Alvar Haro was born in Paris in 1964 and has lived in Madrid since 1967. He studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and, above all, was taught about art and life by his father, the sculptor Juan Haro, with whom he shared a studio and a deep friendship. 
On a trip to East Berlin, where his family from the Republican exile still lives, he becomes aware for the first time of the importance for him of the theme of the dissolution of memory, which he will develop intensely years later.