Born 1969 in London. Lives and works in Amsterdam and London.
Steve McQueen CBE trained at the Chelsea School of Art, London; Goldsmith College, London; and at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. He was the recipient of an ICA Futures Award in (1996), a DAAD Artist in Residence Grant in Berlin (1999), the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London (1999), the Sydney Film Prize, Sydney Film Festival (2008), and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011. He has participated in Documenta X (1997), XI (2002) and XII (2007) and in the Venice Biennale (2013, 2009 and 2003). He has had a number of international solo exhibitions, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2010), the Art Institute in Chicago (2009), the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2005), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2003) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1998). A retrospective of his work was recently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2012) and the Schaulager, Basel (2013).
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

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