Artist

Alfredo Jaar

Portrait of Alfredo Jaar
Portrait of Alfredo Jaar

Chilean, b. 1956

Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago.

Alfredo Jaar (English:; Spanish:; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war, the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border.

He has been featured on Art:21. He won the Hasselblad Award for 2020. He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.

Works by Alfredo Jaar

Collections represented

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