Alfredo Jaar
Artist, Visual Artist
1956 –
Who is Alfredo Jaar?
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. From age 5 to 16, he lived in Martinique before moving back to Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border. He has been featured on Art:21.
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1956
Santiago - Also known as
- Αλφρέντο Τζαρ
- Children
- Nationality
- Chile
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chile
Architecture
( - 1981) - Filmmaking
( - 1979)
- University of Chile
- Lived in
- Santiago
- New York City
(1982 - )
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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