Alfredo Jaar
Born 1956 in Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini,” Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada
“May 1, 2011,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
“One Hundred Times Nguyen,” Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
“Alfredo Jaar: Marx Lounge,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Alfredo Jaar: Marx Lounge,” El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
“The Sound of Silence,” École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, France
“Three Women,” Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2010
“The Sound of Silence,” Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
“We Wish To Inform You That We Didn't Know,” Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2009
“The Sound of Silence,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2008
“It Is Difficult,” Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
“Politics of the Image,” South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“La Politique des Images,” Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006
Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
“Jaar SCL 2006,” Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile
“Muxima,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"The Sound of Silence," Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom, presented in association with the Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, United Kingdom
2005
“Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
“Muxima,” Grand Arts Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
“The Ashes of Gramsci,” Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
“The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2004
"Todo el Dolor del Mundo", Centro Portugues de Fotographia, Porto, Portugal
2003 “The Desire of the Cartographer,” Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany
“Six Seconds – It is Difficult,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2002
“Lament of the Images”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2001
“Clouds/Recent Projects”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
“The Silence: The Rwanda Project 1994-2000,” International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
2000
Art + Public, Geneva, Switzerland
“Emergencia,” Public Library, Umea, Denmark
“It is difficult”, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya Japan and Tokyo, Japan
“Waiting”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1999
“Lament of the Images”, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Traveled to Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1998
“Let there be Light: The Rwanda Project,” Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Traveled to Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain; Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
“The Rwanda Project, 1994-1998,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1997
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Johannesburg Biennale, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996
City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
1995
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1994
Fotografiska Museet and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Tilman, Brussels, Belgium
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany
1993
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Miami Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, University of
South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1992
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Torre de la Santa Cruz, Cadiz and Pabellon de Andalucia, Expo 92, Seville, Spain
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1991
Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1990
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, New York
Insam Gleicher Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
London Regional and Historical Museums, London, Ontario, Canada
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California; traveled to San José Museum of Art, San
Jose, California; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, Missouri
1989
Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L'Arche de la Fraternité, La Défense, Paris, France
University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
1988
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Galleria Lidia Carrieri, Rome, Italy
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1987
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida
Spectacolor Lightboard, One Times Square, New York., New York
1986
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Spring Street Subway Station, New York, New York
1985
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York
1979
Galeria CAL, Santiago, Chile
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"The Walls That Divide Us," apexart, New York, New York
“Seeing is Believing,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
“Déja – The Collection on Display,” Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
“Contemporary Art Archipelago,” Turku Archipelgo, Finland
“Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“ARS 11,” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
“Plot for a Biennial,” Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“Without Reality There is No Utopia,” Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
“Interventions in the Landscape,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Distant Star: an exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolaño,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles California. Travelling to kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
“Les Cendres de Pasolini,” Musée D’Art de Joliette, Joliette, Montréal
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
2010
"Touched," 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
“DISLOCACION,” National Council of Culture and the Arts, exhibited at various sites in Santiago, Chile. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
“The Crude and the Rare,” The Cooper Union, New York, New York
“The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” Museo Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
“The Philosophy of Money,” Lisbon City Museum, Portugal
“100 Acres,” The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
“Space,” MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arte Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
“Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy,” Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
“Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art,” The Kitchen, New York, New York
“The Flower of May,” Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
“Rewind: 1970s to 1990s Works from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“PRESS ART,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’Espoir,” Palais des arts et du festival, Dinard, France
“Colección Norte de Arte Contemporáneo del Gobierno de Cantabria,” Biblioteca Central y Archivo Histórico de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
“Disturbed Silence – Silence Disturbed,” Duffel, Belgium
Artefact 2010: ”On Gaps and Silent Documents,” STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2009
CREAM (CREativity for Arts and Media): International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Japan
“Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“World Images 3,” Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
"Compassion," Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York
"For the use of those who see," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Paisatges Creuats," Es Baluard, Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca, Spain “Against Exclusion,” Third Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
“Prospects: An Exploration of Mining,” The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
“On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
“The Spaces of the Image,” Le Mois de la Photo á Montréal, 11th international biennial of contemporary photography, Montréal, Canada
“Sightings: Searching for the Truth,” Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangzhou, China
“Contemporary Video Art,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“The Fear Society / Pabellon de la Urgencia,” Arsenale Novissimo, Project by the Region of Murcia, collateral event of the 53rd International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“For You/Para Usted,” Daros Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
“New Acquisitions 2007-2008,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
“Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa,” Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
“Aletheia - Positions in Contemporary Photography,” Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
2008
“Political/Minimal,” KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
“The PIG: 7 solo shows by Alfredo Jaar, Mario Grubisic, Paola Pivi, Gelitin, Jeremy Deller, Simon Martin, Roberto Cuoghi,” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, Florida
"Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography," Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“That Was Then…This Is Now,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
“Memories for Tomorrow: Works from the UBS Art Collection,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Cancelled, Erased & Removed,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“You Complete Me,” Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
“The Rencontres Internationales,” Paris/Berlin/Madrid Presented by the Complejo El Aguila, Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Instituto Cervantes, Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura, and Filmoteca Espanola
“Africa On: Beecroft, Jaar, Kentridge,” Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Pictures in Series,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
“No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection,” Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2007
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Equatorial Rhythms,” Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
“Power of 10: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum's 10th Anniversary,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“To be continued...” Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
“Existencias,” MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain
8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“AfterShock,” Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, in conjunction with Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Norwich, United Kingdom
“Afterglow” Galerie Pfriem, organized by Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
“Check List Luanda Pop,” African Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“Private/Corporate IV: The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection in dialogue with the DaimlerChrysler Collection,” Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
“Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York – A Selection from 1980 to 2006,” Aargauer Kunst Haus, Aarau, Switzerland
“System Error: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
“Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial,” Auckland, New Zealand
2006
1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
“A Curator’s Eye: the Visual Legacy of Robery A. Sobieszek,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Conjonctions,” Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“FotoFest2006: Artists Responding to Violence,” DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, Texas
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS), Seville, Spain
“Into Me / Out of Me,” P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Traveled through 2007 to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
“Kapital,” Kent Gallery, New York, New York
“Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Postcards From the Edge,” Visual AIDS benefit, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, New York
“Primitivism Revisited,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“The Gold Standard,” P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
“TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California; Traveled through 2008 to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2005
“Beyond Narcissus,” Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
“At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible,” Lombard-Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York, New York
“Double Exposure,” Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas, Nevada
“Emergencies,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León Spain
“Figuratively Speaking: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Fotografia! Arte 2005: Latin American Photography,” Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
“Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape,” Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
“Marking Time / Moving Images,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Points of View: Landscape and Photography,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2004
“About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Art by MacArthur Fellows”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
“Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape,” Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, The Bronx, New York
“Potential Images of the World,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
“Some Things Happening,” Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, Indiana
“The Ten Commandments,” Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
2003
“Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
“Experience,” Rotterdam Photo Biennale, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
“Human Condition/Global Position: 4 Contemporary Chilean Artists," Founder's Gallery, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri
“Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958-2002,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Sanctuary: Contemporary Art and Human Rights”, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
“Tainted Landscapes,” Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut
“Transferts,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“Upon Reflection….”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights,” conference hosted by Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; exhibitions at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, National Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2002
“Aquaria,” Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz; traveled to Kunstammlungen Chemnitz
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
“Cultural Crossing”, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Double Exposure,” Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany and New York, New York
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
“History Now: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Photography,” Liljevalch Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Traveled to Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden; Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköpings, Sweden; Dunkers Kulturhaus, Helsingborg, Sweden; Midlanda Konsthall, Sundsvall, Sweden; Konsthallen, Ronneby, Sweden
2001
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
“Il Dono, offerta ospitalita insidia”, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
“Minimalism Past And Presence”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“O Espiritu da Nossa Epoca,” Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“The Gift”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
“Versiones del Sur: Más allá del Documento”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Voir Ne Pas Voir La Guerre”, Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, Les Invalides, La Defense, Paris, France
2000
“An Intelligent Pressure”, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“FaceON”, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
“Frames of Reference from Object to Subject”, Ezra and Zilkha Gallery, Center or the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“inSITE2000”, San Diego/Tijuana: “The Cloud”, installation at Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
“SCULPTography”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1999
“Inferno & Paradiso,” BildMuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (Curated by Jaar)
“Scripta Manent,” Esso Gallery New York, New York
1998
“Do all oceans have walls?” Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
“Exiles,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
“Photography as Concept,” 4th International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
“The Edge of Awareness,” World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Garden of the Forking Paths,” Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights,” Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Fransisco, California
“Waterproof,” Centro Cultural de Belem, Expo 98, Lisbon, Portugal
1997
“Absolute Landscape,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
“American Stories,” Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Asi esta la Cosa: Instalacion y Arte Objeto en America Latina,” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
“FREEZE FRAME,” Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
“New Editions,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“New Grounds: Prints and Multiples,” University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida; traveled to the International Center for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
“The Crystal Stopper,” Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, New York
“Transformacion,” Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
1996
“Act/ Language: Power and Display,” The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York, New York, New York
Bienal de Vigo, Galicia, Spain
“Blurring the Boundaries. Installation Art: 1969-1996,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Continuity and Contradiction,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Cuarta Pared,” Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela
“Decathlon,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
“Dream Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“En Reserva,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
“Happy End,” Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Hebben Wij Het Geweten?” Provinciaal Museum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, Haaselt, Belgium
“Islands,” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
“Lichtbilder,” Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
“Limited Edition Artists Books,” Brooke Alexander, New York, New York
“Los Limites de la Fotografia Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; traveled to Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Macht / Onmacht,” MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
“One and Others,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Printemps de Cahors,” Cahors, France
”SHIFT,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Sin Fronteras: Arte Latinoamericano Actual,” Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
“The Luminous Image,” The Alternative Museum, New York, New York
“Thinking Print,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Transformation of the Work in Art,” Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York
“Transition-Dislocation,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
“Walk on the Soho Side,” New York, New York
1995
“ARS 95,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Dialogues de Paix,” Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
“Light into Art: From Video to Virtual Reality,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Livres d'Artistes,” Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Our Century,” Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
”The Spirit of Hiroshima and After,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1994
“Artaroundtown,” Malmo, Sweden
“Das Americas,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Equal Rights and Justice,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
“Images Pour La Lutte Contre Le Sida,” Musee National D'Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
“Lessons in Life,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Pohjoinen Valokuva 1994 (“Contemporary Living Violence”),” International Photographic Triennial, Oulu, Finland
“Public Interventions,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
“The Origin of Things,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Translucent Writings,” Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, New York; traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida
1993
“Camera Politic,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Imagemakers,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
”New Images of the World,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
“Magazin Im Magazin,” Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Bregenz, and Architectur Zentrum, Wien, Germany
“Personal Choice,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection”, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Traveled through 1994 to Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Prospect 93,” Frankfurter Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1992
“1968,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Ameriques Latines: Art Contemporain,” Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France
“AnteAmerica,” Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; Traveled through 1993 to Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; Yerbabuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
“Arte Amazonas. Museu de Arte Moderna,” Museu de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
