SCOTT HUG
Born in Jefferson City, MO
Lives and works in Astoria, NY

Education

2000 Pratt Institute, New York, NY, MA, Graphic Design
1991 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2005 Wookie’s Need Love Too, in collaboration with Michael Magnan, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Boys Gone Wild, in collaboration with Michael Magnan, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Tempest, curated by John Connelly, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Six Degrees of Separation: The innerworkings of the cold contact, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
Art for Relief, Metropolitan Gallery, New York, NY
Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s Amanda Lear, Envoy, New York, NY Group Show, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

2005 With us against reality, or against us, curated by Ida Ekblad & Anders Nordby, S.E., Norway  
Picture Window, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore City, MD, USA

2004 The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, curated by Ed Bucholtz, The Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, curated by Philip Guichard, produced by John Connelly Presents
for Deitch Projects Brooklyn, NY
Democracy is Fun?, curated by Michelle Thursz and Defne Ayas, White Box, NY
Collage Party, curated by Simon Watson, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NYMajority Whip, curated by Kathy Grayson and Laura Tepper, White Box, New York, NY
The Collector’s Cabinet, curated by Simon Watson, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2003 The Outlaw Series, curated by Lisa Kirk, New York, NY
You, curated by Lisa Kirk, New York, NY
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Invitation No. 75: Fashion, Art, Design, Bureau Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Magazin, Marres/Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands 

2000 Guide to Trust No. 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Franscico, CA

1999 2 Ways In, Henry Urbach Architecture, NY NY; 2 person exhibition with Claude Parent, New York, NY
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL
List 99 The Young Art Fair in Basel, Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL,
BMW: black met white,”ANP, Antwerp, Belgium

1998 Three Person Exhibition (with Richard Hawkins and Jeff Ono), Feature, New York, NY
Odyseey, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Drawers, Feature, New York, NY
f.i.s.t., ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
Vienna Beef, organized by the Chicago Project, Room Bricks & Kicks, Vienna, Austria
WOp: works on/off paper, Anp, Antwerp, Belgium
Four person exhibition (with Alix Lambert, Lori Daniels, and Megan Cump), Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL

1997 More, curated by Tony Payne, XL Gallery, New York, NY
New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Gasworks, London, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

1996 Taking Stock, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY
Feature, New York, NY

1991 Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

Projects

2005 Curated The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves, and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena, Los
Angeles, CA
Curated Is There Anybody Out There, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
K48 Sundown Salon, Fritz Haeg residence, Los Angeles, CA

2004 K48, issue 5: K48 is and Animal

2003 ATTACK! The Kult 48 Klubhouse, curated by Scott Hug at Deitch Projects Brooklyn, NY
K48-3 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug at Galerie du Jour: Agnes b., Paris, France
K48, issue 4: Kult 48
K48-3 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug at John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
K48, issue 3: Teenage Rebel

2001 K48, issue 2

2000 K48, issue 1

1999 Curatorial for Zingmagazine by ANP, Autume, page 165 (reproduction).

1998-97 Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY (flatfiles).

Bibliography

2006 “6 + 4”, Kapok Blog, May 10, 2006  
 “It’s all in the Blend”, Blend, issue 13, June 2006
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2004 Trebay, Guy, “Artists Stage a Be-In at Bergdorf’s,” New York Times, October 26, 2004, p. B9.
Mogutin, Slava. “New York Attack.” Tetu n. 88, p. 114-125
Cotter, Holland, “Scott Hug and Michael Magnan”, New York Times, July 29, p. E34
Cotter, Holland, “Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames,” New York Times, January 23, 2004, p. E27, 29

2003 Cotter, Holland, “The Art and Artist of the Year,” New York Times, December 28, 2003 p. E37
Mar, Alex, “The New Dealers”, New York, December 1, 2003, p. 44 - 45
Cotter, Holland, “Jack Smith,” New York Times, December 5, 2003 p. E47
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2002 Cotter, Holland, “A Document Made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein”, New York Times, December 20, p. E44
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“The 25 Most Likely To...”, Next Magazine, October 2002
“Hug’s Drug”, Flyer, March 2002, issue 46 , p. 14

1999 Ivy, Angus, “WOp: ANP,” Zingmagazine, Spring/Summer 1999, p. 229–230

1998 Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” New York Times, June 26, 1999, p. E38
Erickson, Karl, “I am Here. I am Glad You are There,” New Art Examiner, December
1998/January 1999, p. 19–23
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review.” New York Times, January 23, 1998, p. E35
“Goings on About Town”, The New Yorker, July 27, 1998, p. 14