Steve McQueen
Born in London, England, 1969
Lives and works in London, England and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Education
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York NY, 1994
Goldsmith's College, London, England, 1993
Chelsea School of Art, London, England, 1990
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Forthcoming: Dia Beacon, Beacon NY [travelling to: Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland]
2023
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Grenfell, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
2022
End Credits, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Running Thunder, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
Sunshine State, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2021
Ashes, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
2020
Steve McQueen, Tate Modern, London, England
2019
Year 3, Tate Britain, London, England
2018
Gravesend, Groundwork by CAST, Helston, Cornwall, England
2017
Steve McQueen: End Credits, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL
Steve McQueen: Ashes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Remember Me, Een Werk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Steve McQueen: End Credits, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Inbox: Steve McQueen, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Steve McQueen: Ashes, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA
2016
Open Plan: Steve McQueen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2014
Steve McQueen: Ashes, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Drumroll, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA
Steve McQueen, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Steve McQueen: Works, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
Steve McQueen: Rayners Lane, xavierlaboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
2012
Blues Before Sunrise, Site-specific installation, Temporary Stedelijk 3, Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Steve McQueen: Works, Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Chicago IL
2010
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
2009
Steve McQueen. Giardini, British Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 53, Venice, Italy
Steve McQueen. Gravesend/Unexploded, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Steve McQueen. Girls, Tricky, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Steve McQueen. Once Upon a Time, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2008
Steve McQueen, Baltic Gateshead, Gateshead, England
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Queen and Country, Barbican Centre, London, England
2007
Running Thunder, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Steve McQueen. Gravesend, The Renaissance Society, Chicago IL
Queen and Country, Imperial War Museum, London, England; [travelled to: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, England; St George's Hall, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough, England; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, England; Royal United Services Institute, London, England; National Portrait Gallery, London, England]
2006
Steve McQueen. Caresses, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2005
Steve McQueen/Peter Sarkisian. Double Feature, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA
Steve McQueen, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
2004
Steve McQueen, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA,
Steve McQueen. Once Upon a Time, South London Gallery, London, England
Steve McQueen. Into This World, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2003
Steve McQueen. Speaking in Tongues, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Tate & Egg Live, performance in collaboration with the opera singer Jessye Norman and the jazz trumpeter Mike Lovatt, Tate Britain, London, England
2002
Steve McQueen. Caribs’ Leap/Western Deep, Artangel at the Lumiere, London, England; [travelled to: Museo de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain]
Focus: Steve McQueen, Nov. 7th, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2001
Steve McQueen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2000
Steve McQueen. Cold Breath, Delfina Project Space, London, England
Steve McQueen, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; [travelled to: Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico]
Steve McQueen, Barrage, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1999
Steve McQueen, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Steve McQueen, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1998
Steve McQueen. Four Projected Images, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Steve McQueen. Deadpan, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997
Steve McQueen, ‘Five Easy Pieces’ & ‘Just Above My Head’, Video Installations, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Steve McQueen, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
Steve McQueen, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Steve McQueen. Projects 62, The Project Room, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Steve McQueen, Jeanne Dunning, Nari Ward, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee MI
1996
Steve McQueen. Five Easy Pieces, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
Steve McQueen. Just Above My Head, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Biennials and Festivals
2023
Sharjah Biennial 15, Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE
Sunshine State, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021
Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
2020
End Credits, Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts, Innsbruck, Austria
2018
End Credits, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015
All the World’s Futures, Biennale di Venezia 56, Venice, Italy
2014
Deadpan, Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, Ireland
2013
Il palazzo Enciclopedico, Venice Biennale 55, Venice, Italy
2007
Queen and Country, Manchester International Festival at Manchester Central Library, Manchester, England
Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Biennale di Venezia 52, Venice, Italy
2003
Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia 50, Venice, Italy
2002
Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
1998
Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada
1997
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Trade Routes. History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2023
Out of Africa: Selections from the Kramlich Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2022
