Born in Shoreham/UK, 1943
Studied at University of British Columbia, Master of Art History, Vancouver, 1968
Lives and works in Vancouver
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Hauser & Wirth, London/UK
Kunsthalle Zurich, ‘IAN WALLACE’, Zurich/CH
Witte de With, ‘IAN WALLACE. A Literature of Images’, Rotterdam/NL
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, ‘IAN WALLACE’, Dusseldorf/DE
Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York NY
2007
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver/CA
2005
Charles H. Scott Gallery, ‘IAN WALLACE: In the Studio’, Vancouver/CA
Belkin Satellite, ‘Magazine Piece(s), 1970 -’, Vancouver/CA
2004
American Fine Arts, New York NY
2003
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver/CA
2001
Colin de Land Fine Art, New York NY
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘My Heroes in the Street’, Vancouver/CA
1999
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver/CA
Thomas March Gallery, Valencia/ES
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels/BE
1998
Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg/DE
Sprengel Museum, ‘Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993)’, Hannover and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden/DE
1997
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver/CA
genesta, ‘IAN WALLACE: genesta [new works]’, London/UK
Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal/CA
Galerie Fucares, Madrid/ES
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/CA
1996
Art Gallery of Windsor, ‘The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993)’, North Vancouver/CA
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/CA
Galerie Tomas March, Valencia/ES
Galerie Dels Angels, Barcelona/ES
1995
Sala Robayera, Miengo/ES
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver/CA
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto/CA
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris/FR
Presentation House Gallery, ‘The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993)’, North Vancouver/CA
1993
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris/FR
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels/BE
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops/CA
Galeria Tomas March, Valencia/ES
1992
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Fucares, Madrid/ES
Galleria Marco Noire, Turin/IT
1991
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich/DE
Galleria Sergio Casoli, Milan/IT
Cold City, Toronto/CA
1990
University of British Columbia Fine Art Gallery, ‘The Idea of the University’, Vancouver/CA
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queens University, Kingston/CA
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY
Galeria Temple, Valencia/ES
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris/FR
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica/CA
De Vleeshal, Hommage à Mondrian, Middleburg/NL
1989
Galerie Meert-Rihouz, Brussels/BE
Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne/DE
Maison de la Culture, St. Etienne/FR
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris/FR
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris/FR
Cold City Gallery, Toronto/CA
1988
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘IAN WALLACE: Selected Works 1970-1987’, Vancouver/CA [traveled to 49th Parallel, New York NY; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina/CA; Power Plant, Toronto/CA; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon/CA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg/CA]
Cold City Gallery, Toronto/CA
Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome/IT
Or Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1987
Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich/DE
1986
Cold City Gallery, Toronto/CA
1984
Or Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1983
Or Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1982
David Bellman Gallery, Toronto/CA
1980
Optica Gallery, Montreal/CA
1979
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1978
Nova Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1976
Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver/CA
1975
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto/CA
1974
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver/CA
Group Exhibitions
2008
Generali Foundation, ‘Un Coup de Dés. Writing Turned Image’, Vienna/AT
Simon Fraser University Gallery, ‘The Constant Search for a Better Way’, Burnaby/CA
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘Process as Work’, Vancouver/CA
National Gallery of Canada, ‘Studio Models’, Ottawa/CA
2007
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, ‘The Monochromatic Field’, Vancouver/CA
Palazzo Reale, Canadian Art Ideas, Milan/IT
2006
Catriona Jeffries, ’274 East 1st’, Vancouver/CA
Contemporary Art Gallery, ‘Concrete Language’, Vancouver/CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Paint’, Vancouver/CA
Museé national d’art moderne, ‘Les Peintres de la vie moderne’, Paris/FR
Fondacion Antonio Saura, ‘Ayermanana’, Cuenca/ES
Vancouver Art Gallery, ’75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a citizen’, Vancouver/CA
The Hugh Lane Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Studio’, Dublin/IE
2005
Wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, ‘Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver’, Herouville Saint-Clair/FR
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, ‘Curb Appeal’, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island/CA
Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Intertidal / Art in Vancouver Now!’, Antwerp/BE
Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘The Collection XIII’, Antwerp/BE
Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Fundacion Juan March, ‘Fotografia de los años 80 y 90 en la colección del MNCARS’, Cuenca/ES
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘Mix With Care’, Vancouver/CA
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘Painting After Poverty’, Vancouver/CA
2004
Art Gallery of Hamilton, ‘Future Cities’, Hamilton/CA
Canadian Cultural Centre, ‘Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver’, Paris/FR
Pinakothek der Moderne, ‘Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung’, Munich/DE
Surrey Art Gallery, ‘Face to Face’, Surrey/CA
Mackenzie Art Gallery, ‘The Shadow of Abstraction’, Regina/CA
FRAC Bretagne, ‘b.a.-ba, un choix dans la collection’, Châteaugiron/FR
Passage de Retz, ‘Forever’, Paris/FR
2003
Presentation House Gallery, ‘Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955 to 1985’, North Vancouver/CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Robert Smithson in Vancouver’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Bretagne, ‘Peintures Actuelles I’, Châteaugiron/FR
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘The Big Picture’, Vancouver/CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Temporal Spaces’, Vancouver/CA
Travesia Cuatro Arte Contemporaneo, ‘El Ojo de la Arquitectura’, Madrid/ES
2002
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘This Place’, Vancouver/CA
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘Signage’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Basse-Normandie, ‘Ma maison dans ta rue’, Caen/FR
2001
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, ‘An Attack on Literature’, Geneva/CH
Presentation House Gallery, ‘Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver’, North Vancouver/CA
Art Gallery of Windsor, ‘Alignments’, Windsor/CA
Museo Municipal de Malaga, ‘Arquitecturas del silencio’, Malaga/ES
PHAG, INC., New York NY
2000
Musée d’art, d’histoire et de folklore de Cassel, ‘Carrefour Historique’, Cassel/FR
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Pictures, positions and places’, Vancouver/CA
Galerie Fucares, ‘Inside/Outside’, Madrid/ES
Zerynthia, ‘L’Ultimo Disegno del 1999’, Rome/IT
Galerie Meert Rihoux, ‘Accrochage IV’, Brussels/BE
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘Ni jeunes, ni vieux, mais bons’, Paris/FR
‘L’Invitation a la ville’, Brussels/BE
FRAC Bretagne, ‘Gratture, Biffure & Incisure’, Châteaugiron/FR
1999
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Recollect’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Haute-Normandie, ‘In the City’, Sotteville-les-Rouen/FR
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, ‘Esguards Distants’, Valencia/ES
MAMCO Musée d’ Art Morderne et Contemporain de Genève, Geneva/CH
MacKenzie Art Gallery, ‘Regionalism Reconstructed’, Regina/CA
1998
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, ‘Arquitecturn Racionalista Valenciana’, Valencia/ES
Le Magasin, ‘Tell me a story’, Grenoble/FR
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘Au nom du sport’, Paris/FR
Hamburger Kunstverein, ‘Fast Forward/Archives’, Hamburg/DE
1997
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, ‘Due West’, Angoulême/FR
Caisse des Depots Consignations, ‘Breve Rencontre’, Paris/FR
FRAC Bretagne, ‘L’oeil alerte’, Chateaugiron/FR
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at The Art Gym at Marylhurst College, ‘Road Movies in a Post Colonial Landscape’, Portland OR
1996
La Criée, Centre d’art contemporain, ‘Panoramas’, Rennes/FR
Kamloops Art Gallery, ‘The Culture of Nature’, Kamloops/CA
Mois de la Photo, ‘Couvent des Cordeliers’, Paris/FR
FRAC Haut-Normandie, ‘C’est arrivé près de chez nous’, Sotteville-les-Rouen/FR
1995
Stedelijk Museum, ‘A Notion of Conflict’, Amsterdam/NL
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, ‘Painting in the 90’s’, Graz/AT
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, New York NY
S.L. Simpson Gallery, ‘Milieu of the Order of Representation’, Toronto/CA
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘The Sky is the Limit’, Paris/FR
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, ‘Instants Photographiques’, Montreal/CA
Third International Photo Triennale, Esslingen/DE
Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘La transparence dans l’art du XXeme siècle’, Le Havre/FR
Nouveau Musée/Institut d’art contemporain, ‘Artistes/Architectes’, Villeurbanne/FR
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Vancouver 1965-1975: Contexts and Influences’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, ‘Collection, fin XXeme’, Poitou-Charentes/FR
Le Magasin, ‘Morceaux Choisis’, Grenoble/FR
S.L. Simpson Gallery, ‘David Clarkson, Steven Shearer, IAN WALLACE’, Toronto/CA
1994
Cold City Gallery, ‘Mediatrix’, Toronto/CA
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘Sortir de réserve’, Paris/FR
Galerie Meert Rihoux, ‘Barbara Bloom, Louise Lawler, IAN WALLACE’, Brussels/BE
