Ian Wallace (artist)

Ian Wallace (born 1943) is one of the pioneering forces behind Vancouver's establishment as an unlikely capital city of the 1970s globalized conceptual art scene. Trained as an art historian and practicing as a contemporary art history and art theory professor for many years in the seventies and eighties, Wallace was instrumental in developing the city's emblematic brand of so-called 'photo-conceptualism' or 'post-conceptual photography', made world-famous by his most celebrated 'student' Jeff Wall.Wallace and Wall also teamed up in Vancouver's short-lived no-wave band UJ3RK5, which also featured the musical skills of another of the city's many gifted artist-sons, Rodney Graham. Like so many of his colleagues and travel companions, Ian Wallace continues to live, work and exhibit in Vancouver.