Jeff Wall

Biography

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Education

1970 – 1973

Postgraduate research, Courtauld Institute, University of London, England

1970

Master of Arts, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1968

Bachelor of Arts, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Teaching

1987

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1976 – 1987

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

1974

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

Awards

2003

Roswitha Haftmann Prize for the Visual Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

2002

Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Gotteborg, Sweden

2001

The Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography, Ontario Arts Council, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Lewis Baltz & Jeff Wall, Painters of Modern Life, Zander Galerie Cologne, Germany

Jeff Wall, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

2023

Jeff Wall: A Sudden Gust of Wind, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, California, USA

2022

MEN. Prima Expoziție Jeff Wall, in România, MARe Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, Romania

Jeff Wall, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), St. James’s, London, UK

2019

Jeff Wall, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), St. James’s, London, UK

Jeff Wall, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece

2018

Jeff Wall, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Jeff Wall: Appearance, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2016

Jeff Wall, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA

2015

Jeff Wall, White Cube, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Project Gallery: Jeff Wall, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA

Jeff Wall, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2014

Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs, 1996 – 2013, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013

Jeff Wall: Visibility, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Jeff Wall: Photographs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2012

Jeff Wall Photographs, NGV Australia & The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Jeff Wall: In Light, Black, Colour, White, and Dark, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

2011

Jeff Wall, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), St. James’s, London, UK

Prose for Jeff Wall, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

2010

Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

2009

Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

2008

Jeff Wall Vancouver Art Gallery Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2007

Jeff Wall, White Cube, London, UK

Jeff Wall: Works in Focus 1978-2004, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

2005

Jeff Wall, Photographs 1978-2004, Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel; Tate Modern, London, England

2004

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

2003

Jeff Wall: Landscapes, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, England

Jeff Wall, Photographs, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation,Vienna, Austria

2001

Jeff Wall: Figures & Places, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

1999

Jeff Wall: Oeuvres 1990 -1998, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec

1998

Jeff Wall: Photographs of Modern Life, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

1996

Jeff Wall: Landscapes, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

1994

Jeff Wall, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

ERZEUGTE REALITÄTEN I – Jeff Wall. Dead Troops Talk, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Galerie, Berlin, Germany

1993

Jeff Wall, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

The Childrens’ Pavilion (a collaborative project with Dan Graham), Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherland

1991

Jeff Wall, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA

1990

Jeff Wall, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

1989

Dan Graham, Jeff Wall: The Children’s Pavilion, Marian Goodmann Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1988

Jeff Wall, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France; Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

1987

Young Workers, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

1984

Jeff Wall: Transparencies, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1983

The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025

Unknown City Beneath the Mist: New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

2024

ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany

Woher Kommst Du?: Wie Kunst In Die Sammlung Gelangt, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

2023-2024

Inner Worlds: Sigmund Freud And Art, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

Capturing The Moment, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, UK

Kafka: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

Collection presentation, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands

2023

Auditions for an Unwritten Opera, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-baden, Germany

Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway

Impossible, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany

2022

Detente, instante: Una historia de la fotografía ,Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain

Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA

Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria

Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale, International Center of Photography (ICP), Lower East Side, New York, USA

2021

Essentials, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise, Museum Franz Gertsch ,Burgdorf, Switzerland

2020

ONLINE: Rear Window, White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street), London, UK

Staging Silence, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Continuously Contemporary. New Works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart, Basel, Switzerland

The Memory of Images, Haus Lange & Haus Esters Museum, Krefeld, Germany

2019

This Place, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Now Is the Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Fiction and Fabrication, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal

2018

Pedro Costa: Company, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

The Flâneur: from Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia

Memory Palace, White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street), London, UK

Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, White Cube, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

A Handful of Dust. From the Cosmic to the Domestic, California Museum of Photography, UCR, Riverside, California, USA

This Place, Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA

This Place, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

This Place, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA

2017

America! America! How real is real? Museum Frieder Burda ,Baden-baden, Germany

Total Records. Vinyl & photography, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain

Aging Pride, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Diorama. Inventing illusion, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

