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OVERVIEW
Attributes
- Male
- Fotoconceptualismo
Galleries
- BELGIUM
- Galerie Greta Meert
- FRANCE
- Galerie Marian Goodman
- GERMANY
- Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
- Johnen Galerie
- ITALY
- Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
- SOUTH KOREA
- Kukje Gallery
- UNITED KINGDOM
- White Cube - Bermondsey Street
- White Cube - Mason´s Yard
- UNITED STATES
- Carolina Nitsch
- Marian Goodman Gallery
About the artist
Lives and works in Vancouver
1946: Born in Vancouver
Wall was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. While studying art history at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s, he became interested in Vancouver's experimental art scene and taught himself photography, seeing it as the best tool for expressing his conceptual ideas. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968, and his Master of Arts degree from the same university in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he did postgraduate research at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. In 1974 he accepted his first teaching position, at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, subsequently teaching at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1976-87, and since 1987 at the University of British Columbia. Early group exhibitions include 1969 shows at the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, and Vancouver Art Gallery, and New Multiple Art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London in 1970. His first one-man show was held at Nova Gallery, Vancouver in 1978. Other solo exhibitions have been held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1984, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1995, which toured in 1995-6 to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.Wall has said, 'The only way to continue in the spirit of the avant-garde is to experiment with your relation to tradition' (Artnews, Nov. 1995, p.222). In 1977, during a visit to the Prado in Madrid, he was moved by the paintings of Velázquez and Goya. He felt that, due to what he saw as the dominance of photography and film, it was no longer possible for modern artists to paint like the great masters. Seeking a new method to represent everyday life pictorially, Wall found a suitable medium in advertising hoarding lightboxes, and made his first backlit transparencies in 1978. Early works, such as The Thinker (1986) based on Rodin's sculpture of that name, referred directly to great works in the history of art. Recently, he has more actively explored the literary and filmic aspects of his art. The majority of his pieces are set in Vancouver and contain references to art, the media, and socio-economic problems.
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ARTWORKS
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EXHIBITIONS
Past exhibitions
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APR 19 - SEP 08, 2013
Group ExhibitionCONTINENTAL DRIFT Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s
Badischer Kunstverein - Karlsruhe, Germany
Part I: 19.04.-23.06.2013 Opening: Thursday, 18 April, 7 pm Part II: 28.06.-08.09.2013 Opening: Thursday, 27 June, 8 pmFrom April to September 2013, Badischer Kunstverein is hosting a major exhibition and events project on conceptual art in Canada, specifically,...
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COLLECTION
Collection
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Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK
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Belgium
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
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Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery
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Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
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France
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne
FRAC - Collection Aquitaine
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais
IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal
Musée municipal d'art La Roche-sur-Yon
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Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK)
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Museum Ludwig
Pinakothek der Moderne
Sammlung Goetz
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau
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Italy
Fondazione Querini Stampalia ONLUS
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE
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Netherlands
Kröller-Müller Museum
Museum De Pont
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Portugal
Ellipse Foundation
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Spain
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga
Cal Cego - Colleccion de Arte Contemporaneo
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA
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Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung
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United Kingdom
Art Gallery of Western Australia
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United States
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The Margulies Collection
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Austria
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