Double Act, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2021
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London, England [travelled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada]
Family: a view from here, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A Biography of Daphne, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank, Australia
Portals, Tobacco Factory, presented by the Hellenic Parliament and NEON, Athens, Greece
2020
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2019
Get Up, Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London, England
Gift from the Hoffman Collection, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2018
Collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
Dancing with Myself – works from the Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
The Shape of Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Mostra Inaugurale/Inaugural Exhibition, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2017
Clegg & Guttmann, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Corners/In Between, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, Italy
The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oostende, Belgium
Truth: 24 frames-per-second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
O Superman to Girls Tricky, I Am Here, Where Are You: On Vocal Performance, Bergen Kusthall, Bergen, Norway
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England; [travelled to: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery]
The Body Politic, The Met Breuer, New York NY
Collection on Display: Communities, Rules, Rituals, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Mondialité, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
The Restless Earth/La Terra Inquieta, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2016
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England
Inside. Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, Artangel Commission, Reading Prison, Reading, England
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Flesh: Skin and Surface, York Art Gallery, York, England
Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York NY
Erika Hoffmann-Koenige Collection, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2015
Fighting History: 250 Years of British History Painting, Tate Britain, London, England
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding and Decoding, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada [travelled to: Museu Berado, Lisbon, Portugal; Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor MI]
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC; [travelled to: Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland OR]
Images that Speak, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
La Répétition, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Fuego blanco – La colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel, Museo Nacioanl Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Let There Be More Light, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA
Encounters and Collisions, curated by Glenn Ligon, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
Dead Ringer, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australira
Roll Up, Roll Up!, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Meer Macht/More Power, Museum de Fundatie, Plaeis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle, Netherlands
Black Eye, 57 Walker Street, New York NY
2013
Besser scheitern/Fail Better, Film + Video, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS.1, Long Island City, New York NY
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; [travelled to: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria]
2012
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
What We See, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
El maãna ya estuvo aquí/ Tomorrow Was Here, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; [travelled to: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico]
2011
Contemporary Galleries. 1980-Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Zeit zu handeln! Werke aus de Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Doau
Blockbuster: cine para exhibiciones, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; [travelled to: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo de Mexico (MUAC), Mexico-City, Mexico]
Street Life and Home Stories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
You Have Been There – departs bifurcations, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France; [travelled to: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY]
Big Picture. Zwölf kinematographische Installationen, K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim. Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2010
Uneven Geographies. Art and Globalisation, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
The Future Demands Your Participation. Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ha sempre um copo de mar para o homem navigar/ There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail in, 29e Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
VIDEO XXI. Collección Lemaître, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru
Bild für Bild. Film ung zeitgenössische Kunst/Image by Image. Film and Contemporary Art, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
CUE. Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Le Meilleur des mondes, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
October Salon 2010… The Night Pleases Us…, 51st October Salon, Belgrade, Belarus
Trailer Park. Opere dalla collezione Morra Greco, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
The Beauty of Distance. Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Manhattan, uso mixto. Fotografia y otras practices artisticas desde 1970 al presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2009
Works in the Donna and Howard Stone Film, Video and New Media Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Sounds and Visions. Artists’ Films and Videos from Europe. The Last Decade, Tel Aviv Musuem of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis MN
We Go Round in Circles at Night, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Traces of Time, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlyia, Israel
Passports. In viaggio con l’arte. 75 anni di pittura, scultura, fotografia e installazioni dalla collezione del British Council, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Hykleri. Stedsspesifikk moralitet/Hypocrisy. The Site Specifictu of Moraliry, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
2008
A Year in Exhibitions, 7th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
The Wizard of OZ, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA
Revolutions, University Art Gallery, La Jolla CA
History in the Making. A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Intimacy, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
The Cinema Effect. Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Part I: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Todas as historias/All the Stories, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Zonas de Riesgo/ Risk Zones. Contemporary Art Collectino “la Caxia” Foundation, CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Electrones libres. Una Selección de videos de la colección Lemaître, Tabacalera International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastián, Spain
Edit! Fotografia e Filme na Colecção Ellipse/Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
The Unhomely. Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain
A Terceira Margem do Rio/The Third Bank of the River, 6a Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Portugal
Vertigo. A Century of Multimedia Art, from Futurism to the Web, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Equal, That Is, To the Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
30/40: A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2006
The Starry Messenger. Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England
How to Improve the World. 60 Years of British Art. Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Le mouvement des images/The Movement of Images, Musée national d’art modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
On/Off, Fonds regional d’art contemporain (FRAC) de Lorraine, Metz, France
2005
Atlantic & Bukarest, Fotografie, Film und Video. Neuerwerbungen des Kunstmuseums Basel und der Emanuel Soffmann-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Time Clash, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Bidibidobidiboo. Opere dalla Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Sammlung 2005. Neupräsentation der Erweiterten Sammlung, K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Die Neue Kunsthalle III, Kunsthalle Manheim, Manheim, Germany
Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England; [travelled to: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy]
20/20 Vision, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Non-Sect Radical, Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Stranger Than Fiction, Abersytwyth Arts Centre, Aberstywyth, Wales
WOW. The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Taipei Beinnial. Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2003
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY
Urban Baroque, Plane Space, New York NY
A Century of Artist’s Film in Britain, Part 3, Tate Britain, London, England
Fast Forward. Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Real Life: Film and Video Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives, Cornwall, England
Video Acts. Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York NY
Sudden Glory. Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA
Lewis Carroll – Confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamis confiture aujourd’hui, Centre Régional d’art Contemporain de Sète (CRAC), Sète, France
2001
Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
Club Hollywood! – Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Black Box Recorder, Bunkier Szutki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Il bordo dello specchio / Mirror’s edge, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy [travelled to Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden]
2000
Beauté in Fabula, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
Media_City Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1999
Infra-Slim Spaces. The Physical and Spiritual in the Art of Today, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
Self Portrait, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Moments in Time. On Narration and Slowness, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachaus und Kunstbau München, Munich
Retrace Your Steps. Remember Tomorrow, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, England
Seeing Time. Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA; [travelled to: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany]
The Space Here is Everywhere: Art with Architecture, Villa Merkel, Bahnwäterhaus, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Common People. Arte inglese tra fenomeno e realtà, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Turin, Italy
The Turner Prize 1999. An Exhibition of Work by the Shortlisted Artists: Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen, Steven Pippin, Jane and Louise Wilson, Tate Gallery, London, England
Mirror’s Edge, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; [travelled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland]
1998
La coscienza luccicante. Dalla video arte all’arte interattiva/The Glittering Consciousness. From Video Art to Interactive Art, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Ironisch/Ironic. Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Alicia Framis, Steve McQueen, Aernout Mik/Marjoleine Boonstra, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Wounds. Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1997
La Collection, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
1996
Full House: Junge Britische Kunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Spellbound. Art and Film, Hayward Gallery and the British Film Institute, London, England
Life/live. La scène artistique au Royaume-Uni en 1996 de Nouvelles aventures, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; [travelled to: Centro Cultural de Belém (now Museu Berardo), Lisbon, Portugal]
Timing, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
The British Art Show 4, Manchester, England; [travelled to: Edinburgh, Scotland; Cardiff, Wales;]
Mirage. Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England
X/y. Jeunes artistes – Nouveaux Medias, Musée national d’art modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1994
Acting Out. The Body in Video: Then and Now, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, England
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Arts Council Collection, England
British Council, England
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Charpenel Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico
Collección Inelcom Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Collection Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collezione La Gaia, Bruscia, Italy
CV Collection, Santander, Spain
D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece
De Pont, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création, Paris, France
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge MA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Imperial War Museums, via The Art Fund, London, England
Inhotim Collection, Brazil
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA
Ishikawa Foundation, Okayama, Japan
K21 Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kadist Collection, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
La Caixa Contemporary Art Collection, Spain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Ministerie van OCW (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science), Den Haag, Netherlands
MUDAM-Muséed'Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musée Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of London, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Nasher Museum at Duke University, NC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
New Art Trust, San Francisco CA
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Saastamoinen Foundation, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Zürich, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Simmons & Simmons Art Collection, London, England
Tate Collection, England
The ISelf Collection, London, England
The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, England
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Vanhaerent Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Selected Awards
2024
Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts
Volta Lifetime Achievement Award, Dublin International Film Festival
2022
Best Factual Series, BAFTA Awards (for ‘Uprising’)
Vantage Award, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (for 'Small Axe')
2021
Award for Innovate Storytelling, European Film Awards (for 'Small Axe’)
Peabody Award (for 'Small Axe')
2020
KBE (Kinght Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)
2019
Most Influential Moving Image Artist, Ben Awards, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
2018
The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing, Britannia Awards, British Academy
2016
Black Perspectives Tribute Honoree, 52nd Chicago International Film Festival
BFI Fellowship, BFI London Film Festival
Johannes Vermeer Prize, The Netherlands
2014
Best Picture, Academy Awards (for ‘12 Years a Slave')
Best Drama Picture, Golden Globe Awards (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Best Film, BAFTA Awards (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
European Achievement in World Cinema, European Film Awards
Media Hero Award, Andrew Goodman Foundation
W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University
MoMA Party in the Garden Honoree
Movie of the Year, AFI Award (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
Outstanding Motion Picture, Black Reel Awards
Outstanding Director in a Motion Picture, Image Award (for ‘12 Years a
Slave’)
Best Director, Guardian Film Awards
Best Director & Best Feature, Independent Spirit Awards (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
Most Valuable Movie of the Year, Cinema for Peace Awards (for ‘12 Years a Slave)
Best Director, Acapulco Black Film Festival (for ‘12 years a Slave’)
Outstanding Director & Motion Picture, Black Reel Awards
Best Director, Vancouver Film Critics Circle (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, PGA Awards
Best Director, Independent Spirit Awards (for ‘12 Years a Slave’)
2013
People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival (for ’12 Years
a Slave’)
Best Director, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (for ’12 Years a
Slave’)
Best Director, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (for ’12 Years a
Slave)
Best Director, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Hollywood Breakthrough Award, Hollywood Film Festival (for ’12 Years
a Slave’)
Best Director, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards (for ’12 Years a
Slave’)
Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (for
‘12 Years a Slave’)
Best Director, Satelite Awards (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
Best Director, Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards (for ’12 Years
a Slave’)
Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Bronze Horse, Stockholm Film Festival (for ’12 Years a Slave’)
2012
Best Director, Black Reel Awards (for ‘Shame’)
2011
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Best Film, Stockholm Film Festival (for ‘Shame’)
FIPRESCI Prize, CinemAvvenire Award & Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival
(for ‘Shame’)
2009
Best First Feature, Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Carl Foreman Award for the Most promising Newcomer, BAFTA Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Lino Brocka Award, Cinemanila International Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
Best Film, Evening Standard British Film Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
ALFS Award, London Critics Circle Film Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Best First Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2008
Camera d’Or Prize, Cannes Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
International Film Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
Outstanding Debut by a British Director, BAFTA Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Douglas Hickox Award, British Independent Film Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Gold Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival, Best Feature (for ‘Hunger’)
Gucci Group Annual Award for Artist in Film, Venice Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
Coup de Coeur, Dinard British Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
European Discovery of the Year, European Film Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Young Jury Award, Geneva Cinema International Film Festival - Tout Ecran (for ‘Hunger’)
Kingfisher Award for Best Debut, Ljubijana International Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (for ‘Hunger’)
Diesel Discovery Award, Toronto International Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
Spirit of Freedom Award, Jerusalem Film Festival (for ‘Hunger’)
Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival
2003
Official War Artist (Iraq), Imperial War Museum, London, England
2002
OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)
1999
Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England
1998
DAAD Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany
1996
ICA Futures Award, London, England
