STEVE McQUEEN
Born: London, England, 1969
Lives and works in London and Amsterdam.
Education:
Chelsea School of Art, London, England, 1989-90
Goldsmith College, London, England, 1990-93
Tisch School of Arts, New York University, New York, New York, 1993-94
Awards:
Black Perspectives Tribute Honoree. 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, 2016 BFI Fellowship, BFI London Film Festival, 2016
Johannes Vermeer Prize, The Netherlands, 2016
European Achievement in World Cinema prize, European Film Awards, 2014 Media Hero Award, Andrew Goodman Foundation, 2014
Harvard University, W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, 2014 MoMA Party in the Garden Honoree, 2014
Best Picture, Academy Awards, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave) BAFTA Best Film Award, 2014 (for ‘12 Years a Slave’) Human Rights First Award, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) BAFTA Carl Foreman award, 2012 (for ‘Hunger’)
AFI Award, 2014
Black Reel Award, 2014
Image Award, Outstanding Director in a Motion Picture, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Toronto Film Critics Association Award, Best First Feature, 2014
ALFS Award, London Critics Circle Film Awards, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) Vancouver Film Critics Circle, Best Director, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) PGA Award, 2014
People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Independent Spirit Award, Best Director, 2014 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a
Slave’)
Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) Hollywood Breakthrough Award, Hollywood Film Festival, 2013 (for ’12 Years
a Slave’)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Sierra Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
Satelite Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award, Best Director, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Director, 2013
Bronze Horse, Stockholm Film Festival, 2013 (for ’12 Years a Slave’) Black Reel Award, 2012
British Independent Film Awards, Douglas Hickox Award, 2011 (for ‘Hunger’)
Gold Hugo Award, Best Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 2011
Best Directional Debut, Stockholm Film Festival, 2011 (for ‘Hunger’)
Lino Brocka Award, Cinemanila International Film Festival, 2009 (for ‘Hunger’) Evening Standard British Film Award, Best Film, 2009 (for ‘Hunger’)
Best First Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 2009 (for ‘Hunger’)
Coup de Coeur, Dinard British Film Festival, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
European Discovery of the Year, European Film Awards, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Golden Hitchcock Award, Le Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Young Jury Award, Geneva Cinema Tout Ecran, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’) Kingfisher Award, Ljubijana International Film Festival, 2008 (for ’12 Years a
Slave’)
New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Tallinan Black Nights Film Festival, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Diesel Discovery Award, Toronto International Film Festival, 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
FIPRESCI Prize/CinemAvvenire Award/Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival, 2011 (for ‘Shame’)
Gucci Group Annual Award for Artist in Film, Venice Film Festival 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
In the Spirit of Freedom Award, Jerusalem Film Festival 2008 (for ‘Hunger’)
Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival 2008
Camera d’Or Prize (for ‘Hunger’), Cannes Film Festival, 2008 International Film Critics Prize (for ‘Hunger’), Cannes Film Festival, 2008 OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), London,
England, 2002
Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England, 1999 DAAD Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany, 1999 ICA Futures Award, 1996
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Steve McQueen: End Credits, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
Remember Me, Eenwerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Steve McQueen: Ashes, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester
End Credits, The Art Institute of Chicago Static, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Ashes, ICA Boston, Massachusetts
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, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
Steve McQueen, Rayners Lane, xavierllaboulbenne, Berlin
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.
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Truth: 24 frames-per-second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
O Superman to Girls Tricky, I Am Here, Where Are You: On Vocal Performance, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Mondialité, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
The Restless Earth. La Triennale in Milan. Produced by Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Disruptive Bodies, The Met Breuer, New York
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics. IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland
Collection on Display: Communities, Rules and Rituals. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Erika Hoffmann- 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, New York; Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Master of Light - Robby Müller. EYE Filmmuseum. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blackness in Abstraction. Pace Gallery, New York
Erika Hoffmann-Koenige Collection. Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
INSIDE. Artists and Writers in Reading Prison. Reading, Berkshire, UK. Commissioned and produced by Artangel
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding and Decoding. Museu Coleçāo Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
Let There Be More Light, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Animality. Marian Goodman Gallery London
2015
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding and Decoding, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Images that Speak, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
La Répétition, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Fuego blanco - La colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Encounters and Collision, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2014
Meer Macht (More Power), Museum de Fundatie, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Black Eye, curated by Nicola Vassell, Spring Studios, 54 Crosby Street, New York Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since the 1950s, Mudam Luxembourg Roll up, Roll up!, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since the 1950s, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2013
EXPO 1: New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
El Mañana Ya Estuvo Aqui, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
2012
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium (through 2013)
Migrations – Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles (through 2013)
El Mañana Ya Estuvo Aqui, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (through 2013)
2011
You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris Goetz Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany Found in Translation, Guggenheim Museum, New York The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Streetlife und Homestories – Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz,
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
BLOCKBUSTER: Cinema for Exhibitions, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Universitario de Arte
Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Shame, Venice Film Festival; Toronto Film Festival Zeit zu handeln!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
2010
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand–Duc Jean,
Luxembourg
Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund
Trailer Park, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
29° Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
ARTE Y POLITICA : CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS, Museo de
Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán
VIDEO XXI. Colección Lemaître, Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru
2009
Sounds and Visions: Artists’ Films and Videos from Europe, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Museet for samtidskunst), Oslo, Norway
Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Traces of Time, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Works in the Donna and Howard Stone Film, Video and New Media
Gallery, Modern Wing, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia,
Venice
2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Wizard of Oz, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
Todas as histórias, Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Queen and Country, St. Georges Hall, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK; Royal Festival Hall, London; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Intimacy, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia
Risk Zones, Caixa Forum, Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
2007
52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal,
Vertigo, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Curated by Linda Norden,
Electrones Libres: A Selection of Works from the Lemaître Collection, Tabacalera Donosita, San Sebastian
2006
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney,
Warwickshire, England
2005
Double Feature, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2004
Die Neue Kunsthalle III, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
WOW (The Work of the Work), Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Faces in the Crowd, Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel, London, England
2003-04
Fast Forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Outlook, Technopolis, Benaki Museum and The Factory, Athens, Greece
Utopia Station Poster Project, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Video Acts: Single Channel Work from the Collection of Pamela and
Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2001
Public Offerings, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California
Mirror’s Edge, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
2000
Beauté in Fabula, Palais des Papes D’Avignon, Avignon, France Mirror’s Edge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Unhoused, Antiquo Collegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexcio
1999
Kunst mit art with architecture, Villa Merkel und Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen, Germany
Geschichten des Augenblicks, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich,
Germany
infra-slim spaces, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of
Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Retrace your Steps: Remember Tomorrow, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, England
Mirror’s Edge, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden.
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy
Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England
1998
Ironisch/Ironic, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland.
Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wounds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
Timing, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Life/Live, ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1995
Mirage: Enigma of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
The British Art Show 4, Manchester, England.
X/Y, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1994
Acting Out: The Body in Video, Then and Now, Royal College of Art, London, England
