ALFREDO JAAR
Born
1956
Santiago, Chile
Education
1978 - 1990 Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago 1974 - 1981 Universidad de Chile, Santiago
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016
Napoli, Napoli, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy Galeria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy Amílcar, Frantz, Patrice and the Others, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa The Sound of Silence, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa Shadows, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
20152016
(Kindness) of (Strangers), Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2015
22 Women, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway Nous l’avons tant aimée, la revolution, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France Shadows, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Gold in the Morning, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil Culture = Capital / Capital Culture =, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 1, 2011, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Mon doux pays où êtes-vous, Diocesan Museum of Trento, Trento, Italy
2014
The war which is coming is not the first one, Great War 1914-2014, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy Estudios sobre la Felicidad, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina Muxima, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Shadows, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland The Sound of Silence, Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, KS The Sound of Silence, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile 22 Women, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
2013
Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Luci d’Artista, Torino, Italy The Politics of Images, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada The Sound of Silence, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2012
The Politics of Images, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada Gold in the Morning, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Alfredo Jaar Cultura = Capital, Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, Portugal Let there be light, Espace Culturel ING, Brussels, Belgium Fünf Wolken, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany The Way it is. An Aesthetics of Resistance, Berlinische Galerie, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e. V. and Alte Nationagalerie, Berlin, Germany Kultur = Kapital, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany 2011
Muxima, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL May 1, 2011, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA A Hundred Times Nguyen, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal The Sound of Silence, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Three Women, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France The Ashes of Pasolini, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium The Marx Lounge, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain The Marx Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands The Ashes of Pasolini, Contexts, Paris, France The Ashes of Pasolini, Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada We wish to inform you that we didn't know, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2010
La geometría de la conciencia, Santiago, Chile Park of the Laments, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN We wish to inform you that we didn't know, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT The Sound of Silence, Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
2009
The Sound of Silence, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Muxima, La Marrána, Montemarcello, Italy Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Politics of the Image, South London Gallery, London, England Gold in the Morning, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Is the wind you? (For Kurihara Sadako), Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan It Is Difficult, Spazio Oberdan and Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2007
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT La Politique des Images, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France Muxima, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Jaar SCL 2006, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefonica, and Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile Muxima, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland Muxima, Fundación Tapies, Barcelona, Spain Muxima, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Muxima, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Muxima, Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2005
Muxima, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
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Alfredo Jaar Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy Le Ceneri di Gramsci, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX Muxima, Grand Arts, Kansas City, KS 2004
Todo el Dolor del Mundo, Centro Portugues de Fotografía, Porto, Spain Das Rote Wien, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria Das Rote Wien, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
2003
El lamento de las imágenes, Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Six Seconds, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2002
Lament of the Images, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Emergencia, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2001
Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany The Silence: The Rwanda Project 1994-2000, International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
2000
It Is Difficult, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Six Seconds, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland New Works, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan Happiness, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden Emergencia, Waiting, Epilogue, BildMuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Waiting, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1999
Lament of the Images, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Lament of the Images, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1998
Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994-1998, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands Real Pictures, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
1997
The Rwanda Project, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Silence of Nduwayezu, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain The Silence of Nduwayezu, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany Let There Be Light, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
1996
The Rwanda Project, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC
1995
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
1994
Fotografiska Museet and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Tilman, Brussels, Belgium
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Alfredo Jaar Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany 1993
Miami Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL The Pergamon Project, Graphic Works, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (Un)framed, Tramway, Glasgow, Ireland Working, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992
1+1+1, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Two or Three Things I Imagine About Them, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England Two or Three Things I Imagine About Them, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Geography = War, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Galerie Frank + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1991
MVSEVM, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Geography = War, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; the Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Galeria Benet Costa, Barcelona, Spain Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1990
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; traveled to San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY London Regional and Historical Museums, London, Ontario, Canada Insam Gleicher Gallery, Chicago, IL Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
The Fire Next Time, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY The Fire Next Time, Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, CO The Fire Next Time, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Paysage, L’Arche de la Fraternité, La Défense, Paris, France Paysage, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Paysage, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, New York, NY Paysage, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1988
Public Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France Galleria Lidia Carrieri, Rome, Italy
1987
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL Frame of Mind, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY
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Alfredo Jaar
1986
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985
Installation Projects: 1980-1985, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions 2000-2015 20162017
Witness: Photography and the Human Condition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2016
Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International: Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haesmigger Collection of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina The Soul of Money, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic Afterwork, Para Site, Hong Kong Space to Dream, Recent Art from South America, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
20152016
Dark Mirror: Art from Latin America since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY IV Poly/ Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin American and the Caribbean, San Juan, Puerto Rico Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today, Museo - Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Streamlines: ozeane, welthandel und migration, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD Within/Without, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2015
Clamour Can Melt Gold, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong Messages from a New America, Mercosul Biennale 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Mobilization, 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia Braunschweig Lichtparcours, Braunschweig Kunstverein, Germany Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, Welcome Trust, London, England Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie, IN Beyond the Monument / Au-delà du monument, BAC Bâtiment d’Art Contemporarin, Geneva, Switzerland Rastros y Vestigios, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY United Nations Extended – The Vienna Dialog, freirum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna, Austria
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Alfredo Jaar Waterscapes, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Seoul, South Korea Com’è viva la città, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy 2014
Einblicke in die Sammlung Wemhöner, Wemhöner Foundation, Berlin, Germany For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People, Reginald F/ Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL How Far How Near. The World in the Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY In Plain Sight, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York, NY In the Aftermath of Trauma, Kemper Museum, St. Louis, MO Latin American Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH L’ange de l’histoire, Centre d’Art Contemporain Walter Benjamin, Perpignan, France Les désastres de la guerre, 1800-2014, Louvre-Lens, Lens, France Literary Devices, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, NY Manifesto! An Alternative History of Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, DE (Mis)Understanding Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Post Conflict, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY Realidades en Conflicto, Espacio ArtNexus, Bogotá, Colombia Re-framing History, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Red Pill, Galleria H, Taipei, Taiwan RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa The Militant Image, Urban Subjects with Camera Austria, Graz, Austria The Venice Syndrome – The Grandeur and the fall in the art of Venice, Gammel Holtegaard, Copenhagen, Denmark The war which is coming is not the first one, Great War 1914-2014, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Waterscapes, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2013
Americana, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL Accented Boundaries, Itinerant sends_for itinerant, Copenhagen, Denmark Aichi Triennale, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan La politique des images, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France The Sound of Silence, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland The Sound of Silence, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Culture = Capital, Marseille Capitale Européenne de la Culture, Marseille, France All You Need Is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Beam In Thine Own Eye, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia Being, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY Cleaning Up, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, NY Colección Helga de Alvear. The Art of the Present, Centro Cibeles de
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Alfredo Jaar Cultura y Ciudadanía, Madrid, Spain Economics in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland Être humain et le savoir ensemble: Sixth International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Melle, France FotoBienalMASP, Museo de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil In Between, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Belgium Junkies’ Promises, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Nasher XChange, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX Remembering is not enough, MAXXI, Rome, Italy Reproductibilitat 1.0, Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Spain Shapeshifting. My Friend. My Enemy. My Society, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Summer Exposure, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC The Collection as a Character, Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium This Is (Part of) America, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Transformed Visions, Tate Modern, London, England Venezia, Venezia, Pavilion of Chile, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2012
