PETER HUJAR
Born: Trenton, N.J., 1934
Died: New York, N.Y., 1987
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2009
Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956-1958, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2008
Peter Hujar: Second Avenue, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Hujar, Maureen Paley, London
2007
Peter Hujar, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2005
Peter Hujar, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
Night, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
Scalo Galerie, Zürich
2002
Portraits in Life and Death, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Hujar, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2000
Photographs 1980–1987, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1999
Galerie Berinson, Berlin
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
Hujar, The Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
Some Sort of Grace: A Relationship, PPOW (with David Wojnarowicz), New York
1998
Seminal Works, James Danziger Gallery, New York
1996
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Peter Hujar: Das Photographische Werk, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
1994
Peter Hujar: A Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Traveled to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (catalogue)
1992
Peter Hujar: Portraits of Animals, James Danziger Gallery, New York
1991
Peter Hujar's New York, James Danziger Gallery, New York
1990
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University
Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Peter Hujar Fotografien, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zürich
1988
The Photographs of Peter Hujar, State University College of New York at Buffalo
1986
Recent Photographs, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1982
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
Galerie Nagel, Berlin
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Kunsthalle Basel
Peter Hujar: Fotos 1974–81, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Galerie Modern Art, Vienna
1981
Recent Photographs, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
1980
La Remise du Parc, Paris
1979
Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, N.Y.
Recent Photographs, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
1978
Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
1977
New York Portraits, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y.
1975
Portfolio by Peter Hujar, Foto Gallery, New York
1974
Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Off The Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"I am a cliché", echoes of the punk aesthetic, Les Recontres D'Arles 2010, Grande Halle, Arles, France
2009
DARKSIDE II - Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
WE ARE THE WORLD: Figures & Portraits, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, N.Y.
2008
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
Male: work from the collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
death & love in MODERN TIMES, Dinter Fine Art, New York
Lisette Model and Her Successors, Aperture Gallery, New York
People Take Pictures of Each Other, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972–1996, The New York Public Library
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2006
Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999–2005, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vt.
Americans, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
The Photographer's Contract, Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Traveled to Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Traveled to the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (catalogue)
Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Subterranean Monuments: Burkhardt, Johnson, Hujar, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (catalogue)
The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y. Traveled to Kunst-Werke, Berlin, and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome (catalogue)
New York, New York: 50 Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music, and Video, Grimaldi Forum Monaco (catalogue)
On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2005
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Traveled to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and Austin Museum of Art (catalogue)
Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
The History of Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2004
East Village USA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Artists' Favorites, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2003
Histories of Photography, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The 60s Global Village, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (catalogue)
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in Their Hair (But Now They're Content to Spray Stars from Your Boughs), Team Gallery, New York
2002
Portraits/Photography, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Fotografische Erwerbungen seit 1995—Gefördert durch die Stiftung Presse-Haus NRZ, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, New York
2001
What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996
Commonplace Mysteries: Photographs by Peter Hujar, Andrea Modica, and Bill Owens, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1994
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1989
Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artist's Space, New York
Self and Shadow, Aperture Foundation, New York
150 Jahre 1839–1889, Basler Kunstverein, Basel
1988
Les splendeurs et misères du corps, Mois de la Photo à Paris, Paris
Vollbild AIDS: Eine Kunst-Ausstellung über Leben und Sterben, Die Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Künste, Berlin
1987
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo. Traveled to Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
1985
Nude Stripped Bare, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1982
Faces Photographed: Contemporary Camera Images, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University
1981
New American Nudes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Creative Photography Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass.
1980
Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Penn.
Portraits, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1979
The Male Image, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
Photographs, National Arts Club, New York
Fotografie als Kunst/Kunst als Fotografie, Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck, Austria
Peter Hujar, Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck, Austria. Traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna
1978
The Male Nude, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York
1977
New York: The City and Its People, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Conn.
Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Md.
1976
Celebration of Life Below 14th Street, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
1975
Coming of Age in America, Midtown Y Gallery, New York
Group Show, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York
1974
New Acquisitions, Floating Foundation of Photography, New York