Biografie

Steve McQueen (born London 1969) is a British artist and filmmaker. In 1996 he was the recipient of an ICA Futures Award, in 1998 he won a DAAD artist’s scholarship to Berlin and in 1999, as well as exhibiting at the ICA and at the Kunsthalle in Zürich, he won the Turner Prize. In 2003, McQueen was appointed Official War Artist for the Iraq war by the Imperial War Museum and produced the poignant and controversial project Queen and Country, which is still ongoing. He has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Museum of Modern Art, Documenta X and XI, and, as well as exhibiting in numerous Venice Biennales, he represented Britain in the Biennale in 2009. His work is held in museum collections around the world, and a retrospective of his work was recently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Schaulager in Basel. He was awarded the OBE in 2002 and the CBE in 2011.

In 2008, McQueen’s critically-acclaimed first feature, Hunger, won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and countless other international prizes. His second feature, Shame, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, won two Best Film awards when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, as well as winning Michael Fassbender the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It is the second highest grossing NC-17-rated movie in US history. His third film, 12 Years A Slave, was adapted from a memoir by Solomon Northup. Released in 2013, the film boasted a cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. The film has received numerous prizes, most notably winning three Academy Awards including the award for Best Picture. McQueen is the first black director or producer to receive this honour.

Steve McQueen lives and works in Amsterdam and London.

Selected solo exhibitions

2016

Steve McQueen, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

Open Plan: Steve McQueen, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Steve McQueen: Cold Breath, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan

Steve McQueen – Drumroll, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA

Ashes, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2013

Steve McQueen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2012

Steve McQueen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2010

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York.

Queen and Country: A Project by Steve McQueen, National Portrait Gallery, London

2009

British Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Queen and Country, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England

Steve McQueen, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

Steve McQueen – Gravesend/Unexploded, DE PONT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Steve McQueen: Girls, Tricky, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2008

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2007

For Queen and Country, A Commission by Steve McQueen, Manchester Central Library, England

Running Thunder, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2006

Caresses, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2005

Steve McQueen, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2004

South London Gallery, London, England

Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Into This World, Thomas Dane, London

2003

ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Tate Egg Live, Tate Britain, London, England (one-time performance)

2002

FOCUS: Steve McQueen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Steve McQueen: Caribs’ Leap/Western Deep, ArtAngel at Lumiere, London, England / Fundacio de Serralves, Porto, Portugal / Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England / Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona, Spain.

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2001

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2000

Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela

Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa

Barrage, DAAD, Berlin, Germany

Cold Breath, Delfina Projects, London, England

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1999

Steve McQueen, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

1998

Four Projected Images, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

1997

Deadpan, The Museum of Modern Art, Project Room, New York

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1996

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

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