In Relation to a Spectator, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

ReView: De Pont at 25: Anniversary exhibition, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands

Picture Industry, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson, New York, USA

Dioramas, Palais de Tokyo ,16e, Paris, France

HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION: Help Me Hurt Me. Between Care and Cruelty, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

The Power of the Avant-Garde, NMK, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland

Dean West: Best of West, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art,St. Petersburg, Russia

2016

Créer à rebours vers l’exposition: The case of Aurora Borealis, VOX, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Viehof Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington D.C., District of Columbia, USA

Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA

A Handful of Dust, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, New York, USA

STAGED – Spectacle and Role Playing in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Munchen, Germany

Open spaces | secret places, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

Counterpoints Photography: Through the Lens of Toronto Collections, Art Museum, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

An Imagined Museum: Works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, MMK, This Place, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2015

A Handful of Dust, Le Bal ,17e, Paris, France

This Place: Israel Through Photography’s Lens, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Future Present, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

This Place, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Love Story: Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Beneath the Ground: From Kafka to Kippenberger, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013

Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, MCA, Museum of Macba Collection – Group Exhibition, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Continental Drift – Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA

The Feverish Library (continued), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, German

2012

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Lost Places: Places of Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA

Affective Turns?, Pepin Moore ,Los Angeles, California, USA

2011

Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Structure & Absence, White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street), London, UK

Han Nefkens: 10 Years of Patronage, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Theatergarten Bestiarium, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Collection Platform 1: Circulation, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

2010

Positionings: The Question of Space in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

The Lucid Evidence, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Analysis of Flight Data: Art of the 80s – A Dusseldorf Perspective, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

Projections Series: Music Video, MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Intensif Station: 26 Artists’ Rooms in K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary

Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA

2009

Interstices, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Bad Habits, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA

SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

Held Together with Water, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

2006

Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Click Double Click – Das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany

2005

Jenseits der Arkadien, Pinakothek, der Moderne, Munich, Germany

2004

Die Neue Kunsthalle III, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Die Neue Kunsthalle IV, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Art and Utopia, Action Restricted, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Spain

2003 – 2004

BERLIN-MOSKAU, MOSKAU-BERLIN 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA

2003

Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2002

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

Open City: Aspects of Street Photography 1950—2000, The Lowry, Salford Quays, England; Muuseo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptural Garden, Washington, D.C. USA

Startkapital (from the Ackermans Collection), K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2001

Jeff Wall: Figures & Places, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt,

2000

Inner Eye, Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

Mixing Memory and Desire Wunsch und Erinnerung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

Art at Work: Forty Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA

1998 – 2000

Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Strauss Collection, The Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA

1999

Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Jeff Wall-Pepe Espaliü: Suspended Time, Castellon Contemporary Arts Centre (EAC), Castellón, Spain

Horizontabscheitunj, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

The Time of Our Lives, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Gesammelte Werkel: Zeitgenössiche Kunst seit 1968, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Flashes: Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Centro Cultural de Belem, Belem, Portugal

From Beuys to Cindy Sherman: The Lothar Schirmer Collection, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

August Sander: Landschafts-photographien/Jeff Wall: Bilder von Landschaften, Die Photografische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas

1998

Auf der Spur, Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

24th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

The Parkett Artists’ Editions, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

The Art of the 80s, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Tuning Up #5: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Extenuating Circumstances, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1997

Documenta 10, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Veronica’s Revenge (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

La Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

Deslocaçõs/From Here to There, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Bruit Secret, Association for Contemporary Arts/l’Albergueria, Vic, Spain

Die Epoche der Moderne: Kunst in 20 Jahrhundert/The Age of Moderism: Art in the 20th Century, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Künste in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Soweit der Erdkreis Reicht/Ein Museum für Keitgenössiche Kunst, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany

Contemporary Photography I: Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

1996

Hall of Mirrors: Art & Film Since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mathew Barney, Tony Oursler, Jeff Wall, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

Arrêt sur Images, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg

Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Consommation/Contemplation, La Carré Musee Bonnat & The FRAC Collection, Aquitane, Bayonne, France

