JR
JR exhibits freely on the streets of the world, where he pastes huge portraits of anonymous people. Concealing his own identity and that of his subjects, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the artwork and the passer-by.
In 2011 JR received the TED Prize, after which he created Inside Out, an international participatory art project that invites people worldwide to paste their own picture – as of June 2020, over 420,000 people from more than 140 countries have participated in this project. His recent work includes a large-scale pasting in a maximum security prison in California, an Oscar®-nominated feature documentary co-directed with French New Wave legend Agnès Varda, giant scaffolding installations at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and an enormous installation at the US-Mexico border fence. JR was also named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2018.
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