Marian Goodman Gallery extends our warmest congratulations to Steve MᶜQueen, who has just been awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts.

“In a world characterized by violence, fanaticism and greed, Steve MᶜQueen’s artistic practice offers a shining compass in the dark. Exceptionally consistent, sharp and precise, he activates the onlooker’s position when faced with the work of art, while insisting on the capacity of the moving image to give body, voice and presence to those who have been banished to the margins. The “realism” he presents is equally a denouement of privilege, power and oppression, and an earnest communication of moments of serene joy and euphoria; an upholding of humanitarian values.” - Rolf Schock Foundation

Steve MᶜQueen is a celebrated artist, film director and screenwriter. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1999; was featured in Documenta (1997 and 2002), represented Great Britain at the fifty-third 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 (2002, 2012, 2009, 2017); Schaulager, Basel (2013); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); and the 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 Hangar Bicocca, Milan in 2022. In Spring 2023, he presented “Grenfell” at the Serpentine South Gallery, London and will open a major new commission at Dia Art Foundation, New York in May 2024.

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. His recent documentary, “Occupied City,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023 and he is currently in post-production on “Blitz,” a new feature film which will be released later this year.