Alfredo Jaar Biography

SOLO SHOWS

2011
  • Three Women, kamel mennour, Paris.
  • The Sound of Silence, Cour vitrée, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
  • Alfredo Jaar: Marx Lounge, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville.
  • Alfredo Jaar: The Marx Lounge, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, SMBA.
2010
  • Park of the Laments, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis.
  • We wish to inform you that we didn’t know, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Conecticut, Storrs.
  • La Isla Absoluta, Galeria Florencia Loewenthal, Santiago, Chili.
  • Dislocation, MAC, Santiago, Chili.
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid.
2009
  • Alfredo Jaar: The Sound of Silence, Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • Muxima, La Marrána, Montemarcello.
2008
  • Alfredo Jaar: Politics of the Image, South London Gallery, London.
  • Gold in the Morning, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya.
  • Is the wind you? (For Kurihara Sadako), Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo.
  • It Is Difficult, Spazio Oberdan and Hangar Bicocca, Milan.
2007
  • Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
  • La Politique des Images, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.
  • Muxima, CCB, Lisbonne.
2006
  • Jaar SCL 2006, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefonica, and Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago.
  • Muxima, MAMCO, Genève.
  • Muxima, Fundacion Tapies, Barcelona.
  • Muxima, Reina Sofia, Madrid.
  • Muxima, Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • Muxima, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid.
  • Alfredo Jaar: The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
2005
  • Muxima, Villa Medici, Rome.
  • Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, MACRO, Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.
  • Le ceneri di Gramsci, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome.
  • The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
  • Muxima, Grand Arts, Kansas City.
2004
  • Todo el Dolor del Mundo, Centro Portugues de Fotographia, Porto, Portugal.
2003
  • The Desire of the Cartographer, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
  • Six Seconds / It is Difficult, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany.
2002
  • Lament of the Images, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
2001
  • Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Switzerland.
  • Clouds/Recent Projects, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Switzerland.
  • The Silence: The Rwanda Project 1994-2000, International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.
2000
  • Waiting, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, California.
  • It is difficult, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  • New Works, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya Japan and Tokyo, Japan.
  • Art + Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden.
  • Emergencia, Public Library, Umea, Denmark.
1999
  • Lament of the Images, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; traveled to Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1998
  • Let there be Light: The Rwanda Project, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain; traveled to Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain.
  • Let there be Light: The Rwanda Project, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands.
  • The Rwanda Project, 1994-1998, Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • Public Project for Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
1997
  • Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain.
  • Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany.
  • The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.
  • Johannesburg Biennale, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1996
  • City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
1995
  • Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
1994
  • Fotografiska Museet and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Galerie Tilman, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain.
  • IFA, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
1993
  • Miami Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, traveled to Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
  • Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany.
  • Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.
  • Tramway, Glasgow, Ireland.
  • Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1992
  • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  • Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England.
  • Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Ireland.
  • The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  • Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.
  • Torre de la Santa Cruz, Cadiz and Pabellon de Andalucia, Expo 92, Seville, Spain.
1991
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
  • Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain.
  • Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
  • Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1990
  • San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California; traveled to San José Museum of Art, California; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Laumeier Sculpture Park, St.Louis, Missouri.
  • Diane Brown Gallery, New York, New York.
  • London Regional and Historical Museums, London, Ontario, Canada.
  • Insam Gleicher Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1989
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado.
  • University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
  • L’Arche de la Fraternité, La Défense, Paris, France.
  • Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, New York.
  • University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
1988
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Diane Brown Gallery, New York.
  • Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
  • Galleria Lidia Carrieri, Rome, Italy.
1987
  • Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida.
  • Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York.
  • Spectacolor Lightboard, One Times Square, New York.
1986
  • Spring Street Subway Station, New York.
  • Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1985
  • Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York.
1979
  • Galeria CAL, Santiago, Chile.

