Hugo Wilson
Installation View
Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018
Hugo Wilson
Pact, 2017–2018
Installation View
Frieze Sculpture, London, 2018
Hugo Wilson: Rape of Europa
Installation View
Parafin, London, 2016
Hugo Wilson: Ideal Hauntology
Installation View
Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012
Hugo Wilson
Septagon, 2018
oil on aluminum with etched zinc on reverse
Hugo Wilson
Zebra Hell, 2018
oil on panel
74.8 x 64.2 in
190 x 163 cm
Hugo Wilson
Untitled, 2018
bronze
30 x 23 x 27.5 in
76 x 58 x 70 cm
Hugo Wilson
Bulls, 2018
bronze
35.5 x 26.5 x 26.5 in
90 x 67 x 67 cm
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Hugo Wilson (b. 1982) lives and works in London. His artworks have been exhibited in group shows at the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and are also included in key international collections, such as that of the New York Public Library, the Deutsche Bank Collection in the United Kingdom, and the Janet de Botton Collection in London.
London-based artist Hugo Wilson works with drawing, painting and sculpture, combining images and techniques from Old Masters with contemporary references to create dynamic, layered artworks. LUX contributing editor Maryam Eisler visits his studio to photograph him and discuss refining his practice, creativity in lockdown and finding artistic freedom.
In the latest instalment of the ACS 'Artist Spotlight' series, they talk to multidisciplinary London-based artist Hugo Wilson about his practice. Wilson works across a range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, exploring issues of faith and belief and the associated structures of power. The artist's interests are wide-ranging, encompassing science, religion and culture, systems of classification, history and memory.
Artnet News interviews the London-based artist to explore his enduring interest in animals, his special relationship with painting—despite embracing other media like charcoal drawing and sculpture—and what lies ahead of him.
Hugo Wilson’s sumptuous oil paintings and delicate drawings, rendered in a dramatic-realist style reminiscent of Dutch masters, depict endearingly quirky subjects—a proboscis monkey elegantly perched in a wooden frame; a collection of claws, feathers, creatures, and a highly detailed human heart—that charm and seduce viewers into the more implicit topic of his work: the amorphous space in which meaning is made.
