Peter HUJAR
ピーター・ヒュージャー
Peter Hujar (born 1934) died of AIDS in 1987, leaving behind a complex and profound body of photographs. Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at the forefront of the cultural scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and early 80s, and he was enormously admired for his completely uncompromising attitude towards work and life. He was a consummate technician, and his portraits of people, animals, and landscapes, with their exquisite black-and-white tonalities, were extremely influential. Highly emotional yet stripped of excess, Hujar’s photographs are always beautiful, although rarely in a conventional way. His extraordinary first book, Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, was published in 1976, but his “difficult” personality and refusal to pander to the marketplace insured that it was one of the last publications during his lifetime.
Publications
1994 - Peter Hujar: A Retrospective, edited by Urs Stahel and Hripsimé Visser; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Fotomuseum Winterthur (Scalo,)
2002 - Peter Hujar: Animals and Nudes, Klaus Kertess (Twin Palms Publishers)
2005 - Peter Hujar: Night (Matthew Marks Gallery / Fraenkel Gallery)
2012 - Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr (Bloomsbury)
2012 - Changing Difference: Queer Politics and Shifting Identities, edited by Lorenzo Fusi: Peter Hujar, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Smith (Silvana Editoriale)
2014 - Peter Hujar: Love & Lust (Fraenkel Gallery)
2017 - Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, Morgan Library & Museum; Fundacion MAPFRE (Aperture)
2021 - Peter Hujar’s Day, Linda Rosenkrantz (Magic Hour Press)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1975 - Portfolio by Peter Hujar, Foto Gallery, New York (alongside Christopher Makos: Pictures from a Suitcase)
1977 - Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
1978 - Peter Hujar: Photographs, Port Washington Public Library, New York
1979 - Peter Hujar: Recent Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
1980 - La Remise du Parc, Paris, Franc
1980 -
Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck
Museum Moderner Kunst Wien
1981 - Peter Hujar: Recent Photographs, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
1982 -
Larry Clark / Peter Hujar, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (catalogue), expanded to
Peter Hujar / Larry Clark / Robert Mapplethorpe, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1982 - Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1982 - Galerie Nagel, Berlin, Germany
1983 - Forum Stadtpark, Graz, and Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1986 - Peter Hujar: Recent Photographs, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Collections
Morgan Library & Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Carnegie Museum of Art, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Folkwang Museum Essen, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, UK
