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Jeff Wall

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Canadian photographer (born 1946)

Canada ArtistsBorn 1946 · age 79

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Jeffrey 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.

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Photos 6

Mimic (1982)

Picture for Women (1979). Art critic Jed Perl describes Picture for Women as Wall's signature piece.

Un bar aux Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet, completed in 1882

Awards 7

2008Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts

2003Roswitha Haftmann Award

2002Hasselblad Award

1995Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Officer of the Order of Canada

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

VIVA Awards

Connected to Jeff 6

Irving PennAlso won Hasselblad Award

Audra McDonaldAlso won Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Bill ViolaAlso won Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Richard AvedonAlso won Hasselblad Award

Michelangelo PistolettoAlso won Roswitha Haftmann Award

Stan DouglasAlso won VIVA Awards

About this person

Jeffrey 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.

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Canada