Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker. His works have
been exhibited worldwide, and he has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over 70 monographs have been published on his work. He has received numerous awards, including the IV Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize (2024), the Hasselblad Award (2020), and the Hiroshima Art Prize (2018). He lives in New York.
Selected solo exhibitions: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2023); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2021); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, (2020); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2014); Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles (2013); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin (2012); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO) (2005); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel Gallery, London (1992).
Selected group exhibitions: Venice Biennial (2013, 2009, 2007, 1986); São Paulo Biennial (2021, 2010, 1989, 1987); Documenta, Kassel (2002, 1987).
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I Can‘t Go On. I‘ll Go On, 2016
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Searching for Africa in LIFE, 1996
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Life Magazine, April 19, 1968,, 1995
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A Logo for America, 1987
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A Logo for America, 1987
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Times Square, April 1987: A Logo For America, 1987
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981
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ALFREDO JAAR | RTBF
PRESS 17 September 2025For RTBF, Marc Oschinsky interviews Alfredo Jaar about his exhibition at the gallery La Fin du Monde . Alfredo Jaar uses contemporary art to draw...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR | BEAUXARTS
PRESS 10 September 2025In BeauxArts magazine, Maïlys Celeux-Lanval writes on Alfredo Jaar's exhibition at the gallery La Fin du Monde. He worked on it for five years. He...Read more -
ALFREDO JAAR | INFERNO MAGAZINE
PRESS 10 September 2025Inferno Magazine highlights Alfredo Jaar's exhibition La Fin du Monde . As wars for control of resources multiply around the world — from the devastation...Read more