(b. 1946, Vancouver, British Columbia. Lives and works in Vancouver.)
Jeff Wall studied art history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and at the Courtauld Institute, London. His work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions, including a touring solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, in 2007. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including The Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography (2001); Ontario Arts Council, Canada; Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2002); and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize for the Visual Arts (2003).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2012
Jeff Wall: In light, black, colour, white, and dark, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011
Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Curated by Jeff Wall: Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path” The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Jeff Wall, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
2010
Jeff Wall, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Jeff Wall. Transit,SKD – Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
2008
Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2007
Jeff Wall: Exposure, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Jeff Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York / The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois / San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
2005
Jeff Wall, Photographs 1978-2004," Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel; Tate Modern, London, England
2004
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2011
You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Photography is Calling, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Streetlife und Homestories - Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2010
101 Collection: Route 1 – R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
Doppeleffekt, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
Silent Revolution – A new presentation of the permanent collection, K20K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Esposizione Universale – l'arte alla prova del tempo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
2007
On History, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid, Spain
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2006
Super Vision, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
The 1980's Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal