{"id":2117,"date":"2020-07-30T23:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoa169.com\/?post_type=stoa&#038;p=2117"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:51:44","slug":"alfredo-jaar","status":"publish","type":"stoa","link":"https:\/\/stoa169.com\/en\/stoa\/alfredo-jaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Jaar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>* 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile<br\/>lives in New York<\/p>\n\n<p>Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He is known\u00a0as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today.<br\/><br\/>His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of\u00a0Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta in Kassel\u00a0(1987, 2002).<br\/><br\/>Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Mus\u00e9e 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\u2019Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK(2017).<br\/><br\/>The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty\u00a0monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in\u00a01985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018.<br\/><br\/>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 S\u00e3o Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; 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.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredojaar.net\/\">www.alfredojaar.ne<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredojaar.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"t (&#xF6;ffnet in neuem Tab)\">t\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Alfredo Jaar <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chilelives in New York Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. 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