PIERRE HUYGHE NYMPHÉAS TRANSPLANT (14 – 18) | Page 3

Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris. He studied at the
École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The
artist lives and works in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Huyghe was a recipient of a DAAD Artist in Residence
grant in Berlin (1999 – 2000). He received a Special Award
from the Jury of the Venice Biennale in 2001, where he
represented France. In 2002 he was awarded the Hugo
Boss Award at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York. In 2010 Huyghe received the Smithsonian
Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award, in 2013 the
Swiss Roswitha-Haftmann Award, and in 2015 the KurtSchwitters Award.
In 2012 Pierre Huyghe’s garden work Untilled with its
pink-legged dog named Human was perhaps the most
critically acclaimed and most frequently photographed
contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.
Huyghe’s practice spans many media, including installation,
sculpture, film, performance, drawing, and exhibitionmaking. His films probe the capacity of cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory. Using the
exhibition as a multi-faceted medium, Huyghe assembles his own works in new and nonhierarchical
ways, creating for the observer fantastic and evocative experiences that can appear dreamlike and blur
the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Huyghe has had numerous solo exhibitions, among them: Orphan Patterns, Sprengel Museum
Hannover (until April 24, 2016); Pierre Huyghe: Tarrawarra International 2015, Tarrawarra Museum of
Art, Healesville, Australia (2015); The Roof Garden Commission, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York (2015); Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled (liegender Frauenakt), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015);
Pierre Huyghe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2014), Pierre Huyghe, Museum Ludwig,
Cologne (2014); Pierre Huyghe, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013); El Dia del Ojo, Museo Tamayo Arte
Contemporáneo, México D.F. (2012); Pierre Huyghe. La saison des fêtes, Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal (2010); Celebration Park, Tate Modern, London and ARC, Musée
d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (both 2006); This is not a Time for Dreaming, Carpenter Center, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004); One Million + Kingdoms, Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth, Texas (2004); Streamside Day Follies, Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2003); The Hugo Boss
Prize 2002 Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003); L’expédition scintillante.
A musical, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2002), and The Third Memory, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2000).
His work is represented in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; SFMOMA, San
Francisco; Tate Modern, London, among other institutions worldwide.
Huyghe’s current solo exhibition Orphan Patterns at one of Germany’s most important museums, the
Sprengel Museum in Hannover, continues through April 24, 2016.

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