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Jeff Wall

1946 - Today

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Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian photographer. He is 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeff Wall is the 1,106th most popular painter (down from 1,096th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Canada (down from 164th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jeff Wall ranks 1,106 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Zuccarelli, Antonio de Pereda, Vicente Juan Masip, Lorenzo Lippi, Vladimir Borovikovsky, and Aelbrecht Bouts. After him are Giovanni Fattori, Li Tang, Dora Carrington, Othon Friesz, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, and Adolf Wölfli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jeff Wall ranks 298. Before him are Ibn Warraq, Stephen Rea, Adam Michnik, Ewa Kłobukowska, Carl Wilson, and Dick Wolf. After him are Patty Duke, Anatoliy Byshovets, Leszek Miller, Vincent Pastore, Hanna Suchocka, and Andrew Yao.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 194 out of 1,622. Before him are Maynard Ferguson (1928), Robert Langlands (1936), Bret Hart (1957), Henry Czerny (1959), John van 't Schip (1963), and Marie Dressler (1868). After him are John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Ian Hacking (1936), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Kim Campbell (1947), Deadmau5 (1981), and Katheryn Winnick (1977).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 2. Before him are Maud Lewis (1903). After him are Agnes Martin (1912), Emily Carr (1871), John McCrae (1872), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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