Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno, "No Ghost Just a Shell," 2000. Three-color silk screened poster, 120 cm. x 176 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Pierre Huyghe, "One Million Kingdoms," 2001. Animated film, Approx. 6 minutes, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Artist Bio—

Pierre Huyghe was born in Paris in 1962. Huyghe’s works often present themselves as complex systems characterized by a wide range of life forms, inanimate things and technologies. His constructed organisms not only combine biological, technological, and fictional elements, they also produce an immersive, constantly changing environment, in which humans, animals and non-beings learn, evolve and grow.

Recent solo exhibitions include “UUmwelt” at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2018); “After ALife Ahead” at Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany (2017); “The Roof Garden” Commission at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (2015), among others. In 2012–2014, a major retrospective of Huyghe’s work travelled from the Centre Pompidou, Paris; to the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; and to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA.