Jeff Wall
1946
Geboren in Vancouver | Born in Vancouver
Lebt und arbeitet in Vancouver | Lives and works in Vancouver
1964 – 1970
Studiert Kunstgeschichte und bildende Kunst an der Universität von British Columbia, Vancouver (MA in Kunstgeschichte) | Studied art history (MA) and fine arts at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Cuentos Posibles, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel
2022
Jeff Wall, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Jeff Wall, White Cube, London
Jeff Wall, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 – 2020
Jeff Wall, The George Economou Collection, Athens
2019
White Cube, London
Gagosian, New York
Economou Collection, Athens
2018
APPERANCE Kunsthalle Mannheim
APPERANCE Mudam Luxembourg
2017
National Museum of Art (The Museum of Recent Art), Bucharest
2016
Jeff Wall, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Dusseldorf
2015
Jeff Wall, White Cube, Hong Kong
Project Gallery: Jeff Wall, Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Smaller Pictures, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996 – 2013, Louisiana MoMA, Humblebaek
2014
Jeff Wall, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996 – 2013, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2013
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Acutality, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Jeff Wall Photographs, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2012
Portraits, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
2011
White Cube, Mason's Yard, London
The Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2010
Transit, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
2008
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Jeff Wall Photographs, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2007 – 2008
Jeff Wall: Belichtung | Exposure, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
White Cube, London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2007
New Photographs, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Jeff Wall, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2006
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
2005
Jeff Wall Photographs 1978 – 2004, Schaulager, Basel
Photographs 1978 – 2004, Tate Modern, London
2004
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
2003
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
Jeff Wall Photographs, MUMOK, Vienna
2002
Hasselblad, Stockholm
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2001
Figures and Places, (Sonderausstellung im Szenenwechsel XX), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Kunstforum Bâloise, Basel
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1999
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona
Suspended Time, EAC, Castellon, Spain (mit | with Pepe Espaliu)
Jeff Wall – Bilder von Landschaften, Die Photographische Sammlung
SK Stiftung Kultur im Media Park Cologne
Jeff Wall, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
1998
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Here and Now, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Photographs of Modern Life. Works from 1978 to 1997 in the Basel Public Art Collection and the Emanuel-Hoffmann-Foundation, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
1997
Performance: Framed Area, Schipol Airport, Amsterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Lenbachhaus / Kunstbau, Munich
1995
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1994
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Centro d'Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1993
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, Paris
1992
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
1991
Galerie Christian Stein, Milan
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
1990
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1989
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1988
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Le Nouveau Musée,Villeurbanne
1987
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
1986
The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
1984
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Kunsthalle Basel
1983
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago
1982
David Bellman Gallery, Toronto
1979
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
1978
Nova Gallery, Canada
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Capturing the Moment, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography and Film. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
2023 – 2024
ON STAGE – Kunst als Bühne, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2023
The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
2022 – 2023
MEN. Prima expoziție Jeff Wall în România, MARe Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
Detente, instante: Una historia de la fotografía, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
2022
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (bis | till 2024)
Everything Under the Sun: In Memory of Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Haunted Realism, Gagosian Gallery, London
2021
Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
2020 – 2021
Staging Silence, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
Continuously Contemporary. New Works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
2020
The Memory of Images, Haus Lange, Kunstmuseum Krefeld
Sammlung MMK, Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt (bis | till 2022)
The Memory of Images, Haus Lange & Haus Esters Museum, Krefeld
2018
Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Body Scan- Anatomie in Kunst + Wissenschaft
Online: 150 Years – 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act Galerie de l'UQAM, Université du Québec, Montreal (bis | till 2023)
2017
L.A. Invitational, Gagosian, New York
Oracle, The Broad, Los Angeles
2016
GLOBALE: Reset Modernity!, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Thomas Demand: L'image voilée, Fondazione Prada, Milan
This Place – Travelling Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
2015
Figure on Display. Stephan Balkenhol & Jeff Wall, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
Fassbinder – JETZT, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
This Place – Travelling Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Perfect Likeness, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Museu Coleção Berardo (1900 – 1960), Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
2014
Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Danh Vo, Giuseppe Penone, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Love Story – Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Vienna
Beneath the Grounf. From Kafka to Kippenberger, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen – K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Early Works, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
2013
Biographical Forms: Construction and individual mythology, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Expansion of the Combat Zone. 1968 – 2000. The Collection Part 3, Neue Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Andreas Grusky / Jeff Wall, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2012
Durchsucht, fixiert, geordnet. Zeitgenössische Fotografie in der Sammlung Rheingold, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
2011 – 2012
Volume!, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
2010
R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
„Intensif-Station“, 26 Künstlerräume im K21, K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
2009
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
2008
Helga de Alvear und Harald Falckenberg im Dialog, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg-Harburg
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE Saint-Nazaire, France | Museion, Bozen
Ambition d'Art, Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne – Lyon
2007
