Jeff Wall

Bio:

Jeff Wall is an artist from Vancouver, Canada recognized for his contributions to the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism. Since the 1970s, Wall’s work has explored ideas about the nature of images, representation, and memory. His large-scale photographs appropriate the visual language of advertising in their use of backlit transparencies. The subjects are “cinematographic” reconstructions of everyday moments, fiction, and art history, which he refers to as “near documentary.”