Ian Wallace – CV
Ian Wallace
b. 1943, Shoreham, UK
Lives and works in Vancouver
Education
- 1968 Master of Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 Home and Away, West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver Canada
- 2023 In the Museum (With a Tribute to Lawrence Weiner), Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain
- 2022 In the Museum, Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
- 2021 In the Museum, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2019 Las Resonancias, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
- 2017 Ian Wallace: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver
Street Floor Table Page Wall Canvas, 1969–2017, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium - 2015 Abstract Paintings I–XII (The Financial District), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Tabula Rasa, Canada Gallery, Canadian High Commission, London, UK
Meta Masculin/Féminin, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, USA
The Construction Site, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2014 Magazine Piece 1969–2014, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
- 2012 Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf, Germany
Tropismes, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Masculin/Féminin, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2011 Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2010 The Economy of the Image, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Masculin/Féminin, MacKenzie Gallery, Regina, Canada
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France - 2009 Works 1970–1979, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
My Heroes in the Streets, Vancouver Museum, Vancouver
On Surplus Value, CSA Space, Vancouver - 2008 Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
A Literature of Images, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Yvon Lambert, New York, USA - 2007 Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2005 Magazine Piece(s), 1970, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
Ian Wallace: In the Studio, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver - 2004 Ian Wallace: The Barcelona Series, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 2003 Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Galería Tomás March, Valencia, Spain - 2001 Ian Wallace: New York City, American Fine Arts, Co., at P.H.A.G. Inc., New York
My Heroes in the Street, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 1999 Galería Tomás March, Valencia, Spain
Street Works, 1969–1995, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
In the Studio, 1998 – Masculin/Féminin, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium - 1998 Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
- 1997 Genesta, London, UK
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ian Wallace: Masculin/Féminin, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Galería Fucares, Madrid, Spain
Chopaka, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 1996 Galería Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Galería Dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain
The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada - 1995 The Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Robayera Sala de Arte, Miengo, Spain - 1993 Galería Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France - 1992 Galleria Marco Noire, Turin, Italy
Galería Fucares, Madrid, Spain
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA - 1991 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galleria Sergio Casoli, Milan, Italy
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany - 1990 Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Galería Temple, Valencia, Spain
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Hommage à Mondrian, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
The Idea of the University, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver - 1989 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
l’atelier, la rue, le musée, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Le Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Étienne, France
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970–1987, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada - 1988 New Work, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970–1987, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, USA; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy - 1987 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
- 1986 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 1984 Portrait Gallery, Or Gallery, Vancouver
- 1983 At Work, Or Gallery, Vancouver
- 1982 David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 1980 Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 1979 Ian Wallace: Work 1979, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 1978 Nova Gallery, Vancouver
- 1976 Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver
- 1975 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- 1974 The Summer Script, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023 Here and Now, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- 2022 Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
Views of Within: Portraits of the Spaces We Inhabit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Germany; Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Per Diem; The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, Griffin Arts Project, North Vancouver, Canada
A Century of The Artist's Studio 1920-2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 2021 Sculpting Reality: The Documentary Style in the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
