His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the
Biennales of
Venice (1986, 2007),
São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021),
Istanbul (1995),
Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), Seville (2006), the Whitney Biennial (2022), and
Every Sound Is a Shape of Time,
Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024). His work,
Park of the Laments was part of the
Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park which opened in 2010 at the
Indianapolis Museum of Art. For the "Revolution vs Revolution" exhibition held at the
Beirut Art Center, he produced a new version of his photographic project
1968. Important individual exhibitions include the
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992);
Whitechapel Gallery, London (1992);
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992);
Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994);
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2005); Fundación Telefónica, Santiago (2006); Musée des Beaux Arts,
Lausanne (2007); the
South London Gallery in 2008.; and
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield UK (2018). Jaar represented Chile at the 2013
Venice Biennale. One of his two solo exhibitions was shown in Hong Kong as part of the "Hong Kong's Migrant Domestic Workers Project" at Para Site in the exhibition "Afterwork." Hundreds of thousands of
Vietnamese boat people sought refuge in British Hong Kong after the Vietnam War ended in the late 1970s and continued until the early 1990s. In 2022, Jaar presented a major video installation titled
06.01.2020 at the
Whitney Biennial, New York, commenting on the
Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 in Washington DC. His work can found in the permanent collections of art museums around the
Americas,
Europe, and
Asia, such as the
Pérez Art Museum Miami,
Centre Georges Pompidou, and the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. == Awards ==