NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced that Jeff Wall has joined the gallery.

Jeff Wall is one of the foremost artists working in the field of photography worldwide. Since the 1970s he has redefined the possibilities of the medium, depicting modern life in full awareness of its great contradictions, and with a deep knowledge of the traditions of art.

Larry Gagosian says "I am very pleased to be working with this great artist, whose work I have admired for many years."

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). Organized jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition is co-curated by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA, and Neal Benezra, Director, SFMOMA. It will be on view in MoMA’s Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery on the sixth floor from February 25 through May 14, 2007, after which it will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago (June 30–September 23, 2007) and conclude its tour at SFMOMA (October 27, 2007–January 27, 2008).