Representative work by Jeff Wall
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Artist

Jeff Wall

b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada · Canadian

  • University of British Columbia
  • Courtauld Institute of Art

Jeff Wall creates large staged photographs that draw on painting, cinema and everyday urban observation. Presented as transparencies or monumental prints, his images reconstruct apparently ordinary events with elaborate control.

Photography

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 1978The Destroyed Room
  • 1979Picture for Women
  • 1982Mimic
  • 1992Dead Troops Talk
  • 1993A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)
  • 1984Milk
  • 1986The Storyteller
  • 1994Insomnia
  • 1999–2000After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue
  • 1999Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona

Interviews & Writing

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