Biography
Pierre Huyghe was born in Paris in 1962 and trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. In 2001, Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennale, where his pavilion, entitled Le Château de Turing, won a special prize from the international jury. In 2002, Huyghe won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum and exhibited several works there the following year. In 2004 he participated in "A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water" the 5th Gwangju Biennale.
In 2006, Huyghe's film A Journey That Wasn't was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York, and at the re-opening of ARC/MAM and Tate Modern. In 2008, Pierre Huyghe became a professor of art and philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Pierre Huyghe is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in both New York and Paris.
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