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Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

1946

WA-00000218

Contemporary

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

10

Works in Collection

82

Assets Indexed

11

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ550428

Field Verification (6 fields)

2 cross-verified · 4 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Gallery· 92%✓
LocationWikidata + Gallery· 80%✓
BiographyGallery Gagosian + Gallery Generic+1· 80%
NationalityWikidata + Gallery· 92%
Profile imageGallery· 60%
Primary mediumGallery· 60%

Source Registry (6)

White-Cubehttps://whitecube.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jeff-wall
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/jeff-wall
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/7826
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Jeff Wall yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Contemporary

Medium

—

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (10)

A View from an Apartment

A View from an Apartment

2004 · Transparency on lightbox

support: 1670 x 2440 mm

Rainfilled suitcase

Rainfilled suitcase

2001 · Silver dye bleach transparency; aluminum light box

64.5 × 80 cm (25 3/8 × 31 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Sapling Held by a Post

A Sapling Held by a Post

2000 · Photograph, colour, Chromogenic print, on paper

unconfirmed: 505 x 405 mm

The Flooded Grave

The Flooded Grave

1998 · Transparency in light box

228.6 × 282 cm (90 × 111 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Diagonal Composition

Diagonal Composition

1993 · Transparency on lightbox

unconfirmed: 400 x 460 mm

Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’

Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’

1993 · Transparency on lightbox

support: 773 x 1215 mm

A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)

A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)

1993 · Transparency on lightbox

object: 2500 x 3970 x 340 mm

1989 · silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome)

Image: 45.8 x 61 cm (18 1/16 x 24 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Storyteller

1986 · Silver dye bleach transparency in light box

Image: 229 x 437 cm (90 3/16 x 172 1/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1983 · foil stamping on cloth, portfoilo box cover

Case: 65.1 x 54.6 x 5 cm (25 5/8 x 21 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (5)

10 published of 16 catalogued · 12 with image

Tate
5 published5 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published
Art Institute Chicago
2 published2 img
The Met
1 published
+ 1 more source · 6 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

In a Dream...
1983 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Diagonal Composition
1993 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)
1993 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’
1993 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Outburst
1989 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
A View from an Apartment
2004 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
A Sapling Held by a Post
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

32 assets

Jeff Wall (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Jeff Wall (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Jeff Wall (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

An artwork by Jeff Wall

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Jeff Wall in 2014

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Jeff Wall

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Jeff Wall and Jean Francois Chevrier 28 nov 07

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

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Relationships

7

Movements1

Collections6

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

University of British Columbia

Visual Arts

Courtauld Institute of Art

Visual Arts

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