1995

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

Spirits on the Crossing, Travellers to/from Nowhere: Contemporary Art in Canada

1980-94, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Micromegas, The American Center, Paris, France; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Limmagine riflessa: a selection of contemporary photography from the LAC Collection, Switzerland

About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Projections: Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, Brassaï, Weegee, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall,The Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea L’Effet Cinéma, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France

fémininmasculin: le sexe de l’art, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

4X1 im Albertinum: Golub, Huber, Julius, Wall, Gemüldegalerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany

Passions Privées: Collections particulières d’art moderne et contemporain en France, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1994 – 1995

Foundation Cartier: A Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

1994

Prospect/Retrospect: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

The Ghost in the Machine, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works form the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

The Century of the Multiple: from Duchamp to the Present, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Ik + de Ander: dignity for all: reflections on humanity, The Artimo Foundation, The Netherlands

Los Generos de la Pintura, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, Madrid, Spain

1993

Beneath the Paving Stones: Art, Architecture, City, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Widerstand: Denkbilder für die Zukunft, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung, Munich, Germany

Strange Hotel: International Art, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Photoplay, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA

The Sublime Void: An Exhibition on the Memory of the Imagination, Palais Royale des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

Binera: 14 Interaktionen – Kunst und Technologie, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Canada: Une nouvelle generation, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Clisson, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France

1992

The Binary Era, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Pour la suite du monde, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Avantgarde & Kampagne, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

Territorium Artis, Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

What is Political Art Anyway?, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden

Cameres indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

1991

in anderen Rüumen, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Assessorato alla Cultura, Molteplici Culture: Itinerari dell’arte contemporanea in unmondo che cambia, Commune di Roma, Rome, Italy

1990

La Diaphane, Musee des Beaux Arts/Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas de Calais, Tourcoing, France

Weitersehen, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany

Life Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Passages de l’image,Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

The First Tyne International: A New Necessity, National Garden Festival, Gateshead, Newcastle, England

Le Territoire de l’Art 1910-1990, Musée Russe, St. Petersburg, Russia

1989

Foto-Kunst, Staastgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Tenir l’Image à Distance, Musée d’Art Comtemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

What is Contemporary Art?, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden

Les Magiciens de la Terre, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou /La Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

Une autre objectivité/Another Objectivity,Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Images Critiques: J. Wall, D. Adams, A. Jaar, L. Jammes,ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

The Children’s Pavilion(a collaborative project with Dan Graham), Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, France; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône Alpes, Villa Gillet, Lyons, France; Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Theatergarden Bestiarium, P.S. 1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York; Casino des Exposicións del Teatro Lope de Vega, Seville, Spain; Entrepôt-Galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

1988

Utopia Post Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Bilanz/Balance, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Collections pour une region,CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France;Australian Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Presi Per Incantamento: L’Immagine Fotografica nelle Nuove Tendenze Internazionali, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

A l’Hôtel de la Region, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1987 – 1988

Zeitgeschichten/Blow-up, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgard, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1985 – 1988

Louis XIV Tanzt/Lous XIV Dances, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany; Vereinkunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland; Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Rhône Alpes, St. Etienne, France

1987

Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Theatergarten Bestiarium, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany

Nightfire, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1986

Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Focus: Kanadische Kunst 1960 -85, Art Cologne, Rheinhallen Messegelünd, Cologne, Germany

1985

Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, New York, USA

Aurora Borealis, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Günther Förg & Jeff Wall: Photoworks, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cover/Doppelgünger, Aorta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1984 – 1985

Difference: On Representation and Sexuality, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York

The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

The List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1984

A Different Climate: Aspects of Beauty in Contemporary Art, Stüdtisches Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

1982

Documenta 7, Museum Fridericanium, Kassel, Germany

1981

Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, Rheinhallen Messegëlande, Cologne, Germany

1980

Pluralities 1980, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Cibachrome, Photo Gallery, National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1971

45° 30′ N – 73° 36′ W, Sir George Williams University and the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Collage Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1970

Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA

Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

1969

Photo Show, S.U.B. Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Selected Bibliography

2023

Wong, Lam, Jeff Wall’s Vancouver and Documentary Landscapes, Canton-sardine, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2022

