Alfredo Jaar

Artist · Chile · On the map · Artists · Born 1956 · age 70

Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

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A life in dates

2021Honorary Doctor of the University of ChileAward2020Hasselblad AwardAward2019Honorary Doctor of the University of TalcaAward2013National Prize for Plastic ArtsAward1956Born5 February 1956

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Media & music

Photos 3

One Million Finnish Passports, Kiasma Museum exhibition, 2014

Women at Sharjah Biennale, 2019

Awards

Honorary Doctor of the University of Chile2021

Hasselblad Award2020

Honorary Doctor of the University of Talca2019

National Prize for Plastic Arts2013

Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

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.

Country

Chile