I am an artist and writer living in London. I write fictions that reorder and critique the potentially violent mechanisms within popular/canonical narratives. I also write about art, especially those forms of art-making that feel analogous to the making of a text – notably the adapted readymade. In my visual practice I make drawings, sculptures, and performances. I am currently writing a novel.
Instagram: @hugohagger
email: hugo@studiohagger.co.uk
AWARDS
- 2024; Winner of RCA MA Writing Prize
- 2029: Winner of Goldsmiths Hamad Butt Award
SHORTLISTS
- Bookworks, Satirical Strains
EDUCATION
- 2023 - 2024
RCA - MA in Writing
2017-2019
Goldsmiths University - BA(Hons) Fine Art - 2016-2017
Central Saint Martins (UAL) – Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Specialism in fine art practice
PUBLICATIONS & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025: Tissue Fundraiser, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
- 2025: ‘HAYSTACK’ Duo performance with Evelyn Wh-ell, Horse Hospital
- 2024: ‘Double Entry’, Duo Performance with Evelyn Wh-ell, Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office
- 2024: Untitled (Iron Church Bell Taxidermy owl), Sticky Fingers, Get Rid of Meaning
- 2023: Bye Bye Cowboy, Arusha Gallery, London
- 2023: Hemispheres, Alice Black Gallery
- 2023: Bye To Your Corpse, Pilot Press, Responses to Untitled (Eye with Comet by Paul Thek)
- 2023: Death Dissensus, Deleuzine, Vol 2 She dogs
- 2022: Centrifugal Horse, Today is a Beautiful Day Presents Deep Meaningful Conversation, (Co-curator, Producer and Exhibiting artist/ writer)
- 2021: Cadmium Red, Tactical Before, Sticky Fingers, Nocturnal 2021: The Future Toddlers of My Friends Clamber Over Me
and Affectionately Sprinkle Grass Onto My Shoulders, Coven Magazine, Berlin, Year Of The Bog - 2021: Love Compound, Oofle Dust, George Mackay and Freya Mavors presentation of new writing.
- 2021: Goldsmiths Degree Show
- 2019: Group Show 1. The Flying Dutchman
Press:
Interview with RCA -- Placing Narrative Under the Microscope
The Wire Magazine -- ‘On Site’