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Years, Sixty Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Pier Paolo Pasolini: Intellettuale, MoMA PS1, New York, NY Transformed Visions, Tate Modern, London, England Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Status – 24 Contemporary Documents, Fotomuseum Winterthur, DE This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany Intense Proximity, La Triennale de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Pasolini’s Language of Reality; Digesting a Polemical Life, Uniondocs, New York, NY The Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India Off And Free International Film and Experimental Art Festival, Korean Film Archive Theater, Seoul, South Korea Inventing World: The Artist as Citizen, Biennale Regard Bénin, Benin Bilderbedarf, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany Landslide: Impertinence – Resistance – Survival, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium A Generous Medium. Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium The Story Tellers, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Border Crossing, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush, Rivington Place, London, England Creative Destruction, The Kitchen, New York, NY Dancing Towards the Essence, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland La Idea De América Latina, El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo,
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Alfredo Jaar Seville, Spain Lux Perpetua, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France Half the Sky: Visualized, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France The Uncanny, Nusser & Baumgart, Munich, Germany Ashes and Gold: A Journey through different Worlds, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Mind the Gap, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY 2011
Being American, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY The Walls That Divide Us, apexart, New York, NY Il Belpaese Dell’arte, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy Seeing is Believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany The 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA Distant Star, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico PPP Pier Paolo Pasolini, Letizia Battaglia, Marlene Dumas, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Metis nl, Amsteram, the Netherlands Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Les choses de la vie, Gallery Steinek, Vienna, Austria Contemporary Art Archipelago, Archipelago Centre Korpoström, Finland Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Déjà, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec, Canada Private / Corporate VI, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Chile Años 70 y 80. Memoria y Experimentalidad, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile ARS 11, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Cinemas du Reel, Festival International de Films Documentaires, Paris, France Les Voies de la Révolte, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France Fotográfica Bogotá 2011, FotoMuseo, Bogotá, Colombia Figures of Dissent: Pier Paolo Pasolini, KASK cinema, Gent, Belgium Without Reality There is No Utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain Without Reality There is No Utopia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Dislocación: Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Eminates Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2010
29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil TV/ARTS/TV: The television shot; by artists, ARTS SANTA MÒNICA, Barcelona, Spain Viaggio in Italia. Sguardi Inernazionali Sull’Italia Contemporanea, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy Space, MAXXI, Rome, Italy The Flower of May, Biennale Hall, Guangju, South Korea Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art, The Kitchen, New
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Alfredo Jaar York, NY Rewind: 1970s to 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine, Santiago, Chile For the Use of Those Who See, KW Institute, Berlin, Germany All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal The Philosophy of Money, Lisbon City Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Hope, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain The Fifth Genre, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Ars Itineris, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain La Isla Absoluta, D21 Galería de Arte, Santiago, Chile Searching Songs, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan And the moral of the story is…, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Artefact Festival: On Gaps and Silent Documents, Kunstencentrum STUK, Leuven, the Netherlands The Crude and the Rare, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 2009
Después del Arte, Centro de Arte Contemporáneao Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba Paisajes Cruzados: Miradas a la Colección de Es Baluard, Es Baluard, Palma, Spain For You, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland Continual Rifts, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Aletheia, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland Voids: A Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangzhou, China The Fear Society, Pabellón de la Urgencia, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy En los márgenes del arte. Creación y compromiso politico, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain For the Use of Those Who See, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Welt-Bilder 3, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland When the Lightness of Poetry, Sculpture International Rotterdam, the Netherlands The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Proiezioni, Costello di Rivara - Centro d’art Contemporanea, Torino, Italy Deep Images, CREAM, International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan
2008
Cancelled, Erased & Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Risky Business Art, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne, Switzerland Aurum: L’or dans l’art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy That Was Then…This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Africa On: Beecroft, Jaar, Kentridge, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY New Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark
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Alfredo Jaar Pictures in Series, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY Framing and Being Unframed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2007
To Be Continued…,: Art Created for Magasin 3 Over Twenty Years, Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden AfterShock, Sainsbury Centre for the Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England Afterglow, Galerie Pfreim, Lacoste, France Check List: Luanda Pop, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Puntos de Vista, Zeitgenossisceh Kunst aus der Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Museum Bochum, Germany Sharjah Biennial 8—Still Life: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirtes The Power of Ten: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum’s 10th Anniversary, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Macro Future, Museo D’arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York—A Selection from 1980 to 2006, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Equatorial Rhythms, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Existencias, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain Private/Corporate IV: The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection in dialogue with the Daimler Chrysler Collection, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany System Error: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand Negatec, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina IBCA—International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2006
