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2012 Lightbox with black and white transparency Work: 152 x 152 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Milan, 1946: Lucio Fontana visits his studio on his return from Argentina

2013 Lightbox with black and white transparency, Work: 244 x 244 x 18 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Self Portrait

1977 Nine pigment prints Work: 152.4 x 152.4 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Six Seconds

2000 Lightbox with colour transparency Work: 91 x 61 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Sound of Silence

2006 Wood structure, metal, fluorescent tubes, LED lights,video projection, flash lights, and tripods Work: 400 x 400 x 800 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Searching for Spain

2012 Lightbox with color transparency Work: 91 x 60 cm

Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness

1995 Neon Work: 61 x 111.8 cm

Gold in the Morning B

1985 Lightbox with color transparency Work: 102 x 153 x 15 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Gold in the Morning C

1985 Lightbox with color transparency Work: 122 x 183 x 15 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

2016 Neon Work: 50 x 50 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Be Afraid of the Enormity of the Possible

2015 Neon Work: 120 x 182 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Culture=Capital

2011 Neon Work: 15 x 183 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Embrace

1995 Single-channel colour video projection Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

Men Who Cannot Cry (A)

2018 Pigment print + neon Image: 127 x 187 cm Neon: 127 x 127 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Sound of Silence

2006 15 Pigment prints, framed Each: 53.3 x 78.7 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

This is What Happened, Miss Simone ( Installation with posters)

2015 Installation - comprising Pigment print mounted on dibond + posters Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Silence of Nduwayezu

1997 One million slides, light table, magnifiers, illuminated wall text Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

My Hands

1977 Pigment Print Work: 50.8 x 50.8 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Things Fall Apart

2009 Pigment Print Work: 43 x 229 cm

A Logo for America

1987/2014 Three pigment prints Each: 55.9 x 61 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Man

2016 Pigment print Work: 43 x 165 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956, Santiago, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who considers social injustices and human suffering through thought-provoking installations. Throughout his career Jaar has used different mediums to create compelling work that examines the way we engage with, and represent humanitarian crises. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today.

Through photography, film and installation he provokes the viewer to question our thought process around how we view the world around us. Jaar has explored significant political and social issues throughout his career, including genocide, the displacement of refugees across borders, and the balance of power between the first and third world.

Jaar’s work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).

Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994);The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005) and The Nederlands Fotomuseum (2019). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014); and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017).

The artist has realised more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He was awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018, and has recently received the prestigious Hasselblad award for 2020.

His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.

The artist lives and works in New York, USA.

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Soul Makossa

May 2020

Exhibitions

Miami Seasonal Gallery

06 March - 23 April 2023

Fathom | RHE Water Show | March 2021

25 March - 30 May 2021

South South | Everything fits to our daily needs

23 January - 06 March 2021

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News

Alfredo Jaar | LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography

Posted 14 July 2022

Alfredo Jaar | Whitney Biennial 2022 | Quiet As It's Kept

Posted 31 March 2022

Alfredo Jaar | Hasselblad Award | Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden

Posted 29 September 2021

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ARTnews: Letter from Cape Town

Apollo: Photo Realist

The Economist: Opening the Black Box: An unorthodox artist finds enduring meaning in the news

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