Dufour, Gary (ed.), Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 2005-2021, Yale University Press, USA

2021

Jeff Wall. Potomac, Glenstone Museum, Maryland, USA

2019

Kaiser, Philipp, Jane Weinstock and James Welling, Jeff Wall, The George Economou Collection, Athens

Ferguson, Russell, Jeff Wall, Gagosian, New York, USA

2015

Banz, Stefan, Jeff Wall: With the Eye of the Mind, Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg

Visser, Hripsimé and Yilmaz Dziewior. Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Austria & Amsterdam

2014

Wall, Jeff, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg

2013

Bonami, Francesco, Jeff Wall: Actuality, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea and Electa, Milan

Chevrier, Jean-Francois, Jeff Wall, Hazan, Paris

2012

Dufour, Gary, Jeff Wall: Photographs,The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourn

2011

Benzakin, Joel, Jeff Wall: El Sendero Sinuoso, CGAC, Santiago, Chile

Campany, David, Jeff Wall: Picture for Women, Afterall, London

Campany, David and Michael Fried, Jeff Wall: the Crooked Path, Bozar and Ludion Editions NV, Brussels and Antwerp

2010

Bischoff, Ulrich, Jeff Wall: Transit, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden

De Duve, Thierry, Jeff Wall: Complete Edition, Phaidon, London

2008

Newman, Michael, Jeff Wall: Works and Collected Writings, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona

Hoban, Stephen and Helena Winston (ed.), Jeff Wall: Exposure, Deutsche Guggenheim and The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, Berlin and New York

2007

Edwards, Steve, Oxford Art Journal: Jeff Wall Special Issue, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Burnett, Craig, Jeff Wall, White Cube, London

Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Galassi, Peter and James Rondeau, Jeff Wall, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2006

Chevrier, Jean-François, Jeff Wall, Hazan, Paris

2005

Wagstaff, Sheena and Jeff Wall, Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004, Tate Publishing, London

Visher, Theodora and Heidi Naef (ed.), Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978 – 2004, Steidl, Göttingen

Burnett, Craig, Modern Art Series: Jeff Wall,Tate Publishing, London

2003

Wall, Jeff and Achim Hochdörfer, Jeff Wall: Photographs, Walther König, Cologne

2002

Chevrier, Jean-Francois, Jeff Wall, Phaidon Press, London

Jeff Wall: Photographs, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg

2001

Ammann, Jean Christophe and Lauter, Rolf, Jeff Wall: Figures & Places, Selected Works from 1978-2000, Prestel, New York

Wall, Jeff, Essais et entretiens 1984-2001, École nationale supérieure des beaux- arts, Paris

1999

Gingras, Nicole and Lussier, Réal, Jeff Wall: Oeuvres 1990-1998, Museé d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

1997

Brougher, Kerry, Jeff Wall, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1996

Chevrier, Jean-Francois and Helmut Friedel, Jeff Wall: Space and Vision, Schirmer/ Mosel, Munich

de Duve, Thierry, Jeff Wall, Phaidon Press, London

Wall, Jeff, Jeff Wall: Landscapes and Other Pictures, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

1995

Jeff Wall, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1994

Stals, Jose Lebrero, Jeff Wall, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

Newman, Michael, Jeff Wall, De Pont Stichting voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg

1993

Atkinson, Terry and Jeff Wall, Jeff Wall: Dead Troops Talk, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

1992

Jonge, Ingrid Fischer, Jeff Wall, The Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk

Auffermann, Verena and Linsley, Robert, Jeff Wall: the Storyteller, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

1991

Grynsztejn, Madeleine, Notes on a Work by Jeff Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

1990

Dufour, Gary, Jeff Wall, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

1989

Francblin, Catherine, Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

1988

Thielman, Andreas, Jeff Wall, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster

Migayrou, Frederic, Jeff Wall, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne

1987

Barents, Els, Jeff Wall: Transparencies, Rizzoli, New York

1984

Ammann, Jean-Christophe, Jeff Wall: Transparencies, England Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1983

Wallace, Ian, Jeff Wall,The Renaissance Society, Chicago

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