GROUP SHOWS

2011
  • Sharjah Biennial 10.
  • Ars 11, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.
  • Contemporary Art Archipelago, CAA,Turku.
2010
  • Space, MAXXI, Rome.
  • The Flower of May, Biennale Hall, Guangju, Corée du Sud.
  • Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art, The Kitchen, New York.
  • Rewind: 1970s to 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon.
  • The Philosophy of Money, Lisbon City Museum, Lisbon.
  • Artefact Festival, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Hope, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard.
  • Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid.
  • The Fifth Genre, Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • Ars Itineris, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
  • 6e Biennal de Liverpool, UK.
  • 29e Biennal de Sao Paolo.
2009
  • For You, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich.
  • Continual Rifts, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.
  • Aletheia, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki.
  • Voids: A Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern;Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz.
  • Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangzhou, China.
  • The Fear Society, Pabellón de la Urgencia, Venice Biennale.
  • En los márgenes del arte. Creación y compromiso politico, MACBA, Barcelona.
2008
  • Risky Business Art, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne.
  • Aurum: L’or dans l’art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Biel.
  • Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
  • That Was Then…This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
  • Africa On: Beecroft, Jaar, Kentridge, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan.
  • Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960 — 2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York.
  • Pictures in Series, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York.
  • Framing and Being Unframed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Ezraand Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
2007
  • To Be Continued…,: Art Created for Magasin 3 Over Twenty Years, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm.
  • AfterShock, Sainsbury Centre for the Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
  • Afterglow, Galerie Pfreim, Lacoste.
  • Check List: Luanda Pop, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venise.
  • Puntos de Vista, Zeitgenossisceh Kunst aus der Daros — Latinamerica Collection, Museum Bochum, Bochum.
  • Sharjah Biennial 8 — Still Life: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah.
  • The Power of Ten: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum’s 10th Anniversary, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
  • Macro Future, Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.
  • Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York — A Selection from 1980 to 2006, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau.
  • New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 — 2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works,
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • Equatorial Rhythms, Stenersen Museum, Oslo.
  • Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  • Existencias, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León.
  • Private/Corporate IV: The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection indialogue with the Daimler Chrysler Collection,
  • Haus Huth, Berlin.
  • System Error: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse — Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna.
  • Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Negatec, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires IBCA — International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague.
2006
  • Confini — Boundaries, Museo d’Arte Provincia Nuoro, Nuoro.
  • Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
  • 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands.
  • The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
  • 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS2), Seville.
  • Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York.
  • Into me/ Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; traveled to Kunst — Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
  • Beautiful Suffering — Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
  • Review — 25 Jahre Österreischische Ludwig Stiftung, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna.
  • The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  • A Curator´s Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
  • En las fronteras, Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Gênes.
  • La visíon impura, Fondos de la colección permanente, MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
  • Gyroscope, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Festival Photo et Video de Biarritz, Biarritz Brighton / Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Brighton.
  • Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota.
  • TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla; traveling through 2008 toMemorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
  • FotoFest2006: Artists Responding to Violence, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston.
  • Conjonctions, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève.
2005
  • Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin.
  • The Fluidity of Time — Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
  • Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM — Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe.
  • Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
  • Nuove acquisizioni. Due anni di crescita della collezione MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.
  • Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse — Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna.
  • Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
  • Flight 405, Galerie Sfier — Semler, Hamburg.
  • The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
  • Concerning War — Soft Target. War as a Daily, First — Hand Reality, BAK, Utrecht.
  • Marking time: moving images, Miami Art Museum, Miami Sight — Cruising, Marugame Genichiro — Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame.
  • At The Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York.
  • Points of View: Landscape and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York.
  • 05 WEST Know Your Rights Festival, Leipzig.
  • Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible, Lombard — Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York.
  • Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC Museo Extrmeño eIberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz.
  • Fotografia! Arte 2005: Latin American Photography, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa.
  • Double Exposure, Godt — Cleary Projects, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
  • Emergencias, MUSAC Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León.
  • Veinte años y un día, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid.
2004
  • Art by MacArthur Fellows Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Some Things Happening, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, Bronx, New York.
  • About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany.
  • Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany.
  • Potential Images of the World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.
2003
  • Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Upon Reflection, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York.
  • Human Condition/Global Position: 4 Contemporary Chilean Artists, Founder’s Gallery,
  • The Sheldon Art Galleries, St.Louis, Missouri.
  • Sanctuary: Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Tainted Landscapes, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
  • Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, National Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
  • Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York.
  • Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958-2002," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
  • Experience, Rotterdam Photo Biennale, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Transferts, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain.
2002
