Resonancias, exhibition view at Parra & Romero, 2019.
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Resonancias, exhibition view at Parra & Romero, 2019.
Resonancias, exhibition view at Parra & Romero, 2019.
In the Street (Greyhound), 1989. Untitled (In the Street I), 1988. In the Street (George), 1989. One Way Street, 1988. Installation view at Kunsthalle Zürich, 2008.
Support Surface (The Wall), 2017. Photolaminate and acrylic on canvas, 152 x 122 cm.
Support Surface (The Table), 2017. Photolaminate and acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91 cm.
In the studio (the table), 2015. Photolaminate and acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm. Support surface (the table), 2017. Photolaminate and acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91 cm.
Installation view A Literature of images, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2008. © Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography.
EXHIBITIONS
2019
PUBLICATIONS
Born in 1943 in Shoreham, UK.
Lives and works in Vancouver.
EDUCATION
1968 – Master of Art History Studio Art, University of British Colombia, Vancouver.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
In the Museum>/i>, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada.
2019
Resonancias, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.
2017
Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada.
Street Floor Table Wall Canvas, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada.
Ian Wallace, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
2015
Tabula Rasa, Canada House, London, England.
Meta Masculin/Féminin, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
The Construction Site, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada.
2013
Ian Wallace. Magazine Paper 1969-2014, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
The Photo Show, Audain Art Centre Gallery, University of British Columbia.
D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant/Actors, Networks, Theories, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2012
Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Ian Wallace, Volker Bradke, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Ian Wallace. Tropismes, Galeria Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
Masculin/Féminin, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2011
Ian Wallace, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland.
2010
Ian Wallace:Masculin/Féminin, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.
Ian Wallace: The Economy of the Image, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
2009
Ian Wallace: Works 1970-1979, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Ian Wallace, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA.
Ian Wallace: My Heroes in the Street, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada.
2008
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
Hauser & Wirth, London, England.
A Literature of Images, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
A Literature of Images, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Ian Wallace, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2007
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2005
Ian Wallace , Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Magazine Piece(s), 1970, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada.
2004
American Fine Arts, New York, NY.
2003
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2001
Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, NY.
1999
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Thomas March Gallery, Valencia, Spain
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
1998
Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Sprengel Museum, Hannover and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany.
1997
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Ian Wallace: genesta (new works), genesta, London, England.
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996-The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Art Gallery of Windsor, North Vancouver, Canada.
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Galerie Tomas March, Valencia, Spain.
Galerie Dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain.
1995
Sala Robayera, Miengo, Spain
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada.
1993
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium.
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada.
Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain.
1992
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY.
Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain.
Galleria Marco Noire, Turin, Italy.
1991
Galerie Rudiger Schttle, Munich, Germany.
Galleria Sergio Casoli, Milan, Italy.
Cold City, Toronto, Canada.
1990
The Idea of the University, University of British Columbia Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY.
Galeria Temple, Valencia, Spain.
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
De Vleeshal, Hommage à Mondrian, Middleburg, Netherlands.
1989
Galerie Meert-Rihouz, Brussels, Belgium.
Galerie Johnen; Schottle, Cologne, Germany.
Maison de la Culture, St. Etienne, France.
Canacian Culture Center, Paris, France.
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
Gold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1988
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Travelling exhibition).
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, 49th Parallel, New York, NY (Travelling exhibition).
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (Travelling exhibition).
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (Travelling exhibition).
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada (Travelling exhibition).
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970-1987, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada (Travelling exhibition).
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy.
Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1987
Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, Germany
1986
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1984
Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1983
Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1982
David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1980
Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
1979
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1978
Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1976
Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1975
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
1974
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Musée Régional D’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
2018
Power of Language, Macht der Sprache, Aus den Sammlungen Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg.
Antartica, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria.
2017
Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY.
Lost in the City, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia Spain.
2015
Regarding Spectatorship, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
Welcome to America, Imagerie Lannion, Lannion, France.
Collecting Lines: Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Chapter I, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Traces that Resemble US, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Recto Verso, Fondazione Prada, Milan Italy.
2014
Freezer BurnHauser & wirth, Organized by Rita Ackermann, New York, NY.
In the Crack of the DAwn, POOL – LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland.
Room Service. Vom Hotel in der Kunst und Künstlern im Hotel, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany.
2013
D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / actors , networks, theories, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
Dear Portrait, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales.
Continental Drift. Conceptual Art in Canaada: The 1960s and 70s, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Germany.
25 Jahre Generali Foundation. The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
Amazing! Clever! Linguistic!, Generali Foundation, cur. Guillaume Désanges, Vienna, Austria.
The content of Form, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments, Wattis Institute for the Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA.
2012
Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2011
Light Years: conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
Books on Books, Swiss Institute New York, New York, NY.
Faces. Works from the Permanent Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2010
EXHIBITION, EXHIBITION, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver 1954-1969, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada.
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2009
Espèces d’Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY.
Road Runners, VOX image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada.
Time as Activity, Netwerk, Aalst, NL.
2008
Un Coup de Dés. Writing Turned Image, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
The Constant Search for a Better Way, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada.
Process as Work, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Studoi Models, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
2007
The Monochromatic Field, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Canadian Art Ideas, Palazzo Reale, Milan Italy.
2006
275 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada.
Concrete Language, Vancouver, Canada.
Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Museé national d’art modern, Paris, France.
Ayermana, Fondacion Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain.
75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a citizen, Vancouver Art GAllery, Vancouver, Canada.
The Studio, The Hugh Lane Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2005
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville, Saint-Clair, France.
Curb Appeal, Confederatoin Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Intertidal / Art in Vancouver Now!, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium.
The Collection XIII, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mix with Care, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Painting after Poverty, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2004
Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada.
