Arthur Jafa — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

Black Man, 2025

UV Print on raw aluminum

Townshend, 2025

Video

Untitled_Grid, Sprüth Magers, 2024

63 archival inkjet prints and metal frames

Untitled, 2024

Metal rails, anodized pipes, painted pipes, plastic pipes, tarp, bike frames, motorcycle frame, mylar foil

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$6.0K – $175K

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$79.9K

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$69.5K

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May 2025 · $101K

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Photographs: $69.5K medianSculpture/objects: $25.4K medianPaintings: $37.5K medianUnclassified lots: $44.8K median

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Galleries2

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Prizes & Awards3

Art Basel Award

Winner 2026

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

Shortlisted 2023

Golden Lion

Winner 2019

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Podcast Interviews3

podcasts Arthur Jafa's Radical Theory of Readymade Art The Art Angle · May 28, 2026

Arthur Jafa is probably the most revered artist of the last decade. Born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, he came up through the world of cinema. But Jafa also found his way into the art world with his difficult video wo…

podcasts Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa A brush with... · Aug 21, 2024

An in-depth interview with the filmmaker and sculptor, discussing his eye for systemic and historic inequity, and how Anne Imhof and Mahalia Jackson have influenced his practice

podcasts Seeing the Unseen: Arthur Jafa, Jennifer Packer & Hans Ulrich Obrist CHANEL Connects · Jan 14, 2021

Artist Arthur Jafa, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, connects with painter - and winner of the 2020 Rome Prize - Jennifer Packer. The conversation was led by Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and Artistic…

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Biennial Selections2

Venice Biennale — Venice

2026 · In Minor Keys · curated by Koyo Kouoh

Venice Biennale — Venice

2024 · Foreigners Everywhere · curated by Adriano Pedrosa

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Publications6

Exhibition Catalog 3

Dance with Daemons, the catalogue of the Fondation Beyeler's summer exhibition

Hatje Cantz · 2025

Post Human

Phaidon Press · 2024

Arthur Jafa Author

MoMA Publications · 2021

Group Catalog 1

Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection

Phaidon Press · 2024

Survey 2

Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art

Phaidon Press · 2025

The American Art Book

Phaidon Press

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Recent News20

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Arthur Jafa’s Radical Theory of Readymade Art

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Dec 12, 2018 — Mar 24, 2019

Arthur Jafa / MATRIX 272 December 12, 2018–March 24, 2019 A gallery exhibition and complementary screenings of videos by Arthur Jafa, whose work expands the ...

Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Arthur Jafa

25 Harbor Shore Dr, Boston, MA 02210, USA

Jan 1, 2018

Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death Jun 27 – Sep 30, 2018 Artist, cinematographer, and filmmaker Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi...

Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

Pérez Art Museum Miami

Arthur Jafa

1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132, USA

Jan 1, 2018 — Apr 21, 2019

Aug. 30, 2018 – April 21, 2019 Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

Love is the Message, The Message is Death by Arthur Jafa (2016)

Barnes Foundation

Arthur Jafa

2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA

Jan 1, 2016

Love is the Message, The Message is Death by Arthur Jafa (2016) Single-channel digital video, color, sound; 7:25 min. © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist a...