  • History Now: The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Photography," Liljevalch Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; traveled to Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden; Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköpings, Sweden; Dunkers Kulturhaus, Helsingborg, Sweden; Midlanda Konsthall, Sundsvall, Sweden; Konsthallen, Ronneby, Sweden.
  • Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany and New York, New York.
  • Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • Aquaria, Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz; traveled to Kunstammlungen Chemnitz.
  • Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden.
  • Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain.
2001
  • Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • The Gift, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.
  • Voir Ne Pas Voir La Guerre, Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, Invalides, La Defense, Paris, France.
  • Versiones del Sur: Más allá del Documento, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
  • Il Dono, offerta ospitalita insidia, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.
  • Minimalism Past And Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
  • O Espiritu da Nossa Epoca, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
2000
  • FaceON, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
  • inSITE2000, San Diego/Tijuana: “The Cloud,” installation at Playas de Tijuana, Mexico.
  • An Intelligent Pressure," Site Gallery, Sheffield.
  • SCULPTography, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
  • Frames of Reference from Object to Subject, Ezra and Zilkha Gallery, Center or the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
  • Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
  • International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.
1999
  • Inferno & Paradiso, BildMuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (exhibition curated by Jaar).
  • Scripta Manent," Esso Gallery New York, New York.
1998
  • Do all oceans have walls? Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.
  • The edge of awareness, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Photography as Concept, 4th International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany.
  • Waterproof, Centro Cultural de Belem, Expo 98, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Exiles, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights, Art Department Gallery,
  • San Francisco State University, San Fransisco, California.
  • The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1997
  • Johannesburg Biennale, Johannseburg, South Africa.
  • American Stories, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Asi esta la Cosa: Instalacion y Arte Objeto en America Latina, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico.
  • The Crystal Stopper, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, New York.
  • FREEZE FRAME, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.
  • New Grounds: Prints and Multiples, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida; traveled to the International Center for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Transformacion, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain.
  • New Editions, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
1996
  • En Reserva, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
  • Blurring the Boundaries. Installation Art: 1969-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
  • Lichtbilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany.
  • SHIFT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
  • Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France.
  • Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany.
  • Macht / Onmacht, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Cuarta Pared, Museo del Oeste, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
  • Bienal de Vigo, Galicia, Spain.
  • Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Continuity and Contradiction, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
  • The Luminous Image, The Alternative Museum, New York, New York.
  • Los Limites de la Fotografia Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile;
  • traveled to Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires.
  • One and Others, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
  • Walk on the Soho Side, New York, New York.
  • Transition-Dislocation, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Sin Fronteras: Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Spain.
  • Transformation of the Work in Art, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.
  • Limited Edition Artists Books, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York.
  • Act/ Language: Power and Display, The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York, New York, New York.
  • Decathlon, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Dream Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
  • Hebben Wij Het Geweten? Provinciaal Museum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, Haaselt, Belgium.
1995
  • ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
  • The Spirit of Hiroshima and After, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Dialogues de Paix, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Our Century, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.
  • Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea.
  • Light into Art: From Video to Virtual Reality, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Livres d’Artistes, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
1994
  • Lessons in Life, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • The Origin of Things, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
  • Artaroundtown," Malmo, Sweden.
  • Das Americas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Images Pour La Lutte Contre Le Sida, Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
  • Pohjoinen Valokuva 1994 (“Contemporary Living Violence”), International Photographic Triennial, Oulu, Finland.
  • Public Interventions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Translucent Writings, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; traveled to University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
1993
  • Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
  • New Images of the World, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
  • Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Camera Politic, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Spain; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Ante America, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Spain; traveled to Queens Museum, Queens, New York.
  • Betrayal of Means/Means of Betrayal, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, New York; traveled to Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Fontanelle, Potsdam Kunsthalle, Potsdam, Germany.
  • Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
  • Imagemakers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York.
  • Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany.
  • Magazin Im Magazin, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Bregenz, and Architectur Zentrum, Wien, Germany.
  • Personal Choice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico; Cultural Center, Caracas, Venezuela; Museum of Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil; National Museum of Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Museum of Art, Santiago, Chile.
1992
  • Skulpturen — Fragmente, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria.
  • Regard Multiple, Galeries Contemporaines, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
  • Pour la Suite du Monde, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
  • 1968, Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
  • Ameriques Latines: Art Contemporain, Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France.
  • Arte Amazonas. Museu de Arte Moderna, Museu de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany.
  • Encounters/Displacements, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
  • L’Art Renouvelle La Ville, Musee National des Monuments Francais, Paris, France.
  • Molteplici Culture, Convento San Egidio, Rome, Italy.
  • Proiezioni, Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy.
  • AnteAmerica, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; Yerbabuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica.
  • Betrayal of Means/Means of Betrayal, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida.
  • Galerie Lelong, New York, New York.