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, ‘Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, IAN WALLACE’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Bretagne, ‘Espaces révélés’, Rennes/FR
Ellen Gallery, ‘Espaces (In)Habitables’, Montreal/CA
1993
Charles H Scott Gallery, ‘Under the Paving Stones’, Vancouver/CA
FRAC Bretagne, ‘Espace de l’image’, Châteaugiron/FR
Musee Roche-sur-Yon, ‘La Nouvelle Génération’, Roche-sur-Yon/FR
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘Autour du livre’, Paris/FR
1992
Centre d’Art Santa Monica, ‘Cameres Indiscretes’, Barcelona/ES, [traveled to: Circulo de Belles Artes, Madrid/ES]
1991
FRAC Corte, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Haute Corse/FR
Galerie Pierre Huber, ‘La revanche de l’image’, Geneva/CH
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, ‘L’art conceptuel depuis les années 70’, Paris/FR
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Los Angeles CA
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, ‘Rendezvous des amis’, Paris/FR
1990
The Artists’ Museum, ‘Construction in Process’, Lodz/PL
Tanit Gallery, ‘Jardins de Bagatelle’, Munich/DE
University of Rennes, ‘Publique/Privée’, Rennes/FR
1989
Cold City Gallery, Toronto/CA
National Gallery of Canada, ‘Canadian Biennal of Contemporary Art’, Ottawa/CA
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, ‘Photokunst’, Stuttgart/DE
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Photoprospekt 89’, Frankfurt/DE
Galerie Meert Rihoux, ‘Accrochages II’, Brussels/BE
1988
Artists Resource Center, ‘The Discursive Field of Recent Photography’, Toronto/CA
Curt Marcus Gallery, ‘Camouflage’, New York NY
Studio Casoli, ‘RODNEY GRAHAM, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, IAN WALLACE’, Rome/IT
Or Gallery, ‘Cold City Exchange’, Vancouver/CA
1987
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, ‘Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte’, Stuttgart/DE [traveled to Haus am Waldsee, Berlin/DE; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg/DE; Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover/DE; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/DE, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne/CH, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn/DE]
Toyama Museum of Modern Art, ‘Toyama Now’, Toyama/JP
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, ‘Heavenly Embrace’, New York NY
Montreal Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Stations’, Montreal/CA
1986
Light Gallery, ‘In the Tradition of Photography’, New York NY
Coberg Gallery, ‘Vikky Alexander and IAN WALLACE’, Vancouver/CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Making History’, Vancouver/CA
Galerie Johnen and Schottle, ‘Barbara Ess, IAN WALLACE, James Welling’, Cologne/DE
Walter J. Phillips Gallery, Banff, ‘Vancouver Now’, Banff/CA [travelled to London Regional Art Gallery, London/CA; Dazibao Gallery, Montreal/CA; Winnipeg Art Galley, Winnipeg/CA]
Cologne International Art Fair, ‘Focus: Canada 1960-1985’, Cologne/DE
Or Gallery, ‘Camera Works’, Vancouver/CA
1985
49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, ‘Ken Lum, RODNEY GRAHAM, Jeff Wall, IAN WALLACE’, New York NY
Third Eye Centre, ‘Visual Facts, Photography and Video by Nine Canadian Artist’, Glasgow/UK
[traveled to Graves Gallery, Sheffield/UK; Canada House, London/UK]
1984
Open Space Gallery, ‘Photo Expansions’, Victoria/CA
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Art and Photography’, Vancouver/CA
1983
Art Gallery of Peterborough, ‘Photographic Sequences’, Peterborough/CA
1979
Winnipeg Art Gallery, ‘Photo/Extended Dimensions’, Winnipeg/CA
1977
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘From This Point of View’, Vancouver/CA
Sechelt Art Gallery, ‘PortraitXCamera’, Sechelt/CA
1975
University of Guelph, ‘Narrative in Contemporary Art’, Guelph/CA
1973
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Canada Trajectories 73’, Paris/FR
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Pacific Vibrations’, Vancouver/CA
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, ‘West Coast Kinesis’, Victoria/CA
1972
Burnaby Art Gallery, ‘Due West’, Burnaby/CA
1971
Saidye Bronfman Cultural Center, ’50 N – 73 W’, Recent Conceptual Art, Montreal/CA
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Collage Show’, Vancouver/CA
1970
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Four Artists: Tom Burrows, Duane Lunden, Jeff Wall, IAN WALLACE’, Vancouver/CA
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Sound Show’, Vancouver/CA
1969
Bau Xi Gallery, ‘Vancouver Focus ‘69’, Vancouver/CA
La Musée de Beaux-Arts, ‘Survey ‘69’, Montreal/CA
University of British Columbia, SUB Gallery, ‘The Photo Show: The Artist as Photographer’, Vancouver/CA
Bau Xi Gallery, ‘Tom Burrows and IAN WALLACE’, Vancouver/CA
1968
Simon Fraser University Gallery, ‘IAN WALLACE and Duane Lunden’, Burnaby/CA
Bau Xi Gallery, ‘Vancouver Focus ‘68’, Vancouver/CA
Douglas Gallery, ‘Recent Vancouver Art’, Vancouver/CA
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Systems and Series’, Vancouver/CA
University of British Columbia SUB Gallery, ‘IAN WALLACE and D’Arcy Henderson’, Vancouver/CA
1967
University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Joy and Celebration’, Vancouver/CA