The son of émigrés from Afghanistan and Poland, Lars Jan is a director and multidisciplinary artist known for visually striking, genre-bending works integrating emerging technologies and exploring issues such as surveillance, national borders, housing scarcity, screen-based persuasion, and climate change. 

Jan’s original works — including Holoscenes, Joan Didion’s The White Album, The Institute of Memory (TIMe), and Abacus — have been presented by BAM Next Wave Festival, Whitney Museum, Sundance Film Festival, The Under the Radar Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, CAP UCLA, PICA’s TBA Festival, REDCAT, ICA Boston, YBCA, Wexner Center, Toronto Nuit Blanche, London’s Burning Festival, Krakow’s Divine Comedy Festival, NYU Abu Dhabi, Istanbul Modern, Sydney Festival, Athen’s Niarchos Cultural Center, and Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques.

He is the winner of the Audemars Piguet Art Commission, TED Senior Fellow, Sundance Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee, and USA Artists Fellow. He received his MFA from CalArts, where he is Head of Directing in the School of Theater.