Steve McQueen
Born in London, 1969
Lives and works in London and Amsterdam
Education Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, 1994 Goldsmith's College, London, 1993 Chelsea School of Art, London, 1990
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Steve McQueen: End Credits, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL Ashes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England End Credits, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Static, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Ashes, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA
2016 Open Plan: Steve McQueen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Steve McQueen, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2014 Ashes, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England Drumroll, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA Steve McQueen, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan Deadpan, Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, Ireland
2013 Steve McQueen, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Steve McQueen, Rayners Lane, xavierllaboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
2012 Blues Before Sunrise, Stedelijk at Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands Steve McQueen, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2010 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY Queen and Country, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
2009 British Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Steve McQueen, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada Queen and Country, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; travelled to: Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough, England
2008 Pursuit, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England Queen and Country, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, London and Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2007 Queen and Country, Imperial War Museum, London, England Queen and Country, Manchester Central Library, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and the Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England Running Thunder, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England Gravesend/Unexploded, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Gravesend, Renaissance Society, Chicago IL
2006 Caresses, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2005 Catwalkvideos, Forum Kultur and Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
2004 Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona, Spain Once Upon a Time, South London Gallery, London, England Into This World, Thomas Dane, London, England
2003 Speaking in Tongues, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2002 Carib's Leap/Western Deep, Artangel Project, St. Martin's Lane, London, England FOCUS: Steve McQueen, Art Institute, Chicago IL Western Deep, Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany (selected by Okwui Enwezor)
2001 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY Cold Breath, Delfina Projects, London, England Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela Barrage, DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1999 ICA, London, England Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Four Projected Images, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York NY INOVA, Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee WI
1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
Group Exhibitions
2018 Forthcoming: Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2017 Forthcoming: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mu.ZEE), Ostende, Belgium Truth: 24 frames-per-second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX Corners / In Between, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, Italy The Sea is History: Art and Black Atlantic Cultures/ A Symposium around the work of Frank Bowling, (Screening), Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany O Superman to Girls Tricky, I Am Here, Where Are You: On Vocal Performance, Bergn Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England; travelling to: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Brimingham, England Disruptive Bodies, The Met Breuer, New York NY Collection on Display: Communities, Rules and Rituals, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Mondialité, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium The Restless Earth, La Triennale in Milan, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2016 Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England Inside: Artangel in Reading Prison, Reading, England Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN Erika Hoffman-Koenige Collection, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY Drumroll in conjunction with Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
2015 The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding and Decoding, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Images that Speak, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN La Répétition, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France Fuego blanco – La colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel, Museo Nacioanl Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Italy
2014 Meer Macht (More Power), Museum de Fundatie, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle, The Netherlands Black Eye, 57 Walker Street, New York NY Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since the 1950s, Mudam, Luxembourg Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since the 1950s, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Fail Better- Moving Images, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany EXPO 1: New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York NY El Mañana Ya Estuvo Aqui, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2012 What We See, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2011 Migrations, Tate Britain, London, England
2010 Static, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Sounds and Visions: Artists' Films and Videos from Europe, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
2008 International 08, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
2006 The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England Die Neue Kunsthalle III, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2005 Film: Illusion and Imagination in der Kunst, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany En Attente, Forum D'art Contemporain, Luxembourg Atlantic and Bukarest, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei City, Taipei WOW (The Work of the Work), Henry Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Time Clash, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2004/5 Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England 2004 Fast Forward - Media Art, Sammlung Goetz, ZKMI Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany A Century of Artists' film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, England 20/20 Vision, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Stranger Than Fiction, Abersytwyth Arts Centre, Abersytwyth, Wales
2003 50th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Video Acts Contemporary, Art Centre MOMA, New York NY Recepted Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York NY
2001 Double Vision, Leipzig, Germany Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
2000 Stimuli, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands Beaute, Avignon, France Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
1999 Infra-slim spaces, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL Self Portrait, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada Geschichten des Augenblicks, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA The Space here is everywhere, Villa Merkel/Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston TX Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy Turner Prize exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England
1998 La conscienza luccicante. Dalla videoarte all'arte interattiva, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Wounds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Ironisch/Ironic, Museum für Gegenwart Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
1997 La Collection, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France infra-slim spaces, The Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
1996 Spellbound, Hayward Gallery, London, England Life/Live, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal Timing, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 X/Y, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France The British Art Show, Manchester, England Mirage: Enigma of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1994
Acting Out: The Body in Video, Then and Now, Royal College of Art, London, England
Public Collections
Met Breuer Collection, New York NY Arts Council Collection, England Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanual Hoffman-Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland K21 Kunstammling Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany Ständehaus, Dusseldorf, Germany Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal Tate Britain, London, England MUDAM-Muséed'Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, England
Awards
2013 Camera d'Or and International Federation of Critics award, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia Academy Award – Best Picture Golden Globe – Best Drama Picture BAFTA – Best Film
2008 BAFTA – Outstanding Debut by a British Director
2003 Official War Artist (Iraq), Imperial War Museum, London, England
2002 OBE
1999 Turner Prize, London, England
1998 DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1996 ICA Futures Award, London, England