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).