“Betrayal of Means/Means of Betrayal,” Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; Traveled through 1993 to Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Traveled to Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Fontanelle, Potsdam Kunsthalle, Potsdam, Germany
“Encounters/Displacements,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Green Acres: Neo-Colonialism in the U.S, “ Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Washington
“Imaquinaciones: Dieciseis Miradas al 92,” Expo 92, Seville, Spain
“L'Art Renouvelle La Ville,” Musee National des Monuments Francais, Paris, France
“Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, “ Estacion Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain; Traveled through 1993 to Musee National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hotel des Arts, Fondation Nationale des arts, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig at Josef-Haubrich- Kunstahalle, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Molteplici Culture,” Convento San Egidio, Rome, Italy
“Pour la Suite du Monde,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
“Proiezioni,” Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy
“Regard Multiple,” Galeries Contemporaines, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
”Skulpturen - Fragmente,” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
“Trans-Voices,” Whitney Museum of American Art and diverse Subway stations, New York, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou and diverse Metro stations, Paris, France
1991
“Framed,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Heimat, Wewerka & Weiss Galerie, Berlin, Germany
“Imaquinaciones: Deicisies Miradas al 92,” Billboards, Mexico City, Mexico
“La Revanche de l'Image,” Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
“P/A,” Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain
“Repositioning Documentary,” KunstRAI 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“The Anonymous Other,” Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California
“Words & #s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1990
“Affirmative Actions,” Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Assembled: Works of Art Using Photography as a Construction Element,” University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
“Critical Realism,” Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Information,” Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California
“New Work: A New Generation,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“November, November,” Anselm Dreher Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“On the Edge: Between Sculpture and Photography,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
“Re-Writing History,” Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; Traveled to Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Scotland
“Savoir-vivre, Savoir-faire, Savoir-Être,” Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
“The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
“Tierra Encantada,” Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
“To Be And Not To Be,” Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1989
“A Climate of Site,” Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Camera Lucida,” Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada; exhibition traveled to Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
“Effets de Miroir,” C.A.C. Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonne
“Fictions,” Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, Canada
First International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle, Washington
“Hommage à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme,” Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Images Critiques,” Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“International Camera,” Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
“Magiciens de la Terre,” Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France and la Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France
“Not Photography,” Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Painting/Object/Photograph,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Prospect Photographie,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Tenir l'Image a Distance,” Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
“The New Concept,” Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
“The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s,” National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Une Autre Affaire,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Vis-à-Vis der Kamera,” Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
“Witness,” Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988
“Lo Permeable del Gesto,” Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain
“Public Discourse,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
“Presi X Incantamento,” Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Révélateurs,” Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Centre Saint Vincent, Herblay, France
“Temporary Public Art,” Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York
Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, New York. Traveled to Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York,
New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information,” Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987
19e Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
“American Policy,” Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
“Art and the Dialectic Process,” Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania
“Documenta 8,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Perverted by Language,” Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York
1986
“Aperto,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Artfor(u)m,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, New York
“When Attitudes Become Forms,” Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, New York
1985
“4 Chilean Artists in the CAYC of Buenos Aires,” CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
18e Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent,” The Alternative Museum, New York, New York
“Freedom Within,” Staller Center Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
“Not Just Any Pretty Picture,” P.S. 122, New York, New York
1984
“Art & Ideology,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Artists Space, New York, New York
“Aqua: 22 Latin American Artists Living and Working in the United States,” Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
“Art of the Americas,” Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York
“Call and Response: Art on Central America,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
“Chronicles,” INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, New York
“L'Esprit Encyclopédique,” New York Public Library, New York, New York
“Philosophies on the Art Process,” Makkom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Vision and Conscience,” University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
1983
“Catchwords,” Caidoz, New York, New York
“Chile, Chile,” Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
“Contemporary Latin American Artists,” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
“Hispanic Achievement in the Arts,” Equitable Center, New York, New York
“In/Out: Four Projects by Chilean Artists,” Washington Project for Arts, Washington D.C.
