The Peter Hujar Foundation announces a major exhibition of Peter Hujar’s complete works from the series Portraits in Life and Death, during the 60th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, 2024. Curated by Grace Deveney, the Art Institute of Chicago, Portraits in Life and Death is an official Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia.
Hujar is renowned for photographing his subjects with penetrating sensitivity and psychological depth. Deeply embedded within the avant-garde milieu of artists, musicians, writers, and performers in downtown New York during the 1970s and early ‘80s, Hujar’s unflinching portraits captured his subjects with astonishing intimacy and vulnerability.
Peter Hujar, Self-Portrait Lying Down, 1975 © The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC, Courtesy of Pace Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, and Maureen Paley, London