Sep 2020 - Nov 2020 New York (365) +0
Phipps, Laura (Curator)       +0
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The Blazing World

S|2 Gallery - Sotheby's G Nov 2019 - Jan 2020 London (7) +0
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The Thrill of the Chase

 - The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art G Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 Hartford (65) +0
Martineau, Paul (Curator)       +0