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Alfredo Jaar
Artist
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).
Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin (2012); Rencontres d'Arles (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2014); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017); Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town (2020); SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2023), and KINDL, Berlin (2024).
The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over eighty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020. In 2024 he was awarded the IV Albert Camus Mediterranean Prize. In 2025 he was selected as the recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal and received the 11th Prix Pictet.
His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National galerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.
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Alfredo Jaar
A Logo for America, 1987/2014
Public intervention
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Alfredo Jaar
Lament of the Images, 2002
Three illuminated texts, light screen, text by David Levi Strauss
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Alfredo Jaar
The Sound of Silence, 2006
Mixed media installation
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Alfredo Jaar
Shadows, 2014
Mixed media installation
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Alfredo Jaar
The End of the World, 2023
Cobalt, Rare Earths (Neodymium), Copper, Tin, Nickel, Lithium,
Manganese, Coltan (Niobium), Germanium (Argentium), Platinum
4 x 4 x 4 cm
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Padiglione Rosso, 2022
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Padiglione Rosso, 2022
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Padiglione Rosso, 2022
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Padiglione Rosso, 2022
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