The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor

Jeff Wall (Canadian, b. 1946) is widely recognized as one of the most adventurous and inventive artists of his generation. Since 1978, he has worked principally with large color photographs presented as transparencies in light boxes. His unique pictorial universe ranges from gritty realism to elaborate fantasy, drawing upon an unusually broad range of sources that include nineteenth-century painting, Conceptual art, narrative cinema, and modernist photography. The major retrospective Jeff Wall comprises 40 works that span Wall’s career from 1978 to the present. It presents a robust assembly of ambitious and celebrated pictures, including Picture for Women, 1979, Mimic, 1982, The Storyteller, 1986, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993, Restoration, 1993, and After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, 1999-2000. Five recent pictures will be shown for the first time in North America, including a large multi-figure composition titled In front of a nightclub, 2006.