Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen is a guest on this week’s episode of River Cafe Table 4. To hear his conversation with restaurateur Ruthie Rogers, and Steve’s memories of London markets, okra and chicken stew, please click here.

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59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new site-specific works commissioned by NEON will be featured in the group exhibition Portals, opening on 11 June in the renovated spaces of the former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, as part of the collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and NEON.

Steve McQueen: Ashes

Turner Contemporary, Margate, England

Exhibition dates: 18 May - 12 September 2021

Ashes (2002–2015) is a two-channel video installation by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. It is composed of footage filmed by McQueen over ten years, on two separate visits to the Caribbean island of Grenada — a former French and British colony that achieved independence in 1974.

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Renowned filmmaker and video artist, Steve McQueen will speak about his interdisciplinary practice across the art world and in mainstream cinema, focusing on the social, psychological, and political traumas thematized in his work. 

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (GMT-7)

Register here to join. 

A+D Thursdays is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. The series exposes students and the public to a range of creative forms across the visual arts, performance, literature, film, and design. It introduces students and the community to our campus’s major museums, presenters, and academic departments, as well as to select Bay Area arts organizations and regional partners.

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Steve McQueen: London Film Festival

Steve McQueen's Mangrove, one of five films that make up the Small Axe anthology, will open the 64th edition of the British Film Institute London Film Festival, from 7 October 2020. 

The film will broadcast on BBC One and Amazon Prime Video this fall.

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Steve MᶜQueen Reopens at Tate Modern 

Thomas Dane Gallery is pleased to announce the reopening of Steve MᶜQueen at Tate Modern from Friday 7 August, with extended viewing through 6 September 2020. 

The exhibition joins the three existing Tate Modern visitor routes now available to pre-book online here. 

This major exhibition coincides with MᶜQueen’s Year 3, recently extended at Tate Britain until 31 January 2021, an epic portrait of London’s Year 3 pupils created through a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. Entry is free and timed tickets can be booked here. 

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Steve McQueen: Year 3 Extension, Tate Britain 

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 exhibition at Tate Britain will be extended through 31 January 2021. ⁣⁣

Using the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, this vast artwork offers a glimpse of London’s future: a hopeful portrait of a generation to come. Steve McQueen invited every Year 3 pupil in the capital to be photographed and brought these images together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of young faces at a milestone moment in their development.⁣
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Steve McQueen Year 3 is a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. 

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Steve McQueen: Live Online Conversation with Artangel Co-Director James Lingwood

Monday, 4 May, 7pm BST

Steve MᶜQueen will be joined by Artangel Co-Director James Lingwood to discuss his work with Artangel over the past twenty years. There will be a live audience Q&A towards the end of the conversation.

The discussion will centre on McQueen’s collaborations with Artangel over the past two decades: Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep filmed in Grenada and South Africa and premiered in 2002, Weight, a work made for Artangel’s exhibition Inside at Reading Prison in 2016, and Year 3, an epic portrait of London’s 7- and 8-year-olds presented across the city last year — a collaboration between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. 

Viewers are encouraged to post questions prior to and during the conversation via YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using #ArtangelIsOpen. These will be collated remotely and a selection posed by James Lingwood during the audience Q&A section.

Watch the conversation live here at 7pm BST on Monday 4 May

Steve MᶜQueen: End Credits at Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts

Bachlechnerstraße 46, Innsbruck 
Exhibition dates: 7-22 March 2020 

Opening hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-7pm

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Steve MᶜQueen: In conversation with Paul Gilroy 

Steve MᶜQueen will be joined in conversation by Professor Paul Gilroy from University College London. The conversation will be chaired by Clara Kim, The Daskalopoulos Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. 

Monday, 17 February 

6:30-8:00pm 

Starr Cinema

Tate Modern

Bankside
London

SE1 9TG

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Steve MᶜQueen: Tate Modern 

This is the first major exhibition of Steve MᶜQueen's work in London since he won the Turner Prize in 1999. It features 14 major works spanning film, photography and sculpture, including his first film shot on a Super 8 camera, Exodus 1992/97, and the recent End Credits 2012–ongoing, MᶜQueen’s homage to the African-American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, which is on show for the first time in the UK. Spanning two decades of his career, the exhibition will reveal how MᶜQueen’s pioneering approaches to filmmaking have expanded the ways in which artists work with the medium. 

Exhibition dates: 13 February - 11 May 2020 
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Steve MᶜQueen will be in conversation with Paul Gilroy at Tate Modern. 
Monday 17 February 2020, 6:30-8:00pm 
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The exhibition coincides with Steve MᶜQueen: Year 3 at Tate Britain.
Exhibition dates: 12 November 2019 - 3 May 2020 
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Steve McQueen: Artist Talk, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Steve McQueen will be in conversation with Jasper Sharp. Since January 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum has been inviting leading figures from the world of Modern and Contemporary art to spend time at the museum and speak publicly about their responses to it.

Monday 25 November 2019

7:00pm 

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Maria-Theresien-Platz

1010 Wien

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Steve MᶜQueen Year 3, Tate Britain

The installation of Steve MᶜQueen Year 3 opens today at Tate Britain. On display are 1,504 of London's primary schools with Year 3 pupils – including State, Independent, Faith and Special schools, Pupil Referral Units and home educated children. The 76,146 pupils photographed in 3,128 class photographs come together as an immersive installation at Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries.

Exhibition dates: 12 November 2019 - 3 May 2020
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Artangel's outdoor exhibition of over 600 billboards continues across London until 18 November 2019. 
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Steve MᶜQueen Year 3 is a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction

Steve MᶜQueen Year 3, Artangel across London

Steve MᶜQueen Year 3 launches today with Artangel's outdoor exhibition of 613 billboards—on roadsides, railways and underground stations—across London's 33 boroughs. To view an interactive map of the billboard locations click here. 

The outdoor project will be followed by Year 3, a large-scale installation opening at Tate Britain next week. 

Exhibition dates: 12 November 2019 - 3 May 2020 

Outdoor exhibition dates: 4 - 18 November 2019 

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Steve MᶜQueen Year 3 is a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction

Image: Steve MᶜQueen Year 3. A partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. © Steve MᶜQueen and Tate. Courtesy of Artangel. Billboard photographed by Theo Christelis.

Steve MᶜQueen Year 3, Tate Britain

This vast new art work will be one of the most ambitious visual portraits of citizenship ever undertaken, in one of the world’s largest and most diverse cities.

Explored through the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, Steve MᶜQueen, together with Tate, Artangel and A New Direction, invited every Year 3 primary school class in London to be photographed. These class photos will be brought together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of Year 3 schoolchildren in a milestone year in their development.

Tate Britain 

Exhibition dates: 12 November 2019 - 3 May 2020 
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Steve MᶜQueen Year 3, Artangel across London

Artangel will stage an outdoor exhibition spanning London’s 33 boroughs, giving the public a glimpse of the future of their city.

Exhibition dates: 4 November - 18 November 2019 
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Steve MᶜQueen Year 3 is a partnership between Tate, Artangel, and A New Direction

Image: © Tate 2019

Anthea Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Hurvin Anderson, Steve McQueen: Get Up, Stand Up, Now, Somerset House, London

A major new exhibition celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond.

West Wing Galleries

Somerset House

Strand

London

12 June - 15 September 2019

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Steve McQueen: Tate Year 3 Project 

Calling all Year 3 primary school classes in London. To take part in Steve McQueen's landmark collective portrait sign up here: schools.tateyear3project.org.uk/register.

1,500 primary schools in London have already signed-up for this historic and monumental artwork. This portrait of a generation, produced by Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist Steve McQueen, will be exhibited at Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries in November 2019. ⁣
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To realise Year 3 as a true testament of London's diversity and a document of the city's future, we encourage as many schools to participate as possible. Need to register? Know a school who should? Share the link with friends, colleagues, family, and sign-up today. ⁣
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Deadline to register is Friday 5th April!

Tate Britain

Millbank
London SW1P 4RG

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Steve McQueen: Soundtrack of America, The Shed 

Soundtrack of America opens The Shed with a five-night concert series celebrating the influence of African American music on contemporary culture with performances by emerging musicians. Conceived and directed by Steve McQueen, Soundtrack traces a musical “family tree” of spirituals and blues, jazz and gospel, R&B, rock and roll, house, hip hop, and trap that has inspired a new generation of artists who continue to develop that legacy. 

The Shed

West 30th Street between
10th and 11th Avenues
New York

5 - 14 April 2019 

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Steve McQueen: Tate Modern 

This exhibition will bring together the immersive video and film installations he has made since 2000. It will include large-scale video installations including Caribs’ Leap/Western Deep 2002, alongside recent films such as Ashes 2002–15, as well as the premiere of new work.

The exhibition will coincide with Steve McQueen: Year 3 at Tate Britain 

Tate Modern 

Bankside
London SE1 9TG

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Steve McQueen: Year 3 Project at Tate Britain 

Explored through the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, Steve McQueen, together with Tate, Artangel and A New Direction, invites every Year 3 primary school class in London to be photographed. The class photos will be brought together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of Year 3 schoolchildren in a milestone year in their development. 

Running in parallel to the exhibition at Tate Britain, Artangel will stage an outdoor exhibition spanning London’s 33 boroughs, giving the public a glimpse of the future of their city.

Tate Britain

Duveen Galleries

Millbank

London SW1P 4RG

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If you are a teacher at a London primary school, you can sign your Year 3 class up to be part of this giant collective portrait.

Sign-up here

Steve McQueen: Year 3 Project

Tate Britain, London

November 2019

This vast new artwork will be one of the most ambitious visual portraits of citizenship ever undertaken, in one of the world's largest and most diverse cities. 

Explored through the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, Steve McQueen, together with Tate, Artangel and A New Direction, will invite every Year 3 primary school class in London to be photographed. The class photos will be brought together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of Year 3 school children in a milestone year in their development. 

'There's an urgency to reflect on who we are and our future [...] to have a visual reflection on the people who make this city work. I think it's important and in some ways urgent.' - Steve McQueen

Running in parallel to the exhibition at Tate Britain, Artangel will stage an outdoor exhibition spanning London's 33 boroughs, giving the public a glimpse of the future of their city. 

Further information

If you are a teacher at a London primary school, you can sign your Year 3 class up to be part of this giant collective portrait.

Sign up here

Artists for Artangel

Featuring Josè Damasceno, Michael Landy, Steve McQueen and Paul Pfeiffer

Live Auction

28 June, 2018

Banqueting House, Whitehall, London

Online Auction

7-28 June, 2018

www.paddle8.com/auction/artangel

Exhibition

8-27 June

22 Cork Street, London

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Steve McQueen: End Credits, 2012 - ongoing

Holland Festival

Double screen installation at Loods 6, Amsterdam

9 - 28 June, 2018

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Steve McQueen will be in conversation with David Dibosa, discussing End Credits and the legacy of Paul Robeson.

10 June, 15:30 - 17:00

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Steve McQueen: Gravesend, 2007 and Unexploded, 2007

Presented for Groundwork, a season of international art in Cornwall

CAST (Cornubian Arts & Science Trust)

Groundwork launches over the weekend 5-7 May with exhibitions by internationally celebrated artists in and around Helston and the Lizard peninsula.

5 May - 3 June, 2018

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm

Free adminssion, no booking required

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Steve McQueen and Sir Nicholas Serota will discuss the exhibition at CAST and McQueen's work.

3 June, 11am - 12.30pm

Screen 2, The Plaza, Truro

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Steve McQueen: Remember Me

Een Werk, Amsterdam

20 October - 15 November, 2017

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Truth: 24 frames per second at Dallas Museum of Art

Featuring works by Bruce Conner, John Gerrard and Steve McQueen

The exhibition brings together 24 pioneers of film and video and over six decades of work focused on pressing contemporary themes, such as race relations, political unrest, sexual identity and the media.

22 October, 2017 - 28 January, 2018

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Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September, 2017 - March, 2018

the Whitworth, The University of Manchester

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Steve McQueen: Ashes

The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

15 February, 2017 - 25 Februay, 2018

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The BFI and BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express, award Steve McQueen its highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship. The presentation will take place at the BFI London Film Festival’s annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday 15 October at Banqueting House.

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The Dutch Culture Minister, Dr Jet Bussemaker selected Steve McQueen as the recipient of this year’s Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch annual state prize for the arts. Dr Bussemaker will present the award on Monday 7 November 2016 in the Ridderzaal in The Hague.

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Artangel - Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

4 September - 30 October, 2016

Reading Prison

HM Prison Reading opens for the first time to the public as artists, writers, and performers respond to its most notorious inmate: Oscar Wilde. At this resonant site, the penal regime Wilde suffered is explored through archives, leading through to the installation of new works by artists such as Nan Goldin, Marlene Dumas, and Steve McQueen in the previously inaccessible – or inescapable – cells and corridors.

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Steve McQueen: Open Plan

 29 April - 14 May, 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Related events:

Friday April 29, 6.30pm

Steve McQueen in conversation with Donna De Salvo

Sunday May 1, 5pm

Harry Belafonte and Dr.Cornel West discuss Paul Robeson

Congratulations to Walead Beshty, Glenn Ligon and Steve McQueen on their participation in 

All the World’s Futures—curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

9 May - 22 November, 2015

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Steve McQueen has been named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, 2014. 

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Steve McQueen

Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo 

Tokyo, Japan

April 26- August 17, 2014

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Our congratulations to Steve McQueen and the whole cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for winning Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards!

 Our congratulations to Steve McQueen, the cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for winning Best Picture at this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.

 Our congratulations to Steve McQueen, the cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for being awarded Best Film at this year's Golden Globes.

Schaulager in Basel currently presents the first comprehensive exhibition of work by the British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. The show features more than twenty video and film installations, photographs and other selected work of Steve McQueen. The exhibition runs until September 1, 2013. In this video, we attend the opening of the exhibition on 15 March, 2013.

Steve McQueen Retrospective at Schaulager Basel. Vernissage, March 15, 2013.

Steve McQueen (born London 1969) is one of the most significant contemporary British artists. The largest exhibition to date of this artist's work will provide a detailed insight into his complex and unusual oeuvre. Installations, photographs and film from every period of his artistic career will be shown.

Steve McQueen's early works are characterised by an experimental approach to cinematic history and the dynamic between black and white, particularly in the aesthetic of silent film, such as French avant garde film and American slapstick. Over the past ten years this aspect of his work has been joined by an exploration of the boundaries between the documentary and the narrative.

In 1999 Steve McQueen was awarded the Turner Prize. In 2008 he won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with the feature film 'Hunger'. In 2009 he represented the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale and in 2011 he was invited to enter the Venice Film Festival's competition with his film 'Shame'.

The exhibition will be co-organised by Schaulager and The Art Institute of Chicago. Schaulager will publish a comprehensive catalogue to accompany the exhibition.

Today the Venice Biennale released the rather epic list (see below) of artists who will participated in curator Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace," which is slated to run from June 1 through November 24 and, despite its title, is dominated by the same American and European artists you'll encounter at most major international shows of contemporary art. "With works spanning over the past century alongside several new commissions," Gioni writes in his introduction, "and with over one hundred and fifty artists from more than thirty-seven countries, the exhibition is structured like a temporary museum that initiates an inquiry into the many ways in which images have been used to organize knowledge and shape our experience of the world."

The exhibition's title and theme were inspired by Italian-American artist Marino Auriti, who conceived of an encyclopedic museum of world culture in Washington, D.C. that would be 136 stories tall with a 16 block footprint, and called the "Palazzo Enciclopedico" (or "Encyclopedic Palace"). Though he spent years working on a model for the enormous structure in his home in rural Pennsylvania - and filed a patent application for it with the U.S. Patent office - Auriti's palace, as you may have guessed, was never built.

Gioni sees such "delusions of omniscience, shed light on the constant challenge of reconciling the self with the universe, the subjective with the collective, the specific with the general, the individual with the culture of her time." In our contemporary situation of sensory overload and data deluge, the curator considers "such attempts to structure knowledge into all-inclusive systems seem even more necessary and even more desperate."

The list of participating artists includes a who's-who of contemporary American heavyweights -Nauman, Condo, Sherman, McCarthy, de Maria, Guyton, Serra, Trecartin, and so on - a similarly comprehensive cross-section of major European artists - including Fischli & Weiss,Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Steve McQueen, and Sehgal - a select few from other regions - four artists each from Africa and South America, and nine from Asia (so much for being encyclopedic) - and historical artifacts like Haitian Vodou flags, Shaker gift drawings, and anonymous Tantric paintings. As GalleristNY notes, the number of artists in the exhibition who've recently shown at the New Museum - where Gioni is the associate director and a curator - is conspicuous, though not entirely surprising.

The full list is below:

Hilma af Klint

"The Encyclopedic Palace" runs June 1-November 24 at the Giardini and the Arsenale.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka presents a special exhibition entitled What We See, which will focus primarily on works that make use of the moving image.

In face of ongoing and unparalleled technological revolution that has occurred over the last century, the advent of globalization, and daily life in contemporary society, which is continually inundated with a huge quantity of information, we are exposed to a bewildering amount of change on a daily basis. In the course of ordinary life, the things that are presented as a "reality" sometimes seem to be occurring in a dream, making it seem as if we are experiencing a complete fabrication. At the same time, the realities that are presented as fiction are imbued with a greater intensity, and function no differently from reality, giving us the sense that the line between artifice and actuality is growing increasingly vague.

In the field of art, the concept of reality was nearly always linked to Realism. And by the time photography emerged, unlike painting, it was thought to have the ability to capture a genuine state of reality. It has since become clear, however, that photography does not always embody this function and that the reality it does embody is not necessarily factual. With the rise of the moving image, and the subsequent use of computer graphics and digital technology, scenes that do not actually exist came to be presented with a heightened sense of reality. For example, a film with the characteristics of a documentary that has been edited and molded according to a certain perspective produces a fiction that is detached from reality.

Today, there are many video works that reflect the state of contemporary society in which the distinction between fact and fiction has been lost. In these works, which blend fact and fiction, the artists are asking us to consider the current whereabouts of truth. Does truth exist in something that was created as a fiction? Is reality truth? When reality becomes a fiction, does truth begin to fluctuate? Or on the other hand, when fiction is formulated as reality, does it lead to the emergence of truth?

This exhibition will present a collection of video works by ten artists from around the world including two from Japan: Hiraki Sawa and Shino Yanai. In contemporary society, with its flood of information and images, we must search for the whereabouts of the essential truth contained in the realities and fictions that are presented in these expressions of the moving image.

Artists:Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Cyprien Gaillard, Johan Grimonprez, Chia-En Jao, Sojung Jun, Steve McQueen, Hiraki Sawa, Pei-Shih Tu, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Shino Yanai

Steve McQueen is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work is primarily engaged with moving images. Born in London in 1969, he has, over the last twenty years, made a series of film and video installations designed for gallery-based presentation, along with two feature films made for cinematic release. His efforts in these two distinct, but interrelated, arenas have earned him a reputation as one of the most important and influential artists of his generation working with these media, and beyond. McQueen's earliest works are silent, and mostly black-and-white, often with a focus on the body, very often the artist's own. Subsequent pieces incorporate, as a general rule, sound and color, and often emerge from more elaborate investigations.

McQueen has been equally concerned with the act of recording moving images as he is with the specific conditions in which these images are presented. The size of the screen, the dimensions of the room, and the relationship between the viewer and the projection itself are all fundamental considerations. McQueen's thinking about formal and spatial relationships in this regard lends a sculptural element to his art. One work in particular,Queen and Country (2007-09), is an entirely sculptural installation with no moving image or sound component. Presented here for the first time outside of the United Kingdom, the work is a memorial to British men and women killed in military service during the most recent war in Iraq.

Most of McQueen's oeuvre-including his gallery-based installations as well as feature films-evidences a potent, at times oblique, political consciousness. Many works address specific social and historical moments in ways that seemingly emerge from documentary or journalistic impulses. Other films are more abstract, their meanings shaped by allegory or metaphor. McQueen always communicates directly to viewers through what one writer termed "the medium of aesthetic affect."