Alfredo JAAR

Untitled (Water), 1990

Gold in the Morning, 1985

Hong Kong, 1990
50x50x12 cm ed.10

Dublin, 2009
Fujiflex print mounted on museum board
61 x 76 cm ed.15 (CREAM Edition)

The Rwanda Project

Men on Bridge, 2000

Emmanuel, 2000

Waiting, 2000

Biography

1956: Born in Santiago, Chile.
1982: Moved to the United States.
1985: Received the Guggenheim Fellowship.
1986: Participated in the Venice Biennale (also participated in 2007, 2009, and 2013).
1987: Participated in the São Paulo Biennial (also participated in 1989, 2010, and 2021).
1987: Participated in Documenta (Kassel) (also participated in 2002).
2000: Received the MacArthur Fellowship.
2018: Awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize.
2020: Awarded the Hasselblad Award.
2024: Awarded the Albert Camus Mediterranean Prize.
2025: Awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal.
2025: Awarded the Prix Pictet.

Born in 1956 in Santiago, Chile. Studied architecture and filmmaking at the University of Chile. To escape the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, he relocated to New York City in 1982. He is currently based in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1986, he became the first Latin American artist to participate individually in the Venice Biennale. He has consistently participated in major international exhibitions, including Documenta (Kassel) and the São Paulo Biennial, and continues to deliver powerful social and political messages globally, as exemplified by his receipt of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1992: New Museum, New York
1992: Whitechapel Gallery, London
1994: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1995: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), USA
2005: Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Italy
2007: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
2008: Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2012: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2012: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2012: Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, Germany
2013: Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2014: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2017: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
2020: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa
2021: Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
2023: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2023: National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), Santiago, Chile
2024: KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2025: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP)
Tate, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
M+, Hong Kong (among others)