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Jeff Wall CV 2018 JEFF WALL 1946 Born in Vancouver. Lives and works in Vancouver. Education 1964-70 MA Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1970-73 Doctoral Research, Courtauld Institute, University of London Solo exhibitions 2017 Jeff Wall , National Museum of Art (The Museum of Recent Art), Bucharest 2015 Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996-2013 , Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek Jeff Wall , Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris Jeff Wall , Pérez Museum, Miami Jeff Wall , White Cube, Hong Kong Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman, London Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman, New York Jeff Wall , Canada House, London 2014 Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen 2013 Jeff Wall: Actuality , PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan Jeff Wall in Munich , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Jeff Wall , Tel Aviv Museum of Art Jeff Wall Photographs , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2012 Jeff Wall Photographs , Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Portraits , Lorcan O’Neill, Rome Jeff Wall: In Light, Black, Colour, White and Dark , Pinchuk Arts Centre, Kiev 2011 Jeff Wall , White Cube, London Curated by Jeff Wall: Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path , Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels Jeff Wal l, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2010 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris Jeff Wall, Transit , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden and Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany 2009 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2008 Jeff Wall , Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome Works 1979 – 1990 , Galerie Rüdiger Schottle, Munich Jeff Wall , Vancouver Art Gallery Jeff Wall , Tamayo Museum, Mexico City Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2007 Jeff Wall: Exposure , Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin Jeff Wall , White Cube, London Jeff Wall , Johnen Galerie, Berlin Jeff Wall , Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris 2005 Photographs 1978-2004 , Tate Modern, London Photographs 1978-2004 , Schaulager, Basel 2004 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall , Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo 2003 Photographs , MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation), Vienna Jeff Wall , UCLA Hammer Museum, Lobby Gallery, Los Angeles Jeff Wall: Landscapes , Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK 2002 Jeff Wall , Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2001 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall: Figures & Places , Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt 1999 Jeff Wall , Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona Jeff Wall: Oeuvres 1990-1998 , Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal 1998 Jeff Wall: Photographs of Modern Life , Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Here and Now II: Jeff Wall , Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK 1997 Jeff Wall , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Art Tower Mito, Tokyo and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1996 Jeff Wall , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Jeff Wall: Landscapes , Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Jeff Wall , Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 1995 Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Jeff Wall , Jeu de Paume, Paris 1994 De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Galerie, Berlin 1993 The Childrens' Pavilion (with Dan Graham), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Kunstmuseum Luzern; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France 1992 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1991 San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art 1990 The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Jeff Wall 1990 , Vancouver Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 1989 Jeff Wall, The Children's Pavilion (collaborative project with Dan Graham), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall , Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseilles, France and Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Rhône Alpes, Lyon Jeff Wall , Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montreal and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California 1988 Jeff Wall , Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany Jeff Wall , Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France 1987 Young Workers , Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel 1984 Jeff Wall: Transparencies , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Kunsthalle Basel 1983 Jeff Wall , The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Installation of Faking Death (1977), The Destroyed Room (1978), Young Workers (1978), Picture for Women (1979) , Art Gallery of Greater Vancouver Selected group exhibitions 2015 This Place , Tel Aviv Museum of Art Museu Coleção Berardo (1960-2010) , Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon Elective Affinities, Julião Sarmento, collector, Museu da Eletricidade and Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon Jeff Wall and Stephan Balkenhol, Figure on Display , Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany Perfect Likeness: Photography & Composition , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2014 Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Danh Vo, Giuseppe Pennone , Marian Goodman Gallery, New York This Place, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Equilibrium , Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence Andreas Gursky | Neo Rauch | Jeff Wall , Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand- Duc Jean/ Mudam, Luxembourg Jeff Wall, Richard Long, Enrico Castellani , Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome 2013 Go! You sure? Yeah , LUMA/Westbau, Zurich Construction and Individual Mythology , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Jeff Wall/Andreas Gursky , Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Chalet Hollywood, Los Angeles About Face , Pier24 Photography, San Francisco Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex , Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe A Shock to the Senses. Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya , Albertinum, Galerie der Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany Open Spaces/Secret Places , Sammlung Verbund, Vienna Making it up: Photographic Fictions , Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographic Eye , FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France Salon der Angst , Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna CONTINENTAL DRIFT Part 2, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Waiting Time. Selections from the Museum’s Collection , Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France 2012 Lost Places – Orte der Photographie , Hamburger Kunsthalle Malerei in Fotografie – Strategien der Aneignung , Städel Museum, Frankfurt The Residue of Memory , Aspen Art Museum, Colorado This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s , Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Fresh Widow – Fenster-Bilder seit Matisse und Duchamp , K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein, Westfalen-am-Grabbeplatz, Düsseldforf, Germany Making History , Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt Coup Double , FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France The Studio, Sites of Production , Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland Open Spaces, Secret Places , Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria Seduced by Art , National Gallery, London To be With Art is All we Ask , Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo A Blind Spot , Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of 'la Caixa' Foundation and MACBA , Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 2011 PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! , Sprengel Museum, Hannover Structure and Absence , White Cube, London Street Life & Home Stories , 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 Doppeleffekt , Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany Art of the 1980s: A Düsseldorf Perspective , K21, Düsseldorf Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life , Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Conversation Pieces: A Chamber Play (Act Three) , Johnen Galerie, Berlin 2009 Cézanne and Beyond , Philadelphia Museum of Art Esposizione Universale – l'arte alla prova del tempo , Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy Bad Habits , Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Who’s afraid of the artists? , Palais des Arts, Dinard, France Against the Grain: 15 Years of Collecting , Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthaus Düsseldorf and Konsthall Malmö 2008 Held together with Water, Art from the Sammlung Verbund , Istanbul Modern Ambition d’art , Institute d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France From Nature , Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social , Vancouver Art Gallery 2007 Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection , H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri Artist’s Choice: Roy Arden Selects From the Collection , Vancouver Art Gallery Window | Interface , Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri 2nd Moscow Biennial On History , Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid 2006 Super Vision , Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The 80s:
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