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Ian Hugh Wallace, artist (b at Shoreham, England 25 Aug 1943). He moved to Canada in 1944 and is an influential Vancouver artist and teacher known for his conceptual art, painting, photographic murals and critical writings. He received his MA in art history from the University of British Columbia in 1968 (thesis on Piet Mondrian) where he was an Instructor (1967-70). He has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design since 1972.
Wallace is the senior member of a group of Vancouver artists that includes Jeff WALL (whom Wallace instructed at UBC), Rodney GRAHAM, Stan Douglas, Ken Lum and others who have made international reputations making art that attempts to turn the concerns of conceptual art back toward earlier modernist impulses, such as the depiction of social reality and ideological contradictions, in forms that advance the theoretical discussion of art. Wallace's work with photo-murals and texts from 1973 to 1979 culminated in an exhibition at the VANCOUVER ART GALLERY in 1979. These works revealed an interest in society from the point of view of the artist-flâneur and the melancholic artist-dandy, although the presentation was ironic and paradoxical. In 1980 he began to integrate painting and photography. It was with this work that he began to show in Germany, France, Spain and the United States. Taking the lead from Andy Warhol's diptychs of monochrome and photo-silkscreen panels, Wallace works within the dialogue between the theoretical exploration of painting (monochrome as the end point of painting) and the possibilities of representing society. Wallace's work has been in many important European exhibitions since 1980. He was given a retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1988 and in 2004 received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. In 2009, he was awarded the Molson Prize for "outstanding lifetime achievements and ongoing contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of Canada." He is represented by galleries in New York, Cologne, Vancouver and Valenciennes.
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