London's Whitechapel Gallery has announced that visionary filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien KBE RA will be honoured with the prestigious Art Icon Award, marking the eleventh recipient of this recognition. The award, designed to celebrate artists whose contributions...
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass – A visual and literary meditation juxtaposing Isaac Julien’s artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy. Edited by Isaac Julien and Cora Gilroy-Ware with...
I first came across the work of Isaac Julien when I was doing my MA in Creative Writing at UEA and did a module on black British film. In the early 90s, there wasn’t much of it about, so Young Soul Rebels, a sassy coming-of-age thriller that examines the interaction...
Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video art installations, Sir Isaac Julien is one of the leading artists in film and video today. This ambitious solo exhibition reveals the scope of Julien's pioneering work in film and installation from the early 1980s...
The Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts, including a knighthood for the filmmaker/installation artist Isaac Julien, The installation artist Cornelia Parker OBE and the Illustrator Sir Quentin Blake...
Isaac Julien will present his Venice Biennale video installation at Art Basel this month. It will be shown on a larger scale than previously seen, as a unique site specific installation filling the magnificent interior of the imposing...
The London-based international artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien will be the featured artist in the Atrium at MoMA, New York with his major multi-screen installation, Ten Thousand Waves (2010) opening on 25 November 2013.Ten Thousand Waves will be installed in the...
Catherine Opie is standing at the entrance to her exhibition proudly wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with the word DYKE in gothic script - a piece of merch the National Portrait Gallery has produced to accompany her exhibition. Referring to a portrait entitled Dyke...
After nearly a decade at the helm, Maria Balshaw will leave her post as Director of Tate next spring, closing out a tenure that has steered the institution through expansion, turbulence, and no small amount of debate about what a national museum should be in the 21st...