Lars Jan
Lars Jan is a visual artist, director, writer, and founder of Early Morning Opera, a genre-bending performance + art lab whose works explore emerging technologies, live audiences, and unclassifiable experience. Jan’s original works — including Holoscenes, The Institute of Memory (TIMe), and Abacus — have been presented by the Whitney Museum, Sundance Film Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art TBA Festival, ICA Boston, Toronto Nuit Blanche Festival, London’s Burning, and NYU Abu Dhabi. His climate change themed project Holoscenes created a sensation in Times Square in the summer of 2017.
Lars is the winner of the 3rd Audemars Piguet Art Commission and will exhibit Slow-Moving Luminaries, an immersive kinetic installation, on an acre of waterfront during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2017. His visual works have most recently been exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and Istanbul Modern, and are represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, where he will have a solo show in February 2018. Jan is a past MacDowell and Princeton Atelier Fellow, artistin-residence at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, and recipient of the …
Lars Jan is a visual artist, director, writer, and founder of Early Morning Opera, a genre-bending performance + art lab whose works explore emerging technologies, live audiences, and unclassifiable experience. Jan’s original works — including Holoscenes, The Institute of Memory (TIMe), and Abacus — have been presented by the Whitney Museum, Sundance Film Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art TBA Festival, ICA Boston, Toronto Nuit Blanche Festival, London’s Burning, and NYU Abu Dhabi. His climate change themed project Holoscenes created a sensation in Times Square in the summer of 2017.
Lars is the winner of the 3rd Audemars Piguet Art Commission and will exhibit Slow-Moving Luminaries, an immersive kinetic installation, on an acre of waterfront during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2017. His visual works have most recently been exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and Istanbul Modern, and are represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, where he will have a solo show in February 2018. Jan is a past MacDowell and Princeton Atelier Fellow, artistin-residence at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, and recipient of the Sherwood and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts100 Awards. He is the son of émigrés from Afghanistan and Poland, on faculty at CalArts, and a TED Senior Fellow.
Courtesy of Charlie James Gallery
