
Alfredo Jaar is an uncompromising and innovative artist, architect, and filmmaker. For over 40 years, Jaar has used photographs, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the limits and ethics of representation. By using a hybrid form of art-making, Jaar has consistently provoked, questioned, and searched for ways to heighten our consciousness about issues often forgotten or suppressed in the international sphere, while not relinquishing art’s formal and aesthetic power. Over his career, Jaar has explored significant political and social issues including genocide, the displacement of refugees across borders, and the balance of power between developing and industrialized nations.
Jaar’s work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice, Italy (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013); São Paulo, Brazil (1987, 1989, 2010); Documenta, Germany (1987, 2002); the Whitney Biennial (2022). In 2020, Jaar was the recipient of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, the most prestigious award for photography
in the world. Jaar was awarded the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize in 2019, and a solo exhibition will be presented in 2023. Other major recent surveys of his work have taken place at the MCA Chicago; Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, France; Hangar Bicocca, Italy; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles Museum of Art, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Tate Modern, England; Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of other institutions worldwide.
Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956 and has been based in New York City since 1982.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Buffalo, New York
Ongoing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
October 9, 2022 – January 16, 2023
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Quebec, Canada
June 9 – September 5, 2022
The Broad
Los Angeles, California
May 21 – September 25, 2022
Held on Saturday, May 14, 2022
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Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
April 6 – September 5, 2022
Chiostro del Bramante
Rome, Italy
Through January 8, 2023
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
Through July 3, 2022
With Alfredo Jaar and Koyo Kouoh
Held on February 25, 2021
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Hasselblad Center
Gothenburg, Sweden
March 10, 2020