30/40, A selection of forty artists from thirty years at Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Imagination becomes Reality. Eine Ausstellung zum erweiterten Malereibegriff. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
Held together with Water" – Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund. Gruppenausstellung | Group show, MAK Ausstellungshalle Wien, Vienna
Vertigo, The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web, MAMbo Bologna
Held together with water, Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna
2006 – 2007
Le mouvement des images, art cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Cézanne | Jeff Wall | Monet | Francois Morellet. Paul Cézanne: Le Pont des Maincy – Jeff Wall: Rear view, open air theatre, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves. Museu de Arte Contemporanea. Porto, Lisbon
2006
click doubleclick – das dokumentarische moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich und Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Flashback. Eine Revision der Kunst der 80er Jahre, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
some trees, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Gemäldesammlungen Dresden
Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
El momento Suspendido, Colección H & F, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo
Why pictures now, Fotografie, Film, Video heute, MUMOK, Vienna
Full House. Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
2005
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Faces in the Crowd. Images of modern life from Manet to today, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Multiple Räume (2), Park Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
2004
Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London
The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Schrift – Bilder – Denken – Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee,
Berlin
15 Jahre Deichtorhallen: Auktion und Ausstellung, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
ArchiSkulptur – Modelle, Skulpturen und Gemälde, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Shanghai Biennale 2004 – Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale
L'Ombre du temps, Jeu de Paume, Paris
SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2004, Santa Fe
Jeu de Paume / Inauguration: Éblouissement et Guy Bourdin, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Raison et sentiments – Sense & Sensibility, Crac Alsace, Altkirch
Wirklich wahr! – Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen
Art and Utopia – Limited Action, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW – Artistas que fan uso da fotografía, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo
AT WAR, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona
Berlin – Moskau / Moskau – Berlin 1950 – 2000, Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow
Paisaje y Memoria, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Treasure Island, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Last Picture Show, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Multiple Räume (1): Seele – Konstruktionen des Innerlichen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Baden-
Baden
2003
Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, IVAM Valencia
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 – 1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Go Johnny Go! Die E-Gitarre – Kunst und Mythos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
OUTLOOK, International Art Exhibition, Athens
Partners – Eine Ausstellung kuratiert von Ydessa Hendeles, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Fred Sandback, Karl Blossfeldt, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
update #6, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Die Neue Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Looking In – Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel
Les 20 ans des FRAC, FRAC – Regionen, Paris
True Fictions, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken,
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950 – 2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel
Open City: Aspects of Street Photography 1950 – 2000, The Lowry, Salford Quays / Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptural Garden, Washington D.C.
Startkapital (from the Ackermans Collection), K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf
Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arte Salamanca
2001
The Dark. Update #4, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
49. Biennale, Venice
Blick zurück nach vorn – Jeff Wall, Fight on the Sidewalk, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
2000
Encounters: New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
La Beauté, Mission for the Year 2000, Avignon
home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Architecture without Shadow, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
1999
Vergiß den Ball und spiel' weiter, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Carnegie International 1999, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Warten, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
The Time of Our Lives, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Flashes: Collection Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Centro Cultural de Belem
From Beuys to Cindy Sherman: the Lothar Schirmer Collection, Kunsthalle Bremen / Staatliche Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
So Faraway, So Close, encore… Bruxelles, Brussels
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
August Sander: Landschaftsphotographien / Jeff Wall: Bilder von Landschaften, Die Photografische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne / Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Museum of Fine Arts & Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
1998
Under/ Exposed: The World’s Greatest Photo Exhibition, Stockholm Metro, Stockholm
Aspen Museum of Arts, Aspen
The Parkett Artists’ Editions at the Museum Ludwig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Auf der Spur: Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Roteiros…, Bienal de Sao Paulo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The Art of the 80s, Culturgest, Lisbon
Extenuating Circumstances, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1997
documenta X, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
20/20, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
La Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Fondation Cartier, Paris
Die Epoche der Moderne: Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Contemporary Photography 1: Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art
1996
Szenenwechsel IX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Face à l’Histoire 1933 – 1996: L’artiste moderne face à l’évenement historique, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Hall of Mirrors: Art & Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
1995
Art and Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Biennal Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Micromegas, The American Center, Paris
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Public Information : Desire, Disaster, Document, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Leon Golub, Thomas Huber, Rolf Julius, Jeff Wall, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Albertinum, Dresden
1994
The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporay Photographic Art, Hayward Gallery, London
The Ghost in the Machine, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1993
The Sublime Void, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Post-Human, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
The Children's Pavilion, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1992 – 1993
Binera. 14 Interaktionen – Kunst und Technologie, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1992
The Binary Era. New Interactions, Musée Communal d'Ixelles, Brussels
Territorium Artis, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
1991
