Alfredo Jaar
Born in 1956 in Santiago (Chili), ALFREDO JAAR lives and works in New York (United States). He has developed a body of photographic, cinematographic, and installation work since the 1980s. His training as an architect is evident in his visual work, which is notable for the use of photographs in installations that attest to his mastery of the space. A Chilean native strongly influenced by French culture who took refuge from the Pinochet dictatorship, whose abuses and whose ties with American power at the time he has ceaselessly decried, he...Read more
Works
Installation view, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2021
Exhibition view, MAC, Marseille, France, 2015
Culture = Capital, 2010
Exhibition view, The 55th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale, Pavilion of Chile, Venice, Italy, 2013
Three Women (Aung San Suu Kyi), 2010
Exhibition view, Louvre Lens, France, 2014
Cien Anos de Soledad, 1985
Searching for Africa in LIFE, kamel mennour, Paris, 1996
Exhibition view, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012
The Sound of Silence, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, 2006
du voyage, des gens, 2011
Unseen (100 days in 1994), 1997
Faces, 1995
Untitled (Newsweek), 1994
May 1, 2011
Avec Humanité et coeur, kamel mennour, Paris, 1996
September 15, 2009
M’illumino d’immenso
Exhibitions & News
Alfredo Jaar, El lado oscuro de la Luna
Past exhibition
14 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
Alfredo Jaar, The 11th Hiroshima Art Prize
Past exhibition
22 July — 15 October 2023
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Alfredo Jaar, Rotunda Project 2023
Past exhibition
29 March — 27 August 2023
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Group show, Empyrean
Past exhibition
27 March — 17 June 2023
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8
Mohamed Bourouissa, Alfredo Jaar, Emplotment
Past exhibition
13 May — 28 August 2022
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Alfredo Jaar, L’altro, lo stesso
Past exhibition
26 October 2021 — 27 March 2022
ZACentrale, Palermo
Alfredo Jaar, Whispers and Cries
Past exhibition
15 October 2021 — 23 January 2022
Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg
Alfredo Jaar, The Rwanda Project
Past exhibition
19 November 2020 — 15 January 2022
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
Alfredo Jaar, The Structure of Images
Past exhibition
14 August 2021 — 9 January 2022
MCA Chicago
Alfredo Jaar, Ann Veronica Janssens, -“Mehr Licht!”- (more light!)
Past exhibition
30 October — 12 December 2021
Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno
Alfredo Jaar, 34ª Bienal de São Paulo
Past exhibition
4 September — 5 December 2021
Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo
Alfredo Jaar, Solo exhibition
Past exhibition
26 August — 5 December 2021
Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo
Alfredo Jaar, You do not take a photograph. You make it.
Past exhibition
19 May — 24 October 2021
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris