Steve McQueen

Selected Biography

Born in London, 1969
Lives and works in London and Amsterdam
Chelsea School of Art, London, 1989-90
Goldsmith's College, London, 1990-93
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, 1993-94

Awards

Camera d'Or and International Federation of Critics award, Cannes Film Festival, 2008
Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival, 2008
Official War Artist (Iraq), Imperial War Museum, 2003
OBE, 2002
Turner Prize, 1999
DAAD, Berlin, 1998
ICA Futures Award, 1996

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

British Pavilion

53rd Venice Biennale

Queen and Country

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough

2008

Queen and Country

Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, London and Liverpool Biennial

Pursuit

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

2007

Running Thunder

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Gravesend/Unexploded

52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (commissioned by Robert Storr for the Italian Pavilion)

Queen and Country

Imperial War Museum, London

Gravesend

Renaissance Society, Chicago

Queen and Country

Central Library, Manchester, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and the Manchester International Festival

2006

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

Caresses

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

2005

Catwalkvideos

Forum Kultur and Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany

Prada Foundation, Milan

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

2004

Once Upon a Time

South London Gallery, London

Into This World

Thomas Dane, London

Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona

2003

Speaking in Tongues

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.)

Museu Serralves, Porto

2002

Carib's Leap/Western Deep

Artangel Project, St. Martin's Lane, London (cat.)

Western Deep

Documenta XI, Kassel (selected by Okwui Enwezor)

FOCUS: Steve McQueen

Art Institute, Chicago

2001

Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (cat.)

Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

2000

Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Cold Breath

Delfina Projects, London

Sala Mendoza, Caracas

Barrage

DAAD, Berlin

1999

ICA, London (cat. texts by Michael Newman, Robert Storr and Okwui Enwezor)

Kunsthalle, Zürich

1998

Four Projected Images

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

1997

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Portikus, Frankfurt (cat.)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee

1996

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

International 08

Liverpool Biennale

7th Gwangju Biennale

Gwangju, Korea

Wizard of Oz

CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco

2006

The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe

Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Die Neue Kunsthalle III

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2005

Film: Illusion and Imagination in der Kunst

Staatliche Kunsthalle, Germany

En Attente

Forum D'art Contemporain, Luxenbourg

Atlantic and Bukarest

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Do You Believe in Reality?

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

WOW (The Work of the Work)

Henry Art Gallery, Washington

Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism

Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Time Clash

Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralues, Portugal

2004/5

Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism

Whitechapel, London UK

2004

Fast Forward - Media Art

Sammlung Goetz, ZKMI Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Germany

A Century of Artists' film in Britain

Tate Britain

20/20 Vision

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Stranger Than Fiction

Abersytwyth Arts Centre, Wales

2003

50th International Venice Biennale, Italy

Video Acts

Contemporary Art Centre MOMA, New York

Recepted Nature

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

2002

Documenta 11

Kassel (cat.)

Moving Pictures

Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York

2001

Double Vision

Leipzig

Public Offerings

Los Angeles

2000

Stimuli

Witte de With, Rotterdam

Beaute

Avignon (cat.)

Mirror's Edge

BildMuseet, Umea and tour (cat.)

1999

Infra-slim spaces

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Self Portrait

Mercer Union, Toronto

Geschichten des Augenblicks

Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich (cat.)

Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Space here is everywhere

Villa Merkel/Bahnwärterhaus

Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston

Common People

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene

Turner Prize exhibition

Tate Gallery, London (cat.)

1998

La conscienza luccicante. Dalla videoarte all'arte interattiva

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

Wounds

Moderna Museet, Stockholm. (cat.)

Ironisch/Ironic

Museum für Gegenwart Kunst, Zürich (cat.)

1997

La Collection, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain, Rochechouart

infra-slim spaces

The Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev

2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg

Documenta 10, Kassel (cat.)

1996

Spellbound

Hayward Gallery, London (cat., ill., text by Martha Gever)

Life/Live

ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon (cat. ill., text by Jon Thompson)

Timing

De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam

1995

X/Y

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

The British Art Show, Manchester and tour (cat., ill.)

Mirage: Enigma of Race, Difference and Desire

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (cat., ill.)

1994

Acting Out: The Body in Video, Then and Now

Royal College of Art, London (cat., ill.)

Collections

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples

Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanual Hoffman-Stiftung, Basel

K21 Kunstammling Nordrhein-Westfalen

Ständehaus, Dusseldorf

Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal

Tate Britain

London

MUDAM-Muséed'Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

Awards

2009

Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer

BAFTA Awards, London

Breakthrough British Filmmaker

London Critics Circle Film Awards

2008

Douglas Hickox Award

British Independent Film Awards, London

Sydney Film Prize

Sydney Film Festival

Diesel Discovery Award

Toronto International Film Festival

Gucci Group Award

Venice, Italy

Gold Hugo

Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago

Camera d'Or

Cannes Film Festival, France

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award

European Discovery of the Year

European Film Awards, Copenhagen

2003

Imperial War Museum Artist

2002

OBE

1999

The Turner Prize

1998

DAAD

Berlin

1996

ICA Futures Award

1996