Plan, Image, Sequence, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France - 2020 Words and Deeds, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Caesura, Galeria Parra and Romero, Ibiza, Spain - 2019 Chronotopes, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Affinities: Canadian Artists and France, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Views of the Collection: The Street, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2018 Antarctica. An Exhibition about Alienation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Who Speaks, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Power of Language: From The Collections, Museum der Moderne, Salzberg, Germany
Kinship, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Que parle?/Who Speaks?, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada - 2017 It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
Photography in Canada 1960-2000, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Lost in the City, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Sites of Assembly, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2016 An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Readymades, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada - 2015 Recto Verso, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Distant Observer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Collecting Lines: Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
<<Welcome to America>>, L’Imagerie, Lannion, France - 2014 Freezer Burn, Hauser and Wirth, New York, USA
In the Crack of the Dawn, POOL, LUMA/Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Matthew Higgs & Ian Wallace: Reading Works, The Apartment, Vancouver
Many Places at Once, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Room Service: On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Get Hold of This Space, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France - 2013 D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada
The Photo Show: 1969/2013 – Exploring the Photo Conceptual Archive, AHVA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Dear Portrait, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK
Collected Works, Rennie Collection, Vancouver
The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Continental Drift. Conceptual Art in Canada: the 1960s and 70s, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria - 2012 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
C. 1983: Part II, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
C. 1983: Part I, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada - 2011 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada; Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
An Image, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy
Shore, Forest, and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Books on Books, Swiss Institute New York, New York, USA
Elements of Chance, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Accrochage IX, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
Faces: Works from the Permanent Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA - 2010 Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada; Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada; Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Canada
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives – Lived Fiction, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Blooming Flowers on the Coffee Table, Artexte, Montreal, Canada
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver 1954 – 1969, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada - 2009 Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Time as Activity, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium; VOX centre de l’image contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Espèces d’espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
Road Runners, VOX centre de l’image contemporain and Norman McLaren Art Centre, Montreal, Canada
Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2008 UN COUP DE DÉS: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Field Work, The Apartment, Vancouver
The Constant Search for a Better Way, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Process as Work, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Studio Models, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada - 2007 Canadian Art Ideas, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
The Monochromatic Field: Works from the Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2006 Ayermanana, Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain
Photography Collection: Rotation 4, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
PAINT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France
75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a Citizen, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
274 East 1st, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Paysages de Flandre: De l’infiniment petit à l’infiniment grand, Conseil d’architecture, d’urbanisme et de l’environnement du Nord, organized by Musée de Flandre à Cassel, Cassel, France - 2005 Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Mix with Care, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada
Fotografia de los años 80 y 90 en la colección del MNCARS, Fundación Juan March, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain; Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Painting After Poverty, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France - 2004 b.a.ba, un choix dans la collection, FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
«D’une image qui ne serait pas du semblant.» La Photographie écrite. 1950–2005, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Face to Face: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Le Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada - 2003 El Ojo de la Arquitectura, Travesía Cuatro Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Jede Fotografie ein bild. Siemens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Unfinished Business: Vancouver Street Photographs 1955 to 1985, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver - 2002 Ma Maison dans ta rue, FRAC Basse–Normandie, Caen, France
