Biography

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker. His work as been exhibited worldwide including the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Sydney (1990), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002). More than fifty monographs have been published about his work including It Is Difficult (2008), La Politique des Images (2006), The Fire This Time (2005), and Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994-1998 (1998). He recently completed two important public commissions: The Park of the Laments (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and The Geometry of Conscience (near the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile). He is completing a third memorial in Kigali, Rwanda in memory of the 1994 genocide victims. He is preparing a multi-venue retrospective in Berlin for 2012. He lives in New York.