“Terminal New York,” Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, New York
1982
12e Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Contextos,” Galeria Sur, Santiago, Chile
“Segundo Encuentro de Video,” Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago
1981
“2nd Bienal de Arte Universitario,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Grafica Chilena Contemporanea,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Primer Encuentro de Video,” Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago, Chile
“Quinta Bienal Internacional de Valparaíso,” Valparaíso, Chile
“Séptima Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1980
“Centenario del Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Salon de Grafica,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Segundo Encuentro de Arte Joven,” Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
“Sexta Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1979
“Primera Bienal de Arte Universitario,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Quinta Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21C Museum Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky
Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chase Manhattan, New York, New York
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée National d´Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museum het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Cultural Center, South Brisbane, Australia
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Tate Britain, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
www.alfredojaar.net
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini,” Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada
“May 1, 2011,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
“One Hundred Times Nguyen,” Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
“Alfredo Jaar: Marx Lounge,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Alfredo Jaar: Marx Lounge,” El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
“The Sound of Silence,” École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, France
“Three Women,” Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2010
“The Sound of Silence,” Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
“We Wish To Inform You That We Didn't Know,” Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2009
“The Sound of Silence,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2008
“It Is Difficult,” Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
“Politics of the Image,” South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“La Politique des Images,” Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006
Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
“Jaar SCL 2006,” Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile
“Muxima,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"The Sound of Silence," Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom, presented in association with the Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, United Kingdom
2005
“Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
“Muxima,” Grand Arts Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
“The Ashes of Gramsci,” Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
“The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2004
"Todo el Dolor del Mundo", Centro Portugues de Fotographia, Porto, Portugal
2003 “The Desire of the Cartographer,” Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany
“Six Seconds – It is Difficult,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2002
“Lament of the Images”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2001
“Clouds/Recent Projects”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
“The Silence: The Rwanda Project 1994-2000,” International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
2000
Art + Public, Geneva, Switzerland
“Emergencia,” Public Library, Umea, Denmark
“It is difficult”, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya Japan and Tokyo, Japan
“Waiting”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1999
“Lament of the Images”, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Traveled to Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1998
“Let there be Light: The Rwanda Project,” Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Traveled to Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain; Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
“The Rwanda Project, 1994-1998,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1997
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Johannesburg Biennale, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996
City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
1995
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1994
Fotografiska Museet and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Tilman, Brussels, Belgium
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany
1993
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Miami Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, University of
South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1992
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Torre de la Santa Cruz, Cadiz and Pabellon de Andalucia, Expo 92, Seville, Spain
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1991
Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1990
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, New York
Insam Gleicher Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
London Regional and Historical Museums, London, Ontario, Canada
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California; traveled to San José Museum of Art, San
Jose, California; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, Missouri
1989
Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L'Arche de la Fraternité, La Défense, Paris, France
University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
1988
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Galleria Lidia Carrieri, Rome, Italy
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1987
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida
Spectacolor Lightboard, One Times Square, New York., New York
1986
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Spring Street Subway Station, New York, New York
1985
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York
1979
Galeria CAL, Santiago, Chile
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"The Walls That Divide Us," apexart, New York, New York
“Seeing is Believing,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
“Déja – The Collection on Display,” Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
“Contemporary Art Archipelago,” Turku Archipelgo, Finland
“Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“ARS 11,” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
“Plot for a Biennial,” Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“Without Reality There is No Utopia,” Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
“Interventions in the Landscape,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Distant Star: an exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolaño,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles California. Travelling to kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
“Les Cendres de Pasolini,” Musée D’Art de Joliette, Joliette, Montréal
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
2010
"Touched," 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
“DISLOCACION,” National Council of Culture and the Arts, exhibited at various sites in Santiago, Chile. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
“The Crude and the Rare,” The Cooper Union, New York, New York
“The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” Museo Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
“The Philosophy of Money,” Lisbon City Museum, Portugal
“100 Acres,” The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
“Space,” MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arte Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
“Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy,” Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
“Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art,” The Kitchen, New York, New York
