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Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to inaugurate its Los Angeles gallery this September with a solo exhibition dedicated to artist and filmmaker Steve MᶜQueen.The exhibition will feature the U.S. premiere of the immersive video installation Sunshine State (2022) by MᶜQueen.

Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Steve MᶜQueen exposes the fragility of the human condition. This exhibition follows the recent presentation of Grenfell at Serpentine South Gallery in London, as well as the debut of his latest film _Occupied City _at Cannes Film Festival in May 2023.

Steve MᶜQueen (1969 - ) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores universal themes, often addressing painful and challenging histories.

Awarded the Turner Prize in 1999, MᶜQueen has had his artwork presented at some of the most significant venues and museums around the world. His work has been featured in Documenta (1997 and 2002). He represented Great Britain at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and was selected several times for the Venice Biennale’s central pavilion (2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015). Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Schaulager, Basel (2013); Whit worth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017). In 2019 he presented YEAR 3 at Tate Britain and had a major one person exhibition at Tate Modern in 2020, which toured to Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, in 2022. In April/May 2023, he presented _Grenfell _at the Serpentine South Gallery, London.

MᶜQueen has directed four feature films. His first, Hunger (2008), was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and his third, 12 Years a Slave (2013), received the Golden Globe, Oscar, and BAFTA awards for best picture in 2014. In 2020, he made_Small Axe_, an anthology of five films about London’s West Indian community and, in 2021, _Uprising, _a 3-part documentary with James Rogan, about the New Cross Fire in London in 1981. He has recently completed Occupied City, which is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023 and is in post production on _Blitz, _a new feature about the Second World War.

MᶜQueen was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011. He was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honors list. MᶜQueen was born in West London and is based in London and Amsterdam.

Located in Hollywood near the Highland Corridor, at North Hudson Avenue off Santa Monica Boulevard, Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles comprises a 13,000-square-foot facility, featuring 5,000 square feet of flexible, skylit galleries as well as a landscaped garden, viewing rooms, office space, and dedicated parking. The Gallery is being designed by the L.A.-based architectural firm Johnston Marklee, acclaimed internationally for their cultural buildings and adaptive reuse projects.

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Born 1969 in London. Lives and works in Amsterdam and London.

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