Signage, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
This Place: Works from the Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2001 Oh cet écho! (Duchampiana) 2, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Arquitecturas del silencio, Museo Municipal de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
Alignments, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada - 2000 L’Ultimo Disegno del 1999, Zerynthia, Rome, Italy
Carrefour Historique, Musée d’art, d’histoire et de folklore de Cassel, Cassel, France
Ni jeunes, ni vieux, mais bons, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Pictures, positions and places, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Gratture, Biffure & Incisure, FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France; Château de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
L’Invitation à la ville, Centrum Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Accrochage IV, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Inside/Outside, Galería Fucares, Madrid, Spain - 1999 Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
In the City, FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
Esguards Distants, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Oh cet écho! (duchampiana), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Regionalism Reconstructed, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada - 1998 La Ciudad moderna: arquitectura racionalista en Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Tell me a story, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Au nom du sport, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Fast Forward/Archives, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - 1997 Due West, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
Brève rencontre, Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris, France
L’oeil alerte, FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
Road Movies in a Post-Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at The Art Gym at Marylhurst College, Portland, OR, USA - 1996 Panoramas, La Criée, Centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France
Mois de la Photo, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
C’est arrivé près de chez nous, FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France - 1995 Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Painting in the 90’s, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Milieu of the Order of Representation, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Sky is the Limit, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Instants Photographiques, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Third International Photo Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
La Transparence dans l’art du XXième siècle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France
Artistes/Architectes, Nouveau Musée/Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Vancouver 1965–1975: Contexts and Influences, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Collection, Fin XXième, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
Morceaux Choisis, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
David Clarkson, Steven Shearer, Ian Wallace, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada - 1994 Mediatrix, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sortir de Reserve, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Accrochage III, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Espaces Révélés, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Espaces (In)Habitables, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal - 1993 Beneath the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Espace de l’Image, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Canada: La Nouvelle Génération, Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon, France
Autour du Livre, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France - 1992 Càmeres Indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain; Círculo de Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain
- 1991 Recent Acquisitions, FRAC Corse, Corte, France
La revanche de l’image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
L’art conceptuel depuis les années 70, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris, France
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Rendezvous des Amis, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France - 1990 Construction in Process, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
Jardins de Bagatelle, Tanit Gallery, Munich, Germany
Publique/Privée, University of Rennes, Rennes, France - 1989 Accrochages II, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Photokunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Photoprospekt 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany - 1988 The Discursive Field of Recent Photography, A.R.C., Toronto, Canada
Camouflage, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Studio Casoli, Rome, Italy - 1987 Blow Up/Zeitgeschichte, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Toyama Now, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Heavenly Embrace, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, USA
Stations, Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada - 1986 In the Tradition of Photography, Light Gallery, New York, USA
Vikky Alexander and Ian Wallace, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
Making History, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Galerie Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Vancouver Now, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada; London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada; Dazibao Gallery, Montreal, Canada; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Focus: Canada 1960–1985, Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
Camera Works, Or Gallery, Vancouver - 1985 Ken Lum, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, 49th Parallel Center for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, USA
Visual Facts, Photography and Video by Nine Canadian Artists, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Canada House, London, UK - 1984 Photo Expansions, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Art and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1983 Photographic Sequences, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Canada
- 1979 Photo/Extended Dimensions, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
- 1977 From This Point of View, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
portrait x camera, Sechelt Art Gallery, Sechelt, Canada
Eight West Coast Artists, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - 1975 Narrative in Contemporary Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
- 1973 Canada Trajectoires 73, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1972 Due West, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
- 1971 45 30’N—73 36’W: Recent Conceptual Art, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada
The Collage Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Poetry Must Be Made By All—Change the World, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1970 Four Artists: Tom Burrows, Duane Lunden, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The Sound Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver - 1969 Vancouver Focus ’69, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Survey ’69, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada
The Photo Show: The Artist as Photographer, SUB Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Tom Burrows and Ian Wallace, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver - 1968 Ian Wallace and Duane Lunden, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Vancouver Focus ’68, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Recent Vancouver Art, Douglas Gallery, Vancouver
Systems and Series, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Ian Wallace and D’Arcy Henderson, SUB Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver - 1967 Joy and Celebration, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Northwest Drawings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Collage Show, Mandan Ghetto, Vancouver
BC ’67, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1966 52nd Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Painting ’66: Vancouver Centennial Award Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1965 34th British Columbia Annual Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
BC Young Painters, Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Monographs
- 2015 Ian Wallace: Tabula Rasa, Canada House, London, England
- 2012 Daina Augaitis, ed., Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Christophe Van Gerrewey, Ian Wallace: Tropismes, 1995–1996, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium - 2011 Gregory Burke, ed., Ian Wallace: The Economy of the Image, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Timothy Long, Ian Wallace: Masculin/Féminin, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada - 2010 Josée Drouin-Brisebois, ed., It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 2008 Monika Szewczyk, ed., Ian Wallace: A Literature of Images, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
- 2007 Clint Burnham and Ian Wallace, Ian Wallace: In the Studio, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
- 1999 Cindy Richmond, Ian Wallace: Masculin/Féminin, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 1998 Thomas Weski and Ian Wallace, Ian Wallace: Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Fachadas Valencianas/La Piscina de las Arenas, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain - 1997 Helga Pakasaar and Ian Wallace, Ian Wallace: Cloyoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
- 1995 Ian Wallace: Corner of the Studio/El Taller, Robayera Sala de Arte, Miengo, Spain
- 1990 Las Pinturas de Valencia 1990, Galería Temple, Valencia, Spain
Ian Wallace and Scott Watson, eds., Ian Wallace: The Idea of The University, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver - 1989 Robert Kleyn and Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace: Images, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Étienne, France
- 1988 Christos Dikeakos, Robert Kleyn, and Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace: Selected Works 1970–1987, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 1979 Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Ian Wallace: Work 1979, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
- 2023 Patricia Bovey, Western Voices in Canadian Art, University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, Canada
- 2022 Patrik Andersson and Kiriko Watanabe, Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
Ian Wallace, ‘Photoconceptualism and the Documentary Style’, in Sculpting Reality, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art; Valencia, Spain; La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain - 2016 Barry Schwabsky, The Perpetual Guest, Verso, New York, USA
Helga Pakasaar, Woosh, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada - 2013 Christos Dikeakos, et al., The Photo Show: 1969/2013 Exploring the Photo Conceptual Archive, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- 2012 Robin T. Anthony and Cassandra Cook, eds., The RBC Collection: Selected Works, RBC Collection, Toronto, Canada
Grant Arnold and Karen Henry, eds., Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver - 2011 Collection Vanmoerkerke, Rispoli Books, Brussels, Belgium
- 2010 Sophie Brodovitch and Jennifer Cane, eds., Our Changing Landscape: Perspectives on and Interpretations of British Columbia, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Ilse Lafer, ed., Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives—Lived Fiction, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Adam Carr, ed., Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, and Skira Editore, Milan, Italy - 2009 Marie-Josée Jean, Road Runners, VOX, Montreal, Canada
- 2008 Sabine Folie, ed., Un coup de dés: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
- 2007 Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, eds., Charley 05, Les Presses du Reel, Dijon, France, and Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Jens Hoffmann, The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland - 2006 Germaine Koh, Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday’s Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Dieter Roelstrate and Scott Watson, eds., Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium, and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Karen Henry, ‘The Artful Disposition: Theatricality, Cinema, and Social Context in Contemporary Photography’, in Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Melanie O’Brian and Helga Pakasaar, Territory, Artspeak, Vancouver, and Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Mark A. Cheetham, Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the 60s, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK - 2005 Grant Arnold, et al., Real Pictures: Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Bill Jeffries, Glen Lowry and Jerry Zaslove, eds., Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, and West Coast Line, Burnaby, Canada
Trevor Mahovsky, ‘Painting After Poverty: From the Homeopathic to the Crystalline in Painting’s New Age’, exhibition essay for Painting After Poverty, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2004 Robert Linsley, The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Karen Love, ed., Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, and Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Grant Arnold, et al., Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 2003 Barry Schwabsky, ‘Ian Wallace’s Cityscapes’, exhibition essay for Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
- 2002 Karen Love, ed., Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
Clint Burnham, ‘Cat Fries’, exhibition essay for Signage, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2001 Rosa Olivares, Arquitecturas del Silencio, Museo Municipal de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
- 2000 Ian M. Thom, Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia, Douglas & McIntyre and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Anne Newlands, Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly Books, Willowdale, Canada - 1998 Yves Aupetitallot, Raconte-moi une histoire: La Narration dans la peinture et la photographie contemporaines, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
- 1997 Frank vande Veire, ‘The Survival of the Aura’, in De geplooide voorstelling, De Gelaarsde Kat, Brussels, Belgium
Traversing Territory, Part II: Road Movies in a Post-Colonial Landscape, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA - 1995 Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 1994 Artistas Extranjeros en las Colecciones del Museo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Karen Antaki, ‘Inhabitable places’, exhibition essay for Espaces (In)Habitables, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada - 1993 Catherine Bédard and Marc Mayer, Canada: une nouvelle génération, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Gétigné-Clisson, France
Scott Watson, ‘Ian Wallace’s Poverty’, in Frame of Mind: Viewpoints on Photography in Contemporary Canadian Art, eds. Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Daina Augaitis, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Robert Kleyn, Beneath the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver - 1992 José Lebrero Stats, et al., Càmeres Indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica and Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- 1990 Frank vande Veire, Hommage a Mondrian, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
- 1989 Diana Nemiroff, Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 1988 Tom Folland, The Discursive Field of Recent Photography: Roy Arden, Sarah Charlesworth, Ken Lum, Ian Wallace, A.R.C., Toronto, Canada
Jean-François Chevrier, Another Objectivity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy - 1987 Tilman Osterwold, Blow Up: Zeitgeschichte, Württemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
James Campbell, ‘Ian Wallace’, in Stations: Les cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal, Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Claudia Beck, ‘Through the Looking Glass, Vancouver Photography in the Seventies’, in Vancouver Art and Artists, 1931–1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver - 1984 Art and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 1983 David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Art, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, Canada, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- 1977 From this Point of View: 60 British Columbia Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, Graphic and Video Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Mowry Baden, Roland Brener, Christos Dikeakos, Fred Douglas, Dean Ellis, Rodney Graham, Tod Greenaway, Ian Wallace, Pender Street Gallery, Vancouver
