Alfredo Jaar Biography

Alfredo Jaar was born in 1956 in Santiago, Chile. He attended Santiago's Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura (1979) and Santiago's Universidad de Chile (1980). (1981). Jaar investigates the public's desensitization to pictures and the limits of art to portray catastrophes like genocides, epidemics, and famines through installations, photos, videos, and community-based initiatives. Military conflicts, political corruption, and power disparities between industrialized and developing countries are all shown in Jaar's art. His work covers topics such as the Rwandan genocide, gold mining in Brazil, toxic waste in Nigeria, and border concerns between Mexico and the United States. Many of Jaar's works are long meditations or elegies, such as Muxima (2006), a video that depicts and contrasts Angola's oil economy and extreme poverty, and The Gramsci Trilogy (200405), a series of installations dedicated to the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was imprisoned during Mussolini's Fascist regime. Jaar has won a number of honors, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2000), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1987), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1987). His work has been included in major exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2005), Museo Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2005), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1999), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999). (1992). Jaar left Chile in 1981, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. His show at Fundacion Telefonica in Santiago, Chile, in 2006 was his first in his homeland in twenty-five years.

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