
ALFREDO JAAR
1956, Saniago, Chile - Lives and works in New York
F / B / S / V / INSTV
| WORK BY JAAR | ||
| Katale Refugee Camp (black box with text - image inside) | Rwanda Project | 1996 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES AND ARTISTS' BOOKS | ||
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| A Hundred Times Nguyen | Moderna Museet, Stockholm | 1994 |
| Alfredo Jaar | LaJolla MoCA | 1990 |
| Alfredo Jaar: Geography = War | Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | 1991 |
| ? es usted felez? | ACTAR / Alfredo Jaar | 1999 |
| Europa | Institut fur Auslandsbezienhungen, Stuttgart | 1994 |
| Lament of the Images | List Visual Arts Center, MIT | 1999 |
| Let There Be Light / It is difficult: Ten Years | ACTAR / Alfredo Jaar | 1998 |
| The Aesthetics of Resistance - Gramsci | Fondazione Antonio Ratti Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Como, Italy | 2005 |
| Two or Three Things I Imagine About Them | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | 1992 |
| Weltanschauung (Do all oceans have walls? / Welcome to the Real World) | Kunstlerhaus, Bremen | 1998 |
| BIENNIAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUES | ||
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| Gold in the Morning | Venice Biennale | 1986 |
| Learning to Play | Sao Paulo International Biennial | 1987 |
| 1+1+1 | Documenta 8 | 1987 |
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT JAAR | ||
| Alfredo Jaar - The Fire This TIme: Public Interventions 1979-2005 | Charta | 2005 |
| EPHEMERA | ||
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| Alfredo Jaar Installation Projects 1980-1985 [announcement card] | Grey Art Gallery, New York University | 1985 |
| Alfredo Jaar Learing to Play Installation [announcement card] | 19th Sao Paulo International Biennial | 1987 |
| Alfredo Jaar Oro il Mattino [announcement card] | La Biennale di Venezia | 1986 |
| A Logo for America [announcement card and press release] | Public Art Fund, Times Square Spectacolor Lightboard | 1987 |
| Coyote [poster] | Photographic Resource Center, Boston University | 1988 |
| Investigations [announcement card] | Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania | 1988 |
| Lament for the Images [three fold text brochure] | Documenta II, Kassel | 2002 |
| 1 + 1 + 1 [large announcement card with image] | Documenta 8, Kassel | 1987 |
| 1 + 1 + 1 [invitation for talk by Jaar] | Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida | 1987 |
| 1 + 1 + 1 [folded Peters Projection map and text] | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1992 |
| Rushes Installation [large announcement card with image] | Spring Street Subway Station, New York | 1986 |
| Sheer Conviction [small brochure] | Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse | 1989 |
| The Fire Next Time [both the invitation card and poster with text] | The Brooklyn Museum | 1989 |
| Welcome to the New World (Happy New Year from Alfredo Jaar) [ full size Peters Projection map in envelope] | self | 1988 |
| Welcome to the (Third) World Installation [announcement card] | Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art | 1986 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING JAAR | ||
| Alfredo Jaar / Ronald Jones | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall | 1989 |
| Ante America / Regarding America | Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogota | 1992 |
| Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 19960-2000 | el Museo del Barrio, New York | 2008 |
| ARS 95: Private/Public [Curator: Maria Hirvi] | Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki | 1995 |
| Art and Ideology | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1984 |
| Art and the Dialectic Process [catalogue brochure] | Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania | 1987 |
| Billboard Art on the Road | MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | 1999 |
| Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | 1996 |
| Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1988 |
| Disinforamtion: The Manufacture of Consent | The Alternative Museum, New York | 1985 |
| Documenta 8 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel | 1987 |
| Documenta 11 | Kassel, Germany | 2002 |
| Encounters / Displacements: Luis Camnitzer, Alfredo Jaar, Cildo Meireles | U. of Texas at Austin | 1992 |
| Experience, the media rate race - Foto Biennale Rotterdam V | Netherlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam | 2003 |
| Garden of the Forking Path | Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen | 1998 |
| Green Acres: Neo-Colonialism in the U.S. | Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis | 1992 |
| Intervenciones | Pabellon de Andalucia | 1992 |
| Islands: Contemporary Installations | National Museum of Australia | 1996 |
| Istanbul Biennial # 4 | Istanbul | 1995 |
| Klima Global: Arte Amazonas | Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin | 1992 |
| Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1993 |
| Magiciens de la Terre | Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou | 1989 |
| Nauman / Kruger / Jaar | Daros, Zurich | 2001 |
| Perverted by Language | Hillword Art Gallery, New York | 1987 |
| Rayuela / Hopscotch: Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists | University Art Gallery, University of Scranton / Mahady Gallery, Marywood University | 2002 |
| Reagan: American Icon | Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | 1989 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s | The New Museum of Contemporary Art / The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,, New York | 1990 |
| The Edge of Awareness | World Health Organization | 1998 |
| The Photography of Invention: American Pictures on the 1980s | National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution | 1989 |
| Vision and Concience [along with Cagan / Frigerio / Steir] | University Art Gallery, Binghamton, New York | 1984 |
| EXHIBITION CURATED BY JAAR | ||
| Inferno and Paradiso | Bild Musett, Umea, Sweden | 1999 |
| BOOKS INCLUDING JAAR | ||
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary art criticism from Latin America | MIT Press | 1996 |
| Conceptuallism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America [Lucy Lippard] | Pantheon Books | 1990 |
| Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture | The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press | 2004 |
| The Bodies That Were Not Ours and other writings [Coco Fusco] | Routledge | 2001 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING JAAR | ||
| Art and Design: New Art from Latin America [Making Visible: Difference and Representation in the Work of Alfredo Jaar] | Art and Design | 1994 |
| Art in America [The Whole Earth Show part 2 by Eleanor Heartney ["Magicines de la Terre"] | July | 1989 |
| Art in America [The Peripatetic Artist: 14 Statements] | July | 1989 |
| Art Journal [Temporality and Public Art [Patricia Phillips] | Winter | 1989 |
| Art Journal [Artists' Pages] | Summer | 1992 |
| Art Journal [Recapturing History: The (Un)official Story in Contemporary Latin American Art] | Winter | 1992 |
| Art Nexus Vol.18 [Alfredo Jaar (Rwanda) by Monica Amor] | October-December | 1995 |
| Art Nexus Vol.27 [The VI International Forum on the Theory of Contemporary Art in Guadalajara / The Second Johannesburg Biennial] | January-March | 1998 |
| Art Nexus Vol.39 [inSITE 2000] | February-April | 2001 |
| Art Nexus #41 [Beyond the Document] | August-October | 2001 |
| Flash Art [Magiciens de la Terre] | October | 1989 |
| New Observations #62 [On Bi-Culturalism - a work by Jaar] | New Observations Ltd. | 1988 |
| Poliester, Vol.4 #11 | Winter | 1995 |
| Third Text # 24 | Third Text, Autumn | 1993 |
| Trans> arts.cultures.media # 3/4 | Passim, Inc. | 1997 |
| Upfront # 10 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1985 |
| Upfront # 12/13 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1986/7 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Alfredo Jaar at Lelong Gallery, New York | Art Nexus Vol.30, November-January | 1999 |