Alfredo Jaar
1956–
Introduction
Alfredo Jaar (English: ; Spanish: [ˈɟʝaɾ]; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. 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.
He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.
Wikidata identifier
Q523915
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Roles
Artist, installation artist, painter, photographer, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500090589
Names
Alfredo Jaar
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