Magazines and Periodicals
- 2024 Janet Smith, ‘Ian Wallace bridges the distant past and the present in Home and Away, at West Vancouver Art Museum’, Stir, 15 March
- 2022 Hadani Ditmars, ‘Pioneering photo-conceptualist Ian Wallace wins one of Canada’s top art prizes’, The Art Newspaper, 29 September
John Mackie, ‘Ian Wallace wins the 2022 Audain Prize for Visual Art’, Vancouver Sun, 29 September - 2021 Yani Kong, ‘Ian Wallace: A meditation on the museum wall’, Galleries West, 6 May
- 2018 John Luna, ‘Into the Woods’, Canadian Art, 6 June
- 2017 Anton Lee, ‘Unlearning the Vancouver School’, Canadian Art, 14 June
Alison Sinkewicz, ‘Ian Wallace’, Montecristo Magazine, 1 June
Victor Burgin, ‘Intersections: Painting and Photography: A Response to an Exhibition by Ian Wallace’, Prefix Photo, No. 35, May - 2016 Gigiotto Del Vecchio, ‘The Pictorial’, reprinted in Mousse Magazine, Issue 56, November/December
- 2015 ‘Ian Wallace “Meta Masculin/Féminin” at Jessica Silverman Gallery’, Mousse Magazine, 5 June
- 2014 Colin Browne and Ian Wallace, ‘A Conversation’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.23, Spring
- 2013 Robert Linsley, ‘Ian Wallace’, Frieze, April
Michael Harris, ‘World within world’, Nuvo, Spring
Gary Pearson, ‘Ian Wallace’, Border Crossings, Issue 125, March
Aaron Peck, ‘Ian Wallace’, Artforum, February - 2012 Sarah Milroy, ‘Two artistic studies in reticence share unexpected resonances’, The Globe and Mail, 16 November
Jen St. Denis, ‘Ian Wallace merges media in career retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery’, North Shore News, 2 November
Michael Turner, ‘Intersections: A New Ian Wallace Retrospective at the VAG’, Canadian Art online, 31 October
Marsha Lederman, ‘Ian Wallace: The artist as teacher, mentor, instigator’, The Globe and Mail, 29 October
Robin Laurence, ‘Vancouver Art Gallery’s Ian Wallace retrospective captures photos, paintings, and even film,’ The Georgia Straight, 25 October
Lucy Hyslop, ‘Trail-blazing B.C. artist Ian Wallace in sharp focus’, The Vancouver Sun, 24 October
Dan Adler, ‘Ian Wallace’s Monochrome Series’, C Magazine, Issue 114, Summer
Manuel Cirauqui, ‘Entretien avec Ian Wallace’, 20/27 Revue de Texts Critiques sur l’Art, Issue 6
Kevin Griffin, ‘C. 1983: When artists started experimenting with photography’, The Vancouver Sun, 27 March
Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Mind Games’, Canadian Art online, 16 February
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Hotel Artists’, The Nation, 23 January
Kevin Griffin, ‘Ian Wallace: Monochrome Meets Photograph’, The Vancouver Sun, 13 January
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Heroism, Hidden’, The Nation, 7 January - 2011 Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Biennale de Montréal: The Gamblers’, Canadian Art online, 19 May
Katherine Monk, ‘Insight into Creative Obsession: Local Artist Ian Wallace Explores Origins of The Vancouver School’, The Vancouver Sun, 13 May
Marie-Ève Charron, ‘La Biennale de Montréal a meilleure mine’, Le Devoir, 7 May
John Pohl, ‘Let chance be your guide at BNL MTL’, The Montreal Gazette, 7 May
John Pohl, ‘Life’s uncertainty theme of Montreal Biennale’, The Montreal Gazette, 29 April - 2010 Manuel Cirauqui, ‘Conversación con Ian Wallace: filosofía encarnada’, Lapiz, Issue 264
Christopher Mooney, ‘Ian Wallace’, ArtReview, May
Jessica Morgan, ‘Choreographing Meaning: Ian Wallace’s Rigorous Brand of West Coast Conceptualism’, Canadian Art, Spring - 2009 Gigiotto Del Vecchio, ‘The Pictorial’, Mousse Magazine, Issue 21, November/December
Catrin Lorch, ‘Ian Wallace’, Frieze, March - 2008 Gary Pearson, ‘Location and Actuality: Christos Dikeakos, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace’, Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment, Issue 2
Gerhard Mack, ‘Lehrmeister der Weltstars’, art—Das Kunstmagazin, November
Gary Pearson, ‘Ian Wallace’, Border Crossings, Issue 105, February
Samir Gandesha, ‘Ian Wallace’, Art Papers, January/February - 2007 Kevin Griffin, ‘The Intersections of a career’, The Vancouver Sun, 3 November
Marsha Lederman, ‘Behind the lens: The Vancouver School debate’, The Globe and Mail, 20 October - 2006 Julia Dault, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, The National Post, June 15
Clint Burnham, ‘Artworks challenge and intrigue’, The Vancouver Sun, 3 June
Sarah McFadden, ‘Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists’, Art Papers, May/June - 2005 Clint Burnham, ‘Art’s narrative of discovery in 2005’, The Vancouver Sun, 31 December
Amy O’Brian, ‘Vancouver artists make waves around the world’, The Vancouver Sun, 17 December
Michael Harris, ‘Mix with care’, Canadian Art, Winter
Robin Laurence, ‘Ian Wallace: In the Studio’, The Georgia Straight, 10 March - 2004 Clint Burnham, ‘Aperto Vancouver’, Flash Art, November/December
Deborah Campbell, ‘Exchanges + Gatherings’, Canadian Art, Winter
Gary Pearson, ‘Ian Wallace’, Border Crossings, Issue 90, May
Sarah Milroy, ‘Arts scene veterans finally get their due’, The Globe and Mail, 4 March
Peter Birnie, ‘B.C. award winner thankful for day job’, The Vancouver Sun, 4 March
Robert Linsley, ‘The Ironist’, X-tra, Spring
Deborah Campbell, ‘The New School’, Vancouver GuestLife - 2003 Michael Turner, ‘Wall and Void’, Modern Painters, Summer
- 2002 Bill Jeffries, ‘Bystanders in Terminal City: The Street Photograph in Vancouver 1955 to 1985’, Geist, Winter
Karen Love, ‘Portraits from Vancouver’, Paris Photo Magazine International, Summer
Eleanor Heartney, ‘Ian Wallace at American Fine Arts at P.H.A.G’, Art in America, March/April
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Ian Wallace’, Artforum, February - 2001 Shayna Skarf, ‘Border Patrol’, Time Out New York, 18 November
Holland Cotter, ‘Ian Wallace: New York City’, The New York Times, 26 October
Trevor Mahovsky, ‘Radical, Bureaucratic, Melancholic, Schizophrenic: Texts as community in Vancouver’, Canadian Art, Summer