  • Green Acres: Neo-Colonialism in the U.S, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Washington.
  • Imaquinaciones: Dieciseis Miradas al 92," Expo 92, Seville, Spain.
  • Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Estacion Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain; traveled to Musee National d’art Moderne, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hotel des Arts, Fondation Nationale des arts, Paris, France; Museum Ludwig at Josef-Haubrich- Kunstahalle, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
  • Trans-Voices, Whitney Museum of American Art and diverse Subway stations, New York, New York.
  • Centre Georges Pompidou and diverse Metro stations, Paris, France.
1991
  • Heimat, Wewerka & Weiss Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
  • The Anonymous Other, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California.
  • Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  • Imaquinaciones: Deicisies Miradas al 92, Billboards, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • P/A, Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Repositioning Documentary, KunstRAI 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • La Revanche de l’Image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
1990
  • To Be And Not To Be, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Savoir-vivre, Savoir-faire, Savoir-Être, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
  • Re-Writing History, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England; traveled to Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England;
  • Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Scotland.
  • Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia.
  • On the Edge: Between Sculpture and Photography, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Affirmative Actions, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Assembled: Works of Art Using Photography as a Construction Element, University Art Galleries,
  • Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
  • Critical Realism, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.
  • Information, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California.
  • New Work: A New Generation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.
  • November, November, Anselm Dreher Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
  • Tierra Encantada, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Kansas.
1989
  • The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Magiciens de la Terre, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France and la Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France.
  • Images Critiques, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
  • Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Alfredo Jaar / Ronald Jones, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • First International Foto-Triennale, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany.
  • Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
  • Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
  • Camera Lucida, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada; exhibition traveled to Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  • A Climate of Site, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Effets de Miroir, C.A.C. Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonne.
  • Fictions, Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, Canada.
  • Hommage à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England.
  • The New Concept, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.
  • Not Photography, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
  • Painting/Object/Photograph, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Tenir l’Image a Distance, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
  • Vis-à-Vis der Kamera, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna; traveled to Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch.
  • Witness, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1988
  • Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information," Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
  • Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
  • Presi X Incantamento, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
  • Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, New York; traveled to Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, New York.
  • Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
  • Lo Permeable del Gesto," Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain.
  • Public Discourse, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.
  • Révélateurs, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Centre Saint Vincent, Herblay, France.
  • Temporary Public Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York.
1987
  • Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
  • 19e Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • American Policy, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Art and the Dialectic Process, Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
  • Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island State University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York.
1986
  • Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
  • Artfor(u)m, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, New York.
  • When Attitudes Become Forms, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, New York.
1985
  • 18e Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
  • Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, The Alternative Museum, New York, New York.
  • 4 Chilean Artists in the CAYC of Buenos Aires, CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Freedom Within, Staller Center Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.
  • Not Just Any Pretty Picture, P.S. 122, New York, New York.
1984
  • Art & Ideology, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  • Selections from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York.
  • Aqua: 22 Latin American Artists Living and Working in the United States, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Art of the Americas, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York.
  • Call and Response: Art on Central America, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
  • Chronicles," INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York.
  • L’Esprit Encyclopédique, New York Public Library, New York.
  • Philosophies on the Art Process, Makkom, Amsterdam.
  • Vision and Conscience, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York.
1983
  • Catchwords, Caidoz, New York.
  • Chile, Chile, Cayman Gallery, New York.
  • Contemporary Latin American Artists, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.
  • Hispanic Achievement in the Arts, Equitable Center, New York.
  • In/Out: Four Projects by Chilean Artists, Washington Project for Arts, Washington D.C.
  • Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York.
1982
  • Segundo Encuentro de Video, Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago.
  • 12e Paris Biennale, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
  • Contextos, Galeria Sur, Santiago, Chile.
1981
  • Segunda Bienal de Arte Universitario, Pontificia Universidad “Catlica de Chile,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
  • Grafica Chilena Contemporanea, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.
  • Primer Encuentro de Video, Instituto Chileno-Frances de Cultura, Santiago.
  • Quinta Bienal Internacional de Valpara¹so, Chile.
  • Séptima Exhibicion, Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.
1980
  • Centenario del Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.
  • Salon de Grafica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.
  • Segundo Encuentro de Arte Joven, Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago.
  • Sexta Exhibicion, Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.
1979
  • Primera Bienal de Arte Universitario, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago Quinta Exhibicion, Colocadora Nacional de Valores, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago.

PRIZES

2006
  • Premio Extremadura a la Creación, Espagne.
2000
  • MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fellowship
1985
  • New York State Council of the Arts Grant
1985
  • Guggenheim Fellowship

Alfredo Jaar

Contemporary

Installation, photography, video

Artist born in 1956 in Santiago, Chile. 

Localisation
New York, United States

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