Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions

Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004Exhibtion at Tate Modern, 21 October 2005 – 8 January 2006. Information and resources on Jeff Wall at Tate Online.

21 October 2005 – 8 January 2006

Works in Focus:

Biography

Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he currently lives and works. He studied art history at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (1964–70) and undertook postgraduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1970–3).

Wall's early work addressed Conceptual art via photography. In 1969–70, he produced a small brochure, Landscape Manual, containing black-and-white photographs of Vancouver taken from the window of a car. In 1976 he began colour photography, and soon mounted large colour transparencies in lightboxes. In 1991 Wall started using digital montage techniques, and he began producing large black-and-white photographs in 1995.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005
Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

2004
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2003
UCLA Hammer Museum, Lobby Gallery, Los Angeles, California

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

MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation), Vienna, Austria

2002
Camera Elinga: Pieter Janssens meets Jeff Wall, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

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

1999
Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

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

1998
Here and Now II: Jeff Wall, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England

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

1997
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn

Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Jeff Wall: Landscapes, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

1995
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

1994
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Galerie, Berlin, Germany

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Stüdtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

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

1992
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1990
Jeff Wall 1990, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1987
Young Workers, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

1984
Jeff Wall: Transparencies, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

1983
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1979
Installation of Faking Death (1977), The Destroyed Room (1978), Young Workers (1978), Picture for Women (1979), The Art Gallery of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1978
Nova Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2004-2003
BERLIN-MOSKAU, MOSKAU-BERLIN 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London, England

2003
Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2000
Encounters: New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London, England

Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

1999
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1997
Documenta 10, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1996
Face á l'Histoire 1933-1996: L'artiste moderne face á l'événement historique, Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

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

1995
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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

1993
Post-Human, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Renegotiations: Class, Modernity, Photography, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art & Design, Norfolk, England

1990
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

1989
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou /La Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

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

1987
L'Epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspects de l'art d'aujourd'hui, 1977-1987, Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1986
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericanium, Kassel, Germany