Artist Monograph

Pierre Huyghe, French

French, born 1962

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	5	55.6%
Video	2	22.2%
Drawing	1	11.1%
Lithography	1	11.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	5	55.6%
Painting & Sculpture	2	22.2%
Media and Performance	2	22.2%

Production by Decade

2

1990s

3

2000s

3

2010s

1

2020s

Classification Types

Multiple — 2
Sculpture — 2
Video — 2
Drawing — 1
Print — 1
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	33.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	1	16.7%
Large (1–3 m)	3	50%

Range: 23.3 cm → 175.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
2003	1
2005	1
2011	1
2015	2
2016	3
2023	1

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 2, 212" — 1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 9 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Anna Sanders: L'Histoire d'un sentiment Illustrated Book Acc. 1286.2016	1997	Magazine, offset lithograph printed	overall (closed): 10 7/8 × 8 1/4 × 1/8" (27.7 × 21 × 0.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
Silence Score (English Version) Print Acc. 592.2016.a-d	1997	Set of four digital prints with colored pencil additions	Each: 16 1/2 × 11 5/8" (41.9 × 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
All But One (for Parkett no. 66) Multiple Acc. 345.2003	2002	Multiple of a wind chime	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Howard B. Johnson Fund
I JEDI from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image Video Acc. 3510.2005.2	2003	Video (color, sound)	5 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of The New Art Trust
Life Drawing Acc. 593.2016	2009–13	Black pigments and chalk on sheetrock	47 × 65 1/2 × 1/2" (119.4 × 166.4 × 1.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of the Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and the Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund
The Host and the Cloud (Mask) Multiple Acc. 282.2011	2010	Multiple of LED and aluminum	overall (mask): 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 x 4 3/4" (23.3 x 17.5 x 12 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	General Print Fund
A Way in Untilled Video Acc. 1773.2015	2012–2013	Video (color, sound)	13:59 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	The Michael H. Dunn Memorial Fund
Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) Sculpture Acc. 238.2015.a-c	2012	Concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony	Figure 29 1/2 x 57 1/16 x 17 11/16" (75 x 145 x 45 cm), base 11 13/16 x 57 1/16 x 21 5/8" (30 x 145 x 55 cm), beehive dimensions variable ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 220.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds
Mind’s Eye (L) Sculpture Acc. 172.2023	2021	Materialized deep image reconstruction, aggregate of synthetic and biological material, micro-organisms, generative adversarial network	39 3/8 × 68 7/8 × 32 5/16" (100 × 175 × 82 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Harry Torczyner (by exchange)