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British born Amsterdam based artist, Steve McQueen, is one of
the leading young international contemporary video and filmmakers.
Trained in England (Goldsmith College, London) and in the United
States (Tisch School of Arts, New York University, 1993-1994)
he has been widely exhibited in Europe, and in South America
(ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
France, 2003; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000;
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997) but less so in the United
States where his work has been presented at the Art Institute
of Chicago (2002) and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art (1998).
Steve McQueen’s black-and-white silent films draw upon
structural filmmaking of the 1960s as well as on performance
art to create aesthetically and intellectually compelling
works that are rich in cinematic tradition. Most recently
in his color video projections, he has focused on historic
events in Grenada (Caribs’ Leap, 2002), from where his
family originates, and on an interdisciplinary approach between
art and science when using existing images from Voyager (1977)
and collaborating with scientists from NASA and SETI for Once
Upon a Time (2003), his most recent site-specific work, commissioned
by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Steve McQueen was the Davis Museum’s artist in
residence during the Spring 2004 semester, and presented
his works Drumroll (1998),
Prey (1999), and Exodus (1992-97)
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A recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize (1999), his
work
is included in major public and private collections. This
was the artist’s first one-person exhibition in
New England.
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