Alfredo Jaar
Credit: Andrea Rego Barros
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker whose work documents humanity’s impact on the planet.
Jaar participated in the Venice Biennale (1986, 2007, 2009 and 2013) and the Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (1987, 1989, 2010 and 2021), as well as Documenta in Kassel, Germany (1987 and 2002).
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2007); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, all in Berlin (2012); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2013); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom (2017); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2020); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2021); and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2023).
Jaar has received numerous awards including the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in Sweden in 2020. In 2024, he was awarded the IV Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize in Spain and in 2025 he won the Edward MacDowell Medal in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
He was awarded the eleventh Prix Pictet for his series The End.
His work can be found in dozens of public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; M+, Hong Kong; and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000, both in the United States.