Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon. His work has been exhibited worldwide. He has participated in the Venice Biennale (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2026), the São Paulo Biennial (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021), and documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).

His most important solo exhibitions include those at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Whitechapel, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.

Major retrospectives of his work have recently been held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin; the Berlinische Galerie; Rencontres d’Arles; KIASMA, Helsinki; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery; and the Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza.

The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions worldwide, and his works have been shown at several Berliner Herbstsalons at the Maxim Gorki Theater. More than eighty monographs have been published on his work. Among other honors, he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He has also received numerous awards, most recently the 11th Prix Pictet.