Pugen explores relationships between real and staged performance, the natural and the artificial, and tensions of virtual identity, through altering and manipulating images. Working with video, film, performance and photography, Pugen renders situations that examine our perceptions of how history, documentation, and simulation intersect. His videos and art have been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the K.M Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary art.
- Jera MacPherson, “States of Collapse,” Galleries West, February 22, 2021.
- Marilyn Adlington, “Geoffrey Pugen, Weather Room,” Public #61, Winter 2021.
- Tyler Muzzin, “The Apocalypse is Selective, Not Total: Geoffrey Pugen’s Disanthropic Moment,” MOMUS, February 4, 2020.
- Barry N. Neuman, “Looking Back At Neuspiel & Pugen’s 2011 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon Tie-break Performance,” White Hot Magazine, July 2018.
- Sam Cotter, “White Condo,” Canadian Art, Winter 2016.
- Terence Dick, “Geoffrey Pugen at MKG127, Toronto,” Akimbo, July 28, 2015.
- Murray Whyte, “The Tie Break: Nuit Blanche spectacle comes in from the cold,” Toronto Star, January 14, 2012.
- Gabrielle Moser, “Alex Kisilevich & Geoffrey Pugen,” Esse #73, Fall 2011.
- R.M. Vaughan, “Geoffrey Pugen’s vigilante women,” The Globe and Mail, March 26, 2011.
- Jen Hutton, “Geoffrey Pugen,” Artforum, February 2011.