About

Hugo Petersons (b. 2003) is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Riga, Latvia, working across 3D art, oil painting, installation, and much more. Currently in his final year of the Bachelor’s in Environmental Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia, he explores how novelty, originality, and material interplay can create new visual and experiential possibilities.

His creative endeavours began in childhood, when he filled school notebooks with drawings and attended extracurricular art classes in drawing and painting. After exploring other pursuits in his teenage years, he rediscovered his passion for creating while in high school, teaching himself oil painting and experimenting with 3D art, which quickly developed into a serious practice, leading him to academic preparation courses and, soon after, studies at the Academy.

Today, his work resists a single overarching theme, often arising instead from the encounter between medium, context, and experiment. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions with his paintings – “Transformation” in 2022, “Symbiosis 2.0” and 'Shifts' in 2025. Some of his notable works include a light installation “Rhythm of the Intermediate State” for “Staro Rīga” light festival in 2025, XM1014-"Triptych" - a large scale triptych painting of a counter-strike weapon's texture maps, AR reinterpretations of Valdis Bušs’s paintings for the “Valdis Bušs 100” exhibition in Jūrmala, a 3D visualizer for music group’s “Tepat” entry in Latvia’s Eurovision selection in 2025. He has participated in each Art Academy’s annual art fair “Jaunmarka” since 2022, selling more than 10 paintings.

While Hugo does not always begin with a fixed conceptual framework, his practice is tied together by a drive toward originality — seeking fresh forms, combinations, and technologies. Whether in oil, digital space or installation, his work often draws attention to transitions: between states, between materials, between reality and representation.