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, France.
Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Modern, Munich, Germany.
Face to FAce, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada.
The Shadow of Abstraction, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.
b.a.-ba, un choix dans la collection, FRAC – Fonds Régionals d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France.
Forever, Passage de REtz, Paris, France.
2003
Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955 to 1985, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada.
Robert Smithson in Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Peintures Actuelles I, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne Chateaugiron, France.
The Big Picture, Vancouver Art GAllery, Vancouver, Canada.
Temporal Spaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
El Ojo de la Arquitectura, Travesía Cuatro Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain.
2002
This Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Signage, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Ma maison das ta rue, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Basse-Normandie, Caen, France.
2001
An Attack on Literature, Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver.
Alignments, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.
Arquitecturas del silencio, Museo Municipal de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
2000
Carrefour Historique, Museé d’art, d’histoire et de floklore Pictures, positions and places, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Inside/Outside, Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain.
L’Ultimo Disegno del 1999, Zerynthia, Rome, Itally.
Accrocharge IV, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium.
Ni jeunes, ni vieux, mais bons, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
Gratture, Biffure & Incisure, FRAC – FondsRégional d’Art Contemporain, Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France.
1999
Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
In the City, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Haute-Normandie, Sottoville-les-Rouen, France.
Esguards Distants, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain.
Museé d’art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
Regionalism Reconstructed, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.
1998
Arquitectura Racionalista Valenciana, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain.
Tell me a story, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France.
Au nom du sport, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Fast Forward/Archives, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany.
1997
Due West, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France.
Breve Rencontre, Caisse des Depots Consignations, Paris, France.
L’oeil alerte, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France.
Road Movies in a Post Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at the Art Gym at Marylhurst College, Portland, OR.
1996
Panoramas, La Criée, Centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France.
The Culture of Nature, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada.
Couvent des Cordeliers, Mois de la Photo, Paris, France.
C’est arrivé près de chez nous, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Haut-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France.
1995
A Notion of Conflict, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Neetherlands.
Painting in the 90’s, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, NY.
Milieu of the Order of Representantion, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
The Sky is the Limit, Galerie Gabrielle Maubri, Paris, France.
Instants Photographiques, Museé d’Art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Third International Photo Triennale, Esslingen , Germany.
La transparence dans l’art du XXeme sècle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France.
Artistes/Architectes, Nouveau Musée/Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France.
Vancouver 1965-1975: Contexts and Influences, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Collection, fin XXeme, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou.-Charentes, Poitou Charentes, France.
Morceaux Choisis, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France.
David Clarkson, Seteven Shearer, Ian Wallace, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1994
Mediatrix, Cold City Gallery, toronto, Canada.
Sortir de reserve, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
Barbara Bloom, Louise Lawler, Ian Wallace, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium.
Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Espaces révélés, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France.
Espaces (In)Habitables, Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
1993
Under the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Espace de l’image, FRAC- Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France.
La Nouvelle Génération, Museé Rouche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon, France.
Autour du livre, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
1992
Cameres Indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition).
Cameres Indiscretes, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain (Travelling exhibition.
1991
Recent Acquisitions, FRAC -Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporaine Corte, Haute corse, Frances.
La revanche de l’image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland.
L’art conceptuel depuis les années 70, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Paris, France.
REcent Acquisitions, Museum of contemporary ARt, Los Angeles, Ca.
Rendezvous des amis, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France.
1990
construction in Process, The Artist’ Museum, Lodz, Poland.
Jardins de Bagatelle, Tanit Gallery, Munich, Germany.
Publique/Privée, University of Rennes, Rennes, France.
1989
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Canadian Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Photokunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Suttgart, Germany.
Photoprospekt 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Accrochages II, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium.
1988
The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, Artists Resource Center, Toronto, Canada.
Camouflage, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Studio Casoli, Rome, Italy.
Cold City Exange, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1987
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany.
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany.
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
Tomaya Now, Tomaya Museum of Modern Art, Tomaya, Japan.
Heavenly Embrace, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY.
Stations, Montreal Center for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.
1986
In the Tradition of Photography, Light Gallery, New York, NY.
Vikky Alexander and Ian Wallace, Coberg Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Making History, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne, Germany.
Vancouver Now, Walter J. PHillips Gallery, Banff, Banff, Canada.
Vancouver Now, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada
Vancouver Now, Dazibao Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
Focus: Canada 1960-1985, Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany.
Camera Works, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1985
Ken Lum, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, NY.
Visual Facts, Photography and Video by Nine Canadian Artist, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland.
Visual Facts, Photography and Video by Nine Canadian Artist,Graves Gallery, Sheffield, England.
Visual Facts, Photography and Video by Nine Canadian Artist, Canada House London, england.
1984
Photo Expansions, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada.
Art and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1983
Photographic Sequences, Art GAllery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Canada.
1979
Photo/Extended Dimensions, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
1977
From This Point of View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
PortraitXCamera, Sechelt Art Gallery, Sechelt, Canada.
1975
Narrative in Contemporary Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
1973
Canada Trajectories 73, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
West Coast Kinesis, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canda.
1972
Due West, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada.
1971
50 N – 73 W, Saidye Bronfman Cultural Center, Recent Conceptual Art, Montreal, Canada.
1970
Four Artists: Tom Burrows, Duane Lunden, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, University of British Columbia Fine.
Sound Show, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1969
Vancouver Focus’69, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Survey 69, La Musée de Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada.
The Photo Show: The Artist as Photographer, University of British Columbia, SUB Gallery Vancouver, Canada.
Tom Burrows and Ian Wallace, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1968
Ian Wallace and Duane, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada.
Vancouver Focus’68, Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Systems and Series, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Ian Wallace and D’Arcy Henderson, University of British Columbia SUB Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.