Hugo WIlson

Baba Vanga

Year 2024
Medium Graphite and white chalk on paper
Dimensions 27.9 x 21.5 cm
Nominated by Bianca Roden

About the work

A continued look into the desire for ideology , this is a portrait iconifying Baba Vanga , an alleged soothsayer , active in Eastern Europe in 1970’s and 80’s

Date and country of birth

1982, GB

Career Highlights

His work has been exhibited at the The National Museum, Stockholm, Busan Metropoli­tan Art Museum, the National Por­trait Gallery, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Wilson is collected by the New York Pub­lic Library, the Deutsche Bank Col­lec­tion, Kistefos Museum, Bellinger Collection and many others.

Recent exhibitions include:

SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2023);

Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, Nicodim, New York (2023);

Carnal Agreement, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo);

Iconic Works, The National Museum, Stockholm;

Dialogues / New Paintings from London, GASK, Kutná Hora Museum, Czech Republic;

Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London (2018).