Douglas Coupland, ‘Critical Mass’, The Globe and Mail, 12 May - 2000 Blake Gopnik, ‘Masters of All They Survey’, The Globe and Mail, 28 November
Michael Scott, ‘Art Gallery Reveals Its Riches in Impressive Show (Recollect)’, The Vancouver Sun, 19 January - 1999 Adriana Barton, ‘Candid Cameras: Reflections of the city by Vancouver’s top contemporary artists’, Where Vancouver, August
- 1998 ‘Ian Wallace’s ‘Clayoquot Protest’’’, Canadian Art, Summer
- 1997 Christopher Brayshaw, ‘VIVA Art’, The Vancouver Courier, Volume 88, Number 37
Michael Scott, ‘50,000 VIVA Award goes to critic Lowndes and Painter Wallace’, The Vancouver Sun
Juan Bautista Peiró, ‘Ian Wallace’, Cimal arte internacional, Issue 48
Matthew Higgs, ‘Ian Wallace, Genesta’, Art Monthly, May - 1996 R. Ventura Melia, ‘Ian Wallace: Me interesa la relacion dialectica entre la pintura y la fotografia’, El Mercantil Valenciano, 17 November
Judith Mastai, ‘Conceptual Bogeymen: Art and the Media in the City by the Sea’, C Magazine, Issue 49, Spring - 1995 Robin Laurence, ‘Review’, The Vancouver Sun, June
- 1992 Élisabeth Lebovici, ‘Achever la peinture’, Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, Issue 40, Summer
Bruce Serafin, ‘Canada 125: The Shock of the New’, The Globe and Mail, 17 April - 1991 Gordon Lebredt, ‘Between Two Hangings’, Text, Issue 6, Fall
Scott Watson, ‘The Generic City and its Discontents’, Arts Magazine, February
Bill Jones, ‘Free Trade’, Arts Magazine, February - 1990 David Perez, ‘Ian Wallace’, Lapiz, November
Joshua Decter, ‘New York in Review’, Arts Magazine, September
Jan Avgikos, ‘Ian Wallace, Nicole Klagsbrun’, Tema Celeste, July–October - 1989 William Wood, ‘Ian Wallace: The Patient Wait’, Vanguard, September/October
Luk Lambrecht, ‘Review’, Flash Art, Summer
Luk Lambrecht, ‘Review’, Artefactum, Summer
José Lebrero Stals, ‘The Experience of an Image’, Balkon, Summer
Dolène Ainardi, ‘Ian Wallace. Maison de La Culture, Saint Étienne’, Art Press, June - 1988 Richard Rhodes, ‘Ian Wallace’, Artforum, December
Bill Jones, ‘Ian Wallace, 49th Parallel’, Flash Art, November/December
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ‘Graham, Kleyn, Wall, Wallace’, Flash Art, Issue 142, October
William Wood, ‘Ian Wallace: The Patient Wait’, Vanguard, September/October
Joshua Decter, ‘Review’, Artsmagazine, September
Robert Kleyn, ‘Art in the Era of Permanent Capitalism’, C Magazine, Issue 19, Fall; reprinted in Ian Wallace: Images, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Étienne, France
Serge Bérard, ‘Review’, Parachute, Issue 51, Summer
Scott Watson, ‘Zweimal Canada Dry: Sechs Künstler aus Vancouver’, Wolkenkratzer Art Journal, March/April
Ian Verchere, ‘Ars longa, vita brevis’, Planet of the Arts, March
Derek Simons, ‘La melancolie de l’avant-garde’, Planet of the Arts, March - 1987 John Miller, ‘Stations’, Artscribe, Issue 67, November/December
Lorne Falk and Joanne Lamoureux, ‘Stations: Tête à tête’, Vanguard, November
Peggy Gale, ‘Outsiders In’, Canadian Art, Summer
Christoph Blase, ‘Fotografie in Szene gesetzt’, Artis, June
Earl Miller, ‘Ian Wallace’, C Magazine, Issue 13, April
Linda Genereux, ‘Ian Wallace. Cold City Gallery, Toronto, November 8 to 26’, Vanguard, February/March - 1986 Elke Town, ‘We Like to Imagine’, Photo Communiqué, Fall
Bruce Serafin, ‘Glamour and Prose: Ian Wallace and Vikky Alexander’, C Magazine, Issue 10, Summer - 1983 Ellen Thompson, ‘Ian Wallace at the Or Gallery’, Vanguard, Summer
- 1982 Richard Rhodes, ‘Ian Wallace. David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, June’, Vanguard, September
- 1979 Tony Emery, ‘Ian Wallace, Vancouver Art Gallery, Sept 21–Oct 21’, Artscanada, December/January
Eric Cameron, ‘Semiology, Sensuousness and Ian Wallace’, Artforum, February - 1978 Art Perry, ‘Wallace finds field for photos in the past’, The Province, 24 January
David MacWilliam, ‘Allegorical Imperatives: Ian Wallace at the Nova Gallery’, YVR Magazine, January - 1971 Judy Williams Fraser, ‘Collage Show’, Artscanada, June
- 1970 Charlotte Townsend, ‘Photo Show’, Artscanada, June
- 1969 Bill Vazan, ‘Survey 69’, Vie des Arts, Fall
- 1968 Marguerite Pinney, ‘Duane Lunden and Ian Wallace’, Artscanada, August
- 1967 Ann Rosenberg, ‘BC ’67—Prestige’, The Vancouver Sun, 15 December
Published Writing and Works by the Artist
- 2022 Ian Wallace, ‘Maplewood Mudflats Documents’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.47: 50th Anniversary Issue 2/3
Ian Wallace, 'Photoconceptulism and Documentary Style', Sculpting Reality, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain - 2020 Ian Wallace, ‘Ian Wallace in Conversation with Scott Schuman’, Capture Photo Fest
- 2019 Ian Wallace, ‘Samuel Roy-Bois, Elspeth Pratt, Jack Jeffrey’, Canadian Art, Fall
- 2018 Ian Wallace and Scott Watson, eds., Tom Burrows, Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver Canada; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- 2015 Ian Wallace, ‘A Commentary on The Constructor (1978)’, + Que 20 ans après, Volume 17
- 2012 Ian Wallace, ‘The First Documenta, 1955’, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts: 002, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, and Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany
Ian Wallace, ‘The Corner of the Studio and El Taller: A Reflection on Two works from 1993/2000’, in The Studio, ed. Jens Hoffmann, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 2011 Ian Wallace, ‘Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914’, Artforum, December
