Artist

Jeff Wall

Portrait of Jeff Wall

Canadian

Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.

Jeffrey Jeff Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian photographer. He is an artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.

Collections represented

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