Lars Jan (b. 1978 Cambridge, MA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from CalArts, where he is on faculty as head of directing. The son of émigrés from Afghanistan and Poland, he synthesizes eclectic materials to incite thought about issues such as surveillance, national borders, housing scarcity, screen-based propaganda, and climate change.
Jan is the winner of the third Audemars Piguet Art Commission and his work has been shown at The Whitney Museum, Hammer Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, ICA Boston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Wexner Center, Sundance Film Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, 21c Museum Hotels, Istanbul Modern, London’s Burning Festival, Sydney Festival, Athen’s Niarchos Cultural Center, and Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, among others. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, UCross, and the Princeton Atelier, and has spoken at both Performa and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His work has been covered extensively, appearing in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Modern Painters, BOMB Magazine, Art Forum, Artsy, The Art Newspaper, ArtPulse, The Times of London, The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, USA Today, Architectural Digest, Vice, LA Magazine, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.
He is a TED Senior Fellow, Sundance Art of Practice Fellow (2021), Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Advisor (2020, 2019, Creative Capital Awardee (2021) and USA Artists Fellow (2022).
Jan is the winner of the third Audemars Piguet Art Commission and his work has been shown at The Whitney Museum, Hammer Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, ICA Boston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Wexner Center, Sundance Film Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, 21c Museum Hotels, Istanbul Modern, London’s Burning Festival, Sydney Festival, Athen’s Niarchos Cultural Center, and Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, among others. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, UCross, and the Princeton Atelier, and has spoken at both Performa and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His work has been covered extensively, appearing in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Modern Painters, BOMB Magazine, Art Forum, Artsy, The Art Newspaper, ArtPulse, The Times of London, The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, USA Today, Architectural Digest, Vice, LA Magazine, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.
He is a TED Senior Fellow, Sundance Art of Practice Fellow (2021), Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Advisor (2020, 2019, Creative Capital Awardee (2021) and USA Artists Fellow (2022).
This portfolio focuses on fine art, installation, and photographic projects.
