Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and documentary filmmaker. After finishing his training in architecture, he moved to New York. His work is shown extensively around the world. He participated in the Venice Biennials (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), São Paulo Biennials (1987, 1989, 2010), as well as the Kassel Documenta (1987, 2002).
Important solo exhibitions include those at the New Musem, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005); and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2021). Major research into his work took place at the Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d'Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017).
Jaar has carried out more than sixty public interventions around the world. More than fifty monographic publications have been published on his work. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. Jaar received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020.
The artist's work can be found in collections, such as that of MASP, São Paulo; Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York: Tate Collection, London; LACMA and MOCA, Los Angeles; Reina Sofia Art Center, Madrid; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among others.