Confini—Boundaries, Museo d’Arte Provincia Nuoro, Nuoro, Sardinia Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS2), Seville, Spain Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, NY Into me/ Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Into me/ Out of me, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany Into me/ Out of me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Beautiful Suffering—Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Review - 25 Jahre Österreischische Ludwig Stiftung, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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Alfredo Jaar A Curator´s Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA En las fronteras, Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy La Visíon Impura, Fondos de la Colección Permanente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Gyroscope, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Festival Photo et Video de Biarritz, Biarritz, France Brighton Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Brighton, England Gardens, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; traveled through 2008 to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC FotoFest2006: Artists Responding to Violence, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX Conjonctions, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2005
Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany The Fluidity of Time—Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Nuove acquisizioni. Due anni di crescita della collezione MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Flight 405, Galerie Sfier-Semler, Hamburg, Germany The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Concerning War—Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality, BAK, Utrecht, the Netherlands Marking time: moving images, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Sight-Cruising, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan 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, NY Points of View: Landscape and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY 05 WEST Know Your Rights Festival, Leipzig, Germany Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York, NY Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain Fotografia! Arte 2005: Latin American Photography, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL Double Exposure, Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas, NV Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Emergencias, MUSAC Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain Veinte años y un día, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
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Alfredo Jaar
2004
Paisaje y Memoria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Canary Islands Wettbewerb Kunst und Bau, Universitätsspital Bern, Inselspital, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland En Guerra, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain Die Zehn Gebote (The Ten Commandments), Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany El Final del Eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile Portraits, Esso gallery, New York, NY Laocoonte Devorado—Arte y violencia política, Museo Artium, Vitoria, Brazil Exposicion Colectiva, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain Photography Video Mixed Media, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Art by MacArthur Fellows, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Some Things Happening, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, NY; traveled to Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, IL Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Potential Images of the World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Jaar+Nauman+Perejaume+Tápies, Galería Dos, Cadaqués, Spain
2003
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY El Final del Eclipse, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA upon reflection..., Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Tainted Landscapes, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Experience, Rotterdam Photo Biennale, Nederlands Foto Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen (The Desire of the Cartographer), Kunstverein Hannover, Germany Sanctuary: Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Ireland Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery of Australian National University, School of Art Gallery of Australian National University, and National Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia; Contemporary Art Space, and National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia Mad 03, Public Project, Madrid, Spain New Generation, Galería Dos, Cadaqués, 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; Dunkers Kulturhaus, Helsingborg, Sweden; Midlanda Konsthall, Sundsvall, Sweden; Konsthallen, Ronneby, Sweden
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Alfredo Jaar Documenta 11, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Conceptes de l’espai, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Tilflukt / Refuge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Aquaria, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; traveled to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany Rayuela/ Hopscoth: Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists, University Art Gallery, Scranton-Mahady Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C. Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany; New York, NY 2001
O Espiritu da Nossa Epoca, Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil Silent Stories, Gallery Steinek, Vienna, Austria New Work: Contemporary Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY Nauman Kruger Jaar, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland Voir Ne Pas Voir La Guerre, Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, Invalides, La Defense, Paris, France The Gift. Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Palazzo Delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy Minimalism Past And Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2000
The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Versiones del Sur: Más allá del Documento, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain The Space of Silence, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Flash Back, Barbara Farber / La Serre, Marseille, France Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Playgrounds and Toys, International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL L’Elemento Verbale Nell’Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy; traveled to Galleria Martano, Torino, Italy Frames of Reference: From Object to Subject, Ezra and Ceile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT FaceON, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England inSITE2000, Tijuana and San Diego border An Intelligent Pressure, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England SCULPTography, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY ‘A Spectre at the Feast’ recent works by: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Marcel Broodthaers, Claudio Parmiggiani, Maris, Alfredo Jaar, Derek Tyman, Real Gallery & Nolan/Eckmann Gallery, New York, NY
Awards 2000 1985
MacArthur Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship
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