Alfredo Jaar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alfredo Jaar

artist

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1956

Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Profession: photographer, architect, film director, visual artist

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York City.
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.