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Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark

Raven Row

Date:
January 30, 2025–April 6, 2025
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Price: Free
Type of event:
Member ExArtist Member Exhibition
Location:
Raven Row
56 Artillery Ln
London, Greater London , E1 7LS
United Kingdom
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Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, 1979

Opening: Wednesday 29 January, 6.30–8.30pm

You are warmly invited to the opening of Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark at Raven Row.

This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his work was largely unknown to a broader art world. Now it is widely admired for its austere elegance and emotional charge.

Hujar’s principal concern was with forms of portraiture – of his friends and denizens of the downtown scene, whom he encountered on the street, shot in his apartment studio or sought out backstage. He also turned his attention to animals, whom he photographed with particular empathy, as well as to architectural, landscape and street photography. Eyes Open in the Dark concentrates on his later work, when his emergence from a debilitating depression in 1976 brought about a new expansiveness. The exhibition also reveals the darkening tone of his photography in the early 1980s, as the AIDS crisis devastated his community, and his work entered into dialogue with the younger artist David Wojnarowicz.

Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark is curated by Hujar’s biographer John Douglas Millar, and Hujar’s close friend, the artist and master printer Gary Schneider, with Raven Row’s director Alex Sainsbury. As well as lifetime prints it will include prints of little-known works specially prepared by Gary Schneider, working closely with the artist’s Estate.

© 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, DACS London and Pace Gallery


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