Alfredo Jaar is a renowned artist, architect, and filmmaker, whose career-long investigation into the politics of the image is revealed as ever-more pertinent to our contemporary time. Preferencing that which has been sidelined or obscured, not least those countries in the Americas so consistently obscured by their northern neighbour, Jaar engages with the injustices of recent history. Above all, Jaar’s work considers the dynamics of power, and the power wielded through image.
Jaar’s work resides in notable collections across the globe, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and M+, Hong Kong. Jaar has realised some seventy public interventions around the world. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacArthur Fellow, and recipient of the Hiroshima Art Prize and Hasselblad Award. Recent major solo exhibitions include those at the SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
Jaar was born in 1956; he lives and works in New York.