“The Flower of May,” Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
“Rewind: 1970s to 1990s Works from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“PRESS ART,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’Espoir,” Palais des arts et du festival, Dinard, France
“Colección Norte de Arte Contemporáneo del Gobierno de Cantabria,” Biblioteca Central y Archivo Histórico de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
“Disturbed Silence – Silence Disturbed,” Duffel, Belgium
Artefact 2010: ”On Gaps and Silent Documents,” STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2009
CREAM (CREativity for Arts and Media): International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Japan
“Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“World Images 3,” Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
"Compassion," Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York
"For the use of those who see," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Paisatges Creuats," Es Baluard, Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca, Spain “Against Exclusion,” Third Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
“Prospects: An Exploration of Mining,” The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
“On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
“The Spaces of the Image,” Le Mois de la Photo á Montréal, 11th international biennial of contemporary photography, Montréal, Canada
“Sightings: Searching for the Truth,” Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangzhou, China
“Contemporary Video Art,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
“The Fear Society / Pabellon de la Urgencia,” Arsenale Novissimo, Project by the Region of Murcia, collateral event of the 53rd International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“For You/Para Usted,” Daros Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
“New Acquisitions 2007-2008,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
“Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa,” Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
“Aletheia - Positions in Contemporary Photography,” Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
2008
“Political/Minimal,” KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
“The PIG: 7 solo shows by Alfredo Jaar, Mario Grubisic, Paola Pivi, Gelitin, Jeremy Deller, Simon Martin, Roberto Cuoghi,” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, Florida
"Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography," Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“That Was Then…This Is Now,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
“Memories for Tomorrow: Works from the UBS Art Collection,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Cancelled, Erased & Removed,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“You Complete Me,” Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
“The Rencontres Internationales,” Paris/Berlin/Madrid Presented by the Complejo El Aguila, Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Instituto Cervantes, Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura, and Filmoteca Espanola
“Africa On: Beecroft, Jaar, Kentridge,” Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
“Arte ? Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,” El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
“Pictures in Series,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
“No Es Neutrala – Daros Latinamerica Collection,” Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2007
“New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Equatorial Rhythms,” Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
“Power of 10: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum's 10th Anniversary,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“To be continued...” Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
“Existencias,” MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain
8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“AfterShock,” Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, in conjunction with Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Norwich, United Kingdom
“Afterglow” Galerie Pfriem, organized by Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
“Check List Luanda Pop,” African Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
“Private/Corporate IV: The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection in dialogue with the DaimlerChrysler Collection,” Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
“Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York – A Selection from 1980 to 2006,” Aargauer Kunst Haus, Aarau, Switzerland
“System Error: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
“Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial,” Auckland, New Zealand
2006
1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
“A Curator’s Eye: the Visual Legacy of Robery A. Sobieszek,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Conjonctions,” Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“FotoFest2006: Artists Responding to Violence,” DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, Texas
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS), Seville, Spain
“Into Me / Out of Me,” P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Traveled through 2007 to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
“Kapital,” Kent Gallery, New York, New York
“Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Postcards From the Edge,” Visual AIDS benefit, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, New York
“Primitivism Revisited,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“The Gold Standard,” P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
“TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California; Traveled through 2008 to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2005
“Beyond Narcissus,” Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
“At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible,” Lombard-Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York, New York
“Double Exposure,” Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas, Nevada
“Emergencies,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León Spain
“Figuratively Speaking: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Fotografia! Arte 2005: Latin American Photography,” Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
“Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape,” Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
“Marking Time / Moving Images,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Points of View: Landscape and Photography,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2004
“About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Art by MacArthur Fellows”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
“Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape,” Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, The Bronx, New York
“Potential Images of the World,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
“Some Things Happening,” Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, Indiana
“The Ten Commandments,” Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
2003
“Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
“Experience,” Rotterdam Photo Biennale, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
“Human Condition/Global Position: 4 Contemporary Chilean Artists," Founder's Gallery, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri
“Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958-2002,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Sanctuary: Contemporary Art and Human Rights”, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
“Tainted Landscapes,” Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut
“Transferts,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“Upon Reflection….”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
“Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights,” conference hosted by Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; exhibitions at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, National Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2002
