A Conversation with Steve McQueen and Donna De Salvo

Friday, September 20, 2024, 6 pm, Dia Chelsea

Steve McQueen, Sunshine State, 2022. Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022. © Steve McQueen and Pirelli HangarBicocca. Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut/IFFR, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

Event details
Friday, September 20, 2024
6 pm

Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street
New York, New York

Free. Spaces are limited; register here.

On the opening evening of Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea and in conjunction with the release of Steve McQueen: Bass—a new publication dedicated to the artist’s commission for Dia Beacon—McQueen discusses the conceptual connections between the concurrent projects and how they relate to, but also expand, his artistic practice. Donna De Salvo, Dia’s senior adjunct curator, special projects, joins the artist in conversation.

Steve McQueen was born in London in 1969. Surveys of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago and Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel (2012–13); Tate Modern, London (2020); and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022). Recent solo presentations include those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); the Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Museum of Modern Art,New York (2017); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2017); Whitworth Art Gallery,Manchester (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017–18); Tate Britain,London (2019–21); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2023). McQueen has participated in Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002), as well as the Venice Biennale (2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015), representing Great Britain in 2009. He isthe recipient of numerous awards, including the Turner Prize (1999); W. E. B. DuBois Medal, Harvard University (2014); and Johannes Vermeer Award (2016). He was declared Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2011, and Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order in 2020.

McQueen directed the feature films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2014), and Widows (2018); as well as the series Small Axe (2020), an anthology of five films shown on the BBC and Amazon; and Uprising (2021), a three-part documentary series for the BBC. His documentary Occupied City (2023) is based on the book Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940-1945 (Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940–1945, 2019) by Bianca Stigter. McQueen won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Hunger in 2008 and an Oscar for Best Motion Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2014.

McQueen lives in Amsterdam and London.