Born:
Trenton, New Jersey, 1934

Died:
New York, New York, 1987

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

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, New York
Night, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
Scalo Galerie, Zurich

2002
Portraits in Life and Death, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Hujar, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2000
Photographs 1980-1987, Matthew Marks Gallery

1999
Galerie Berinson, Berlin
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
Hujar, The Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
Some Sort of Grace: A Relationship, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, PPOW, 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, 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 & Study Center, New York University
Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Peter Hujar Fotografien, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich

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, Basel
Peter Hujar: Foto’s 1974-81, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
Forum Stadtparkm Graz, Steirmark
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, New York
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, New York

1975
Portfolio by Peter Hujar, Foto Gallery, New York

1974
Floating Foundation of Photography, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

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 Flackenberg Hamburg
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich

2007
Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
death & love in MODERN TIMES, Dinter Fine Art, New York
Lisette Model & 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, Vermont
Americans, Kunsthalle Wien (catalogue)
The Photographer’s Contract, Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Travels to Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern. Travels 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 (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, New York. Travels to KunstWerke, 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, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2005
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Travels to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and Austin Museum of Art, Texas (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
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston

2004
East Village USA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Artists' Favorites, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London
Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Gallerie 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, New York
The 60s Global Village, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (catalogue)
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, Team Gallery, New York

2002
Portraits/Photography, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
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,(organized by Robert Nickas), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, exhibiting at various locations in New York City

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 (Burden Gallery), New York
150 Jahre 1839-1889, Basler Kunstverein, Basel

1988
Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Les Splendeurs et Miseres du Corps, Mois de la Photo a Paris, Paris
Vollbild, 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, New York

1985
Nude Stripped Bare, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

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

1980
Presences- The Figure and Manmade Environments, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
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, Austria
Peter Hujar, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; 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, Connecticut
Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

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