“Aquaria,” Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz; traveled to Kunstammlungen Chemnitz
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
“Cultural Crossing”, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Double Exposure,” Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany and New York, New York
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
“History Now: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Photography,” Liljevalch Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Traveled to Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden; Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköpings, Sweden; Dunkers Kulturhaus, Helsingborg, Sweden; Midlanda Konsthall, Sundsvall, Sweden; Konsthallen, Ronneby, Sweden
2001
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
“Il Dono, offerta ospitalita insidia”, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
“Minimalism Past And Presence”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“O Espiritu da Nossa Epoca,” Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“The Gift”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
“Versiones del Sur: Más allá del Documento”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Voir Ne Pas Voir La Guerre”, Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, Les Invalides, La Defense, Paris, France
2000
“An Intelligent Pressure”, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“FaceON”, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
“Frames of Reference from Object to Subject”, Ezra and Zilkha Gallery, Center or the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
“inSITE2000”, San Diego/Tijuana: “The Cloud”, installation at Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
“SCULPTography”, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1999
“Inferno & Paradiso,” BildMuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (Curated by Jaar)
“Scripta Manent,” Esso Gallery New York, New York
1998
“Do all oceans have walls?” Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
“Exiles,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
“Photography as Concept,” 4th International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
“The Edge of Awareness,” World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Garden of the Forking Paths,” Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights,” Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Fransisco, California
“Waterproof,” Centro Cultural de Belem, Expo 98, Lisbon, Portugal
1997
“Absolute Landscape,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
“American Stories,” Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Asi esta la Cosa: Instalacion y Arte Objeto en America Latina,” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
“FREEZE FRAME,” Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
“New Editions,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“New Grounds: Prints and Multiples,” University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida; traveled to the International Center for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
“The Crystal Stopper,” Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, New York
“Transformacion,” Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
1996
“Act/ Language: Power and Display,” The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York, New York, New York
Bienal de Vigo, Galicia, Spain
“Blurring the Boundaries. Installation Art: 1969-1996,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Continuity and Contradiction,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“Cuarta Pared,” Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela
“Decathlon,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
“Dream Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
“En Reserva,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
“Happy End,” Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Hebben Wij Het Geweten?” Provinciaal Museum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, Haaselt, Belgium
“Islands,” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
“Lichtbilder,” Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
“Limited Edition Artists Books,” Brooke Alexander, New York, New York
“Los Limites de la Fotografia Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; traveled to Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Macht / Onmacht,” MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
“One and Others,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Printemps de Cahors,” Cahors, France
”SHIFT,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Sin Fronteras: Arte Latinoamericano Actual,” Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
“The Luminous Image,” The Alternative Museum, New York, New York
“Thinking Print,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Transformation of the Work in Art,” Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York
“Transition-Dislocation,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
“Walk on the Soho Side,” New York, New York
1995
“ARS 95,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Dialogues de Paix,” Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
“Light into Art: From Video to Virtual Reality,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Livres d'Artistes,” Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Our Century,” Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
”The Spirit of Hiroshima and After,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1994
“Artaroundtown,” Malmo, Sweden
“Das Americas,” Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
“Equal Rights and Justice,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
“Images Pour La Lutte Contre Le Sida,” Musee National D'Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
“Lessons in Life,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Pohjoinen Valokuva 1994 (“Contemporary Living Violence”),” International Photographic Triennial, Oulu, Finland
“Public Interventions,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
“The Origin of Things,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Translucent Writings,” Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, New York; traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida
1993
“Camera Politic,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Imagemakers,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
”New Images of the World,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
“Magazin Im Magazin,” Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Bregenz, and Architectur Zentrum, Wien, Germany
“Personal Choice,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection”, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Traveled through 1994 to Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Prospect 93,” Frankfurter Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1992
“1968,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Ameriques Latines: Art Contemporain,” Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France
“AnteAmerica,” Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; Traveled through 1993 to Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; Yerbabuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
“Arte Amazonas. Museu de Arte Moderna,” Museu de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
“Betrayal of Means/Means of Betrayal,” Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; Traveled through 1993 to Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Traveled to Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Fontanelle, Potsdam Kunsthalle, Potsdam, Germany
“Encounters/Displacements,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
“Green Acres: Neo-Colonialism in the U.S, “ Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Washington
“Imaquinaciones: Dieciseis Miradas al 92,” Expo 92, Seville, Spain
“L'Art Renouvelle La Ville,” Musee National des Monuments Francais, Paris, France
“Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, “ Estacion Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain; Traveled through 1993 to Musee National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hotel des Arts, Fondation Nationale des arts, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig at Josef-Haubrich- Kunstahalle, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Molteplici Culture,” Convento San Egidio, Rome, Italy
