Career
Wallace has been an influential figure in the development of an internationally acknowledged photographic and conceptual art practice in Vancouver since 1965. Wallace has exhibited painting and photography nationally and internationally since 1965. He is known for juxtaposing monochrome painting and photography in a way that problematizes the differences between the two mediums, referencing aesthetic and social issues through themes of the studio, the museum and the street.
Ian Wallace is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.
Yvon Lambert, Paris; Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels. And Hauser & Wirth, New York, London and Zurich
Wallace taught Art History at the University of British Columbia from 1967 to 1970, and then at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) from 1972 to 1998, where he taught a contemporary art course titled Art Now that was one of the earliest to introduce the art of the recent past into the art history curriculum.
As a professor, he has had a significant role in shaping the contemporary art scene.