Standpunkte der Moderne, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel / Emanuel-Hoffmann-Stiftung, Hamburg / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Acquisitions, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Lo Sguardo di Medusa, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Devil on the Stairs. Looking back on the Eighties, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Lost Illusions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
In anderen Räumen, Museum Haus Lange und Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
1990
Passage de l'image, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris / Fundaciòn Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona / Power Plant, Toronto / Wexner Art Center, Colombus / Modern Art Museum, San Francisco
Weiter-sehen 1980 – 1990, Museum Haus Lange und Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
1989
Foto-Kunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Fear of Others, The Round House, Community Arts Council and the Vancouver East Cultural Center, Vancouver
Tenir l'image à distance, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
What is Contemporary Art?, Rooseum, Malmö
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Geroges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne und La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris
A Photo Show. A Selection, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Une autre objectivité / Another objectivity, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato / Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Dan Graham, Jeff Wall. The Children's Pavilion, Newcastle upon Tyne, First Tyne International / Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara / FRAC Rhone Alpes, Villa Gillet, Lyon / Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
Theatergarten Bestiarium, PS 1 Institute for Contemporary Art, New York / Teatro Lope di Vage, Casino de la Exposición, Sevilla / Galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers
mages critiques. Jeff Wall, Dennis Adams, Alfredo Jaar, L. Jammes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1988
John Hilliard, Barbara Kruger, Ken Lum, Richard Prince, Jeff Wall, Galleri Contur, Stockholm
Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Studio Casoli / The Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
Dennis Adams, Alfredo Jaar, Jeff Wall, Tomoko Ligouri Gallery, New York
A l'hotel de la region, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims
Rosc '88, The Guinness Hop Store und The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
Élements Manifestes, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
1988
Presi per l'Incantamento. L'Immagine Fotografica nelle Nouve Tendenze Internazionali, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
From the Southern Cross. A View of World Art c. 1940 – 1988, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Biennale 1988, Melbourne / Art Gallery of New South Wales and Walsh Bay, Pier 2/3, Sidney
Krieg, Liebe, Geld. Katharina Fritsch, Michael van Ofen, Jeff Wall, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Collections pour une région, Capc, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Bilanz / Balance, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Landschaftsansichten, Stephan Balkenhol, Michael van Ofen, Jeff Wall und Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Utopia Post Utopia. Configurations of nature and culture in recent sculpture and photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1987
Nightfire, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
Theatergarten Bestiarium, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich
Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall, Christin Burgin Gallery, New York
documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion. Aspects de l'art d'aujourd'hui. 1977 – 1987, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Zeitgeschichten / Blow up, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart / Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg / Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main / Kunstmuseum, Luzern / Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
1986
Focus. Kanadische Kunst 1960 – 1985, Art Cologne, Cologne
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Making History. Recent Art of the Pacific West, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Zwei Landschaften. Glenn Branca, Jeff Wall, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
1985
Günther Förg en Jeff Wall. Fotowerken, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Aurora Borealis, Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
Visual Facts. Photography and Video by Eight Artists in Canada, Third Eye Center, Glasgow / Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield / Canada House Cultural Center Gallery, London
La Nouvelle Biennale de Paris 1985, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris
Louis XIV tanzt / Louis XIV dances, Galerie der Künstler, Munich / Verein Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich / FRAC Rhones-Alpes, St. Etienne
Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York
Subjects and Subject Matter, London Reginonal Art Gallery, London / The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto / Laurentain University Museum und Arts Centre, Sudburey, Kanada / Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
1983
Difference. On Representation and Sexuality, The List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge Massachussetts / The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago / Institute of Contemporary Art, London / The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Ein anderes Klima. Aspekte der Schönheit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Poco Rococo, Coquitiam Centre Mall
David McWilliam, Greg Snider, Jeff Wall, The Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1981
Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, Museen der Stadt, Cologne
Directions 1981, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Pluralities / 1980 / Pluralités, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Cibachrome, National Film Board of Canada, Photo Gallery, Ottawa
McAdams, Roger Cutforth, Dan Graham, John Hilliard, Jeff Wall, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1973
Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1971
45°30' N – 73°36' W, Sir George Williams University und Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
Ökologische Kunst, Bad Salzdetfurth
New Art, Prague
1970
New Multiple Art 3, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Four Artists. Tom Burrows, Duane Lunden, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, University of British Columbia, Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
1969
Photo Show, S.U.B. Art Gallery, Vancouver
995,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Focus 69, Bau XI, Vancouver
Sammlungen | Collections
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, USA
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Collection de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao, Portugal
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Frac Corsica, Corte, France
Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
Glenstone, Potomac, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Institut d´art contemporain / Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
The International Center of Photography, New York, USA
K20/K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kadist, Paris, France
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Le Collège – Fonds Régional d´art contemporain, Reims, France
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
The Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Pinakotheken, Munich, Germany
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Sammlung Verbund – Vertikale Galerie, Vienna, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Laurenz-Stiftung Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tate, London, UK
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Visual Arts Center Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK