Alfredo Jaar
B. 1956 Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in New York, NY
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York, where he has established an international reputation. He is known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2013), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Istanbul (1995), Kwangj (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006). His work has appeared regularly in exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, among many others.
"I could say that most of my works are haikus in the sense that I am interested in the economy of means, how you can create an explosion of meanings with so little. I believe in the power of the single idea." - Alfredo Jaar