Ian Wallace, ‘Commentary on Works of the 1970s’, in Anthology of Exhibition Essays, 2008/2009, eds. Catriona Jeffries and Charo Neville, CJPress, Vancouver - 2009 Ian Wallace, ‘Jeff Wall’, in Jeff Wall: Vancouver Art Gallery Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Ian Wallace, ‘Maplewood Mudflats Documents’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.8, Spring - 2008 Ian Wallace, ‘Notes on Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘Un coup de dés and Image/Text, 1979’’, in Un coup de Dés: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Ian Wallace, ‘Photography and the Monochrome’, in Ian Wallace: A Literature of Images, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
Ian Wallace, ‘The Monochromes of 1967 to 1968 and After’, in Anthology of Exhibition Essays 2006/2007, CJ Press, Vancouver - 2007 Ian Wallace, ‘Corner of the Studio and El Taller: A Reflection on Two Works from 1993’, in Ian Wallace: In the Studio, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Ian Wallace, ‘Denise Hawrysio and the Imprint of Engagement and Indifference’, in Denise Hawrysio: Situational Prints, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada - 2005 Ian Wallace, ‘Street Photos 1970’, in Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985, eds. Glen Lowry, Bill Jeffries and Jerry Zaslove, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, and West Coast Line, Burnaby, Canada
Ian Wallace, ‘The Frontier of the Avant-Garde’, in Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, eds. Dieter Roelstrate and Scott Watson, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium, and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Ian Wallace, ‘Canadian Photography and Territories of Difference’, in Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Kanada, ed. Marie-Josée Jean, Edition Braus, Berlin, Germany - 2004 Ian Wallace, ‘Street Photos’, Arte Contexto, Volume 4, Number 4
- 2003 Ian Wallace, ‘Kelly Wood’, in Kelly Wood: The Continuous Garbage Project: 1998ˆ2003, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2001 Ian Wallace, ‘Shelagh Keeley and the Idea of Drawing’, in Shelagh Keeley, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada
- 2000 Ian Wallace, ‘Tom Burrows: How We Mean What We Say’, in Tom Burrows, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
- 1999 Ian Wallace, ‘Vikky Alexander: The Mirage of the Sublime’, in Vikky Alexander: Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Ian Wallace, ‘Kelly Wood’, art/text, Issue 65, May–July - 1996 Ian Wallace, ‘Back to School’, Canadian Art, Fall
- 1995 Ian Wallace, ‘Clayoquot Protest’, in Notion of Conflict: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; reprinted in Clayoquot Protest, Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON, and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
- 1994 Ian Wallace, ‘Corner of the Studio (1993) and El Taller (1993): A Description and Reflection upon Two Recent Works’, in Ian Wallace: Corner of the Studio/El Taller, Robayera Sala de Arte, Miengo, Spain
- 1993 Ian Wallace, ‘Contemporary Canadian Photography and Territories of Difference’, La Mois de la Photo, Vox Populi, Montreal, Canada
- 1992 Ian Wallace, ‘The Idea of the University’, in Ian Wallace: The Idea of the University, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; reprinted in Spanish in Arte: Proyectos e Ideas, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, Issue 1, November
Ian Wallace, ‘Photography and the Monochrome: An Apologia, an Exegesis, an Interrogation’, in Càmeres Indiscretes, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica and Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - 1991 Ian Wallace, ‘Photoconceptualism in Vancouver’, in Thirteen Essays on Contemporary Canadian Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
- 1990 Ian Wallace, ‘Hommage a Mondrian’, in Hommage a Mondrian, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Ian Wallace, ‘Las Pinturas de Valencia, 1990’, in Las Pinturas de Valencia, Galería Temple, Valencia, Spain - 1987 Ian Wallace, ‘Image and Alter-Image II: Roy Arden’, Vanguard, Volume 16, Number 1, February–March
Ian Wallace, ‘The Megapolis of Modern Art’, in Artropolis, Vancouver, BC
Ian Wallace, ‘A Vanitas in Motion’, in Robert Kleyn, Canadian Cultural Institute, Rome, Italy - 1986 Ian Wallace, ‘Ricochet’, in Ricochet, Sala Uno, Rome, Italy
Ian Wallace, ‘Image and Alter-Image: Ken Lum’, Vanguard, December/January - 1984 Ian Wallace, ‘Jeff Wall’s Transparencies’, in Jeff Wall: Transparencies, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ian Wallace, Works of conceptual art from the collection of David Bellman exhibited at Or Gallery, Vancouver, August 1984, Or Gallery, Vancouver - 1983 Ian Wallace, ‘Canada: Anyone, Anywhere, Anything’, Flash Art, March
Ian Wallace, ‘Painting in Spite of Art: David MacWilliam’, Vanguard, December/January
Ian Wallace, ‘Dan Graham at the David Bellman Gallery, Toronto’, Vanguard, September
Ian Wallace, ‘Geoffrey James at Coburg Gallery, Vancouver’, Vanguard, September - 1982 Ian Wallace, ‘Literature: Transparent and Opaque’, in Concrete Poetry, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; reprinted in The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature, ed. Richard Kostelanetz, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, USA
Ian Wallace, ‘Jeff Wall’, in Jeff Wall, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
Ian Wallace, ‘The Era of Judgement: The 7th Documenta’, Vanguard, December/January - 1981 Ian Wallace, ‘Revisionism and its Discontents’, Vanguard, September
- 1979 Ian Wallace and Russell Keziere, ‘Bruce Nauman Interviewed’, Vanguard, February
- 1978 Ian Wallace, ‘Glen Toppings Remembered’, YVR, Issue 2, May
- 1969 Ian Wallace, ‘Literature: Transparent and Opaque’, in Concrete Poetry, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Teaching Appointments
- 1972 – 1998 Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design), Vancouver
- 1970 – 1987 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Awards
- 2009 Molson Prize, Canada Council for the Arts
- 2004 Governor General’s Award for Visual Arts
- 1997 VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, Vancouver