Scott Hug is an interdisciplinary artist working in New York. He is the founder of K48; an artist’s fanzine (2000-2010). His past work investigated politics, pop culture and media obsession. Currently he is working in social documentary photography and a forthcoming feature length film—The World is a Poem, about the physicist turned poet, Bern Porter—investigating themes of consumption, waste, and the Atomic Age. In New York, Hug’s work has been featured at John Connelly Presents, Deitch Projects, White Box, D’Amelio Terras, Feature Inc., and Greene Naftali; gallerie du jour agnes b. in Paris; and Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Tokyo. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times and has appeared in the New Art Examiner and Zingmagazine. In 2004, he was awarded a Rema Hort Mann grant.
A notable show was Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter at MoMA PS1 in New York City, NY in 2009
Other notable shows were at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier in Vienna and White box in New York City.