“Pour la Suite du Monde,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
“Proiezioni,” Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy
“Regard Multiple,” Galeries Contemporaines, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
”Skulpturen - Fragmente,” Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
“Trans-Voices,” Whitney Museum of American Art and diverse Subway stations, New York, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou and diverse Metro stations, Paris, France
1991
“Framed,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
Heimat, Wewerka & Weiss Galerie, Berlin, Germany
“Imaquinaciones: Deicisies Miradas al 92,” Billboards, Mexico City, Mexico
“La Revanche de l'Image,” Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
“P/A,” Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain
“Repositioning Documentary,” KunstRAI 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“The Anonymous Other,” Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California
“Words & #s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1990
“Affirmative Actions,” Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Assembled: Works of Art Using Photography as a Construction Element,” University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
“Critical Realism,” Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Information,” Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California
“New Work: A New Generation,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“November, November,” Anselm Dreher Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“On the Edge: Between Sculpture and Photography,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
“Re-Writing History,” Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; Traveled to Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Scotland
“Savoir-vivre, Savoir-faire, Savoir-Être,” Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
“The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
“Tierra Encantada,” Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
“To Be And Not To Be,” Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1989
“A Climate of Site,” Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Camera Lucida,” Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada; exhibition traveled to Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
“Effets de Miroir,” C.A.C. Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonne
“Fictions,” Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, Canada
First International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle, Washington
“Hommage à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme,” Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Images Critiques,” Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“International Camera,” Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
“Magiciens de la Terre,” Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France and la Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France
“Not Photography,” Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Painting/Object/Photograph,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Prospect Photographie,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Tenir l'Image a Distance,” Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
“The New Concept,” Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
“The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s,” National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Une Autre Affaire,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Vis-à-Vis der Kamera,” Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
“Witness,” Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988
“Lo Permeable del Gesto,” Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain
“Public Discourse,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
“Presi X Incantamento,” Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Révélateurs,” Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Centre Saint Vincent, Herblay, France
“Temporary Public Art,” Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York
Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, New York. Traveled to Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York,
New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information,” Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987
19e Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
“American Policy,” Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
“Art and the Dialectic Process,” Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania
“Documenta 8,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Perverted by Language,” Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York
1986
“Aperto,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Artfor(u)m,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, New York
“When Attitudes Become Forms,” Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, New York
1985
“4 Chilean Artists in the CAYC of Buenos Aires,” CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
18e Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent,” The Alternative Museum, New York, New York
“Freedom Within,” Staller Center Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
“Not Just Any Pretty Picture,” P.S. 122, New York, New York
1984
“Art & Ideology,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Artists Space, New York, New York
“Aqua: 22 Latin American Artists Living and Working in the United States,” Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
“Art of the Americas,” Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, New York
“Call and Response: Art on Central America,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
“Chronicles,” INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, New York
“L'Esprit Encyclopédique,” New York Public Library, New York, New York
“Philosophies on the Art Process,” Makkom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Vision and Conscience,” University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
1983
“Catchwords,” Caidoz, New York, New York
“Chile, Chile,” Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
“Contemporary Latin American Artists,” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
“Hispanic Achievement in the Arts,” Equitable Center, New York, New York
“In/Out: Four Projects by Chilean Artists,” Washington Project for Arts, Washington D.C.
“Terminal New York,” Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, New York
1982
12e Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Contextos,” Galeria Sur, Santiago, Chile
“Segundo Encuentro de Video,” Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago
1981
“2nd Bienal de Arte Universitario,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Grafica Chilena Contemporanea,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Primer Encuentro de Video,” Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago, Chile
“Quinta Bienal Internacional de Valparaíso,” Valparaíso, Chile
“Séptima Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1980
“Centenario del Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Salon de Grafica,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Segundo Encuentro de Arte Joven,” Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
“Sexta Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1979
“Primera Bienal de Arte Universitario,” Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Quinta Exhibicion,” Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
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Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée National d´Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museum het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Cultural Center, South Brisbane, Australia
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
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Tate Britain, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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