Biography
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
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
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
Steve McQueen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Steve McQueen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York.
Queen and Country: A Project by Steve McQueen, National Portrait Gallery, London
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
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
For Queen and Country, A Commission by Steve McQueen, Manchester Central Library, England
Running Thunder, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Caresses, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Steve McQueen, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
South London Gallery, London, England
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Into This World, Thomas Dane, London
ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Tate Egg Live, Tate Britain, London, England (one-time performance)
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
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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
Steve McQueen, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Four Projected Images, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois