Artworks by Isaac Julien at Victoria Miro Gallery on artnet

Isaac Julien

(British, born 1960)

Isaac Julien

A Chattel Becomes A Man (Lessons of the Hour), 2019

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Isaac Julien

Helen Pitts, Class of 1859 (Lessons of the Hour), 2019

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Isaac Julien

Serenade (Lessons of the Hour), 2019

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Isaac Julien

Looking for Langston (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989–2016

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Isaac Julien

Diasporic Dream-Space No. 2 (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Isaac Julien

Sonata in Red (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Isaac Julien

Black Apollo (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Isaac Julien

Harlem Mecca (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Isaac Julien

Orisa's Return (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Isaac Julien

Night Rain (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022

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Biography

Timeline

1960: Born in England
1980 - 1984: Central Saint Martin's School of Art, BA Fine Art Film (1st Class Honors)
1987 - 1989: Les Entrepreneurs de L’Audiovisuel European (EAVE), Brussels (Post-Doctoral)
1991: Semaine de la Critique Prize, Young Soul Rebels, Cannes Film Festival
1993: John McKnight International Artist Award, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1995: Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Award, New York University, Centre for Media, Culture and History
1996: Wexner Museum Fine Arts International Artist Award, Columbus, Ohio
1997: Pratt and Whitney Canada Grand Prize, 15th International Festival of Films on Art for Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Mask
1998: Andy Warhol Foundation Award; Jerome Foundation Award
1999: Art Pace, International Artist in Residence, San Antonio, Texas
2001: The McDermott Award, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2002: Eyebeam’s Moving Image Commission program, Artist in Residence, New York; Ford Foundation Commission, New York; Bohen Foundation Commission, New York; Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco
2003: 6th Festival International de Cortometraje y Cine Alternativo de Benalmadena (ficcab), Prize for outstanding career in cinematography, Benalmadena; Grand Jury Award, KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany; Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Honorary MA

Exhibitions

2010 - 2011: `WESTERN UNION: Small Boats' (5 screen) in 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
: 8th Shanghai Biennale, China (Ten Thousand Waves single screen collaboration with CHoP, and photographic works)
: Isaac Julien, BASS Museum, Miami, USA (Solo)
: Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (True North)
: Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, USA (Paradise Omeros)
: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask, Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil
: I Love You, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
: The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA (Long Road to Mazatlán)
: CUE: Artist's Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (Vagabondia, Performing for the Camera)
: Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool, UK (Cast No Shadow, Western Union Series)
: fast forward 2. The Power of Motion, Media Art, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM / Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (Paradise Omeros)
: 17th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age. Directed by David Elliot.
: Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (Ten Thousand Waves, 9 screen)
: WESTERN UNION: Small Boats, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (Solo)
: WESTERN UNION: Small Boats, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Solo)
: True North, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA (Solo)
: WESTERN UNION: Small Boats, Riso Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Solo)
2010: Ten Thousand Waves, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (Solo)
2009 - 2010: Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (Paradise Omeros)
: WESTERN UNION: Small Boats, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal (Solo)
: Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, USA (Incognito)
: Race to the Top: Arctic Inspirations 1909 & Today, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
: Everywhere. Sexual Diversity Policies in Art: This is not an AIDs advert, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2009: The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA
: The Margulies Collection, WAREhOUSE, Miami, Florida, USA (WESTERN UNION: Small Boats)
2008 - 2009: Exposition Video, Un Art, Une Histoire (1965-2007), Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
: Western Union: Small Boats, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo)
2008: Isaac Julien, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Solo)
: Brutal Beauty: Derek Jarman, Kunsthalle Zurich (solo)
: Brutal Beauty: Derek Jarman, Kunsthalle Wien (solo)
: Fantôme Afrique, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara (solo)
: Brutal Beauty: Derek Jarman, Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
: Prospect 1 New Orleans, New Orleans
: The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
: The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image Part II: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum, DC
: Print the Legend, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
: Fiction Vs Realité, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Nov 07
: Isaac Julien, True North, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (True North) (solo)
: Currents 99: Isaac Julien, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA (True North photographs) (solo)
: The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
: New Media Works from the Goetz Collection, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (Fantôme Créole) (solo)
: Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
: Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (True North)
: Light, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (The Attendant)
: Video: An Art, A History 1965-2005, MCA Sydney, Australia (Baltimore)
2007: Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York, USA (Trussed)
: Video: An Art, A History 1965-2005, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (Baltimore)
: Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to now, Tate Liverpool
: Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
: Isaac Julien, Brandström Stene, Stockholm (True North & Fantôme Afrique) (solo)
: Isaac Julien, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (True North & Fantôme Afrique) (solo)
: Isaac Julien, The Lab at Belmar, Denver, Colorado (Fantôme Afrique and related photos) (solo)
: Vidéodanse 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Contemporary Commonwealth, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (Paradise Omeros)
: Message Personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
: Review, Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (Trussed)
: Video: An Art, A History 1965 – 2005 New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Central, Miami, 20 September – 10 December 2006 (Baltimore)
: KunstFilmBiennale Köln, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (24 Sept – 4 Oct)
2006: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism – A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, Iceland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, Sápmi, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (Looking for Langston)
: Speaking with Hands – Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
: 25: Deutsche Bank 25th Anniversary Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (30 April – 19 June), traveling to Hara Museum, Tokyo, 25 March – 21 May 2006
: The Projected Image, Tate Modern, London (Encore: Paradise Omeros)
: Isaac Julien, MAK Center, Los Angeles, USA (Photographic works) (solo)
: ShowCASe Contemporary Art for the UK, City Art Centre + Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (After Mazatlan) (22 January – 12 March)
: Emergencies, MUSAC, Léon, Spain (Paradise Omeros – single screen) (1 April)
: 3’, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain (Encore II: Radioactive) (1 April – 30 May)
: Temps de Vídeo, Fundació “La Caixa”, works from the collection of the Pompidou, Barcelona (27 September 2005 – 8 January 2006)
2005: Isaac Julien, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (solo)
: Isaac Julien, VIVO Open Air, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Isaac Julien, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Paradise Omeros) (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Fantôme Creole, Centre Pompidou, Paris (True North + Baltimore) (solo)
: Isaac Julien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo)
: Isaac Juilen, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (Before Paradise prints) (18 November 2005 – 20 January 2006)
2004 - 2005: Experiments with Truth, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Penn. (Fanon SA)
: Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst München, Germany (7 Oct 2004 – 16 Jan 2005) (Lost Boundaries)
: Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Clevland Ohio (19 September 2004 – 2 January 2005)
: Busan Biennale, Korea (Baltimore)
: Permanent Collection, Territories (1984) Pompidou February - December 2004 curated by Christine van Assche
: Deviant Bodies, CEPA Gallery. New York. (The Attendant)
: DAK'ART 6eme Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain 2004: Nanook Cinema curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Frantz Fanon and single screen of Baltimore
: Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (Baadasssss Cinema)
: Berlin Biennale 04, Germany. Baltimore (Triple Screen)
: Stranger Than Fiction, Leeds City Art Gallery, touring to: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, Nottingham Castle and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
: Spread in Prato, Drypoint Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (Paradise photoworks)
2004: Isaac Julien, GL Strand Kunstoreningen, Denmark. (Paradise Omeros, Vagabondia, Radioactive) (solo)
: Baltimore (single screen version), Eyebeam, New York (solo)
: Baltimore (with accompanying photo works), TENTCentrum Beeldende Kunst. Rotterdam (solo)
: Paradise Omeros (with accompanying photo works), Three and Frantz Fanon, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)
: Baltimore and Baltimore Series, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo)
: Baltimore, The Contemporary, Baltimore (solo)
: Black Atlantic, House of World Cultures, Berlin. (True North+ Paradise Omeros) (solo)
: True North, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (+ Baltimore + Paradise Omeros) (solo)
: 3’ Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,Germany.(Encore: Radioactive)
: Double Vision, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
: Independence, South London Gallery, London
: Secession Vienna
: Utopia Station Poster Project, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy and Haus der Kunst, Münich, Germany
: Edinburgh International Film Festival. Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
: East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
: Love/Hate Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Germany
: Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, touring to Seattle Art Museum (March 25 – June 13, 2004)
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Isaac Julien Bohen Foundation, New York (solo)
: Isaac Julien Yvon Lambert, Paris (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Baltimore, The Aspen Art Museum, Colorado U (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Trussed, Sketch, London (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Baltimore and Paradise Omeros, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Baltimore, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
: Isaac Julien: Baltimore and Paradise Omeros, Art Pace, San Antonio (solo)
2003: Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool
: Isaac Julien FACT, Film Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool (solo)
: Les Enfants du Paradis, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
: The Future of Cinema ZKM, Germany (cat)
: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video, Rose Art Musuem, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2002: Documenta 11_Platform5: Ausstellung/Exhibition, Binding Building, Kassel Germany
: The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
: Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Japan
2001 - 2002: Unpacking Europe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
: ARSO1, Kiasma / The Finnish National Gallery. Helsinki
: Turner Prize Tate Gallery, London
: Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, Wharf Road, London
: Enduring Love, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York
2001: Isaac Julien, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
: Museum Boijmans Von Beuningen, Rotterdam
: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass (solo)
: The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck Munich,touring to House of World Cultures in the Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art New York
2000 - 2002: 2000-2002 The Film Art of Isaac Julien, Bard Curatorial College, Annandale on, NY, Hudson touring to: Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Bildmuseet Umeå Sweden, Henie Onstad Museum Norway, Yerba Buena Center San Francisco (solo)
2000: Vagabondia, Studio Museum, Harlem. NY (solo)
: The Long Road to Mazatlan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (solo)
: Cinerama, Corner House Museum, Manchester, touring to South London Gallery (solo)
: After Mazatlan, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: The Long Road to Mazatlan, Grand Arts, Kansas City (solo)
1999 - 2000: Retrace Your Steps, Sir John Soane Museum, London
1999: Rhapsodies in Black, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
: The Long Road to Mazatlan, Art Pace, San Antonio (solo)
: Three, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: Fanon S.A., The Arena, Oxford Brookes University (solo)
: Rhapsodies in Black, The California Palace of the Legion of Honour, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
1998: Rhapsodies in Black, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
1997: Rhapsodies in Black, The Hayward Gallery, London
: Scream and Scream Again, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (cat
: Scream and Scream Again, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art
: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg (cat)
: The Look Of Love, The Approach, London & Southampton City Art Gallery
: Beauty and the Beast, Banff Center for the Arts, Vancouver
: Scream and Scream Again, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1996: Hotter Than July, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
: British Art Now, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
: New Histories, ICA, Boston (cat.)
: AIDS World, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve (cat.)
: AIDS World, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino
1995: Mirage:Enigma of Race, Difference and Desire, ICA, London (cat.)
1993: Abject art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, (cat.)
1991: Cabaret, Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis
1990: Edge 90, Various Sites: London and Newcastle (cat.)

Public Collections

: Deutsche Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
: Government Art Collection, London, UK
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Tate Collection, London, UK
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
: Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
: MUSAC, Léon, Spain

Literature

2008: Flash Art, Review, May/June 2008
: James Christopher, The Times, How to Repeat the Unique, 20 February 2008
: Colin McCabe, The New Statesman, Life After Death, 25 February 2008
: Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard, Where’s the Jarman I knew?, 29 February 2008
: Laura Cumming, The Observer, Jarman’s Rhapsody in Blue, 2 March 2008
: Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, His Blue heaven, 2 March 2008
: Sandra Rehme, Artforum, Critics’ Picks, 12 March 2008
: Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday, The painful history of a modern martyr, 2 March 2008
: Brian Sholis, Artforum.com, There is a light that never goes out, 9 June 2008
: David Frankel, Artforum, Isaac Julien, February 2008
: Dave Calhoun, Time Out, Bohemian Rhapsody, 6 – 12 February 2008
: Jon Savage, Guardian, Against the tide, 14 February 2008
: Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, RA, Pick of the Bunch, Spring 2008
: Karen Wright, The Independent, For the love of Derek, 19 February 2008
: Elena Kane, Contemporary. Preview, No.95
: Zoe Anderson, The Independent, Cast No Shadow, 8 October 2007
: Roselee Goldberg, Art Asia Pacific, The World is Flat: Isaac Julien, No. 55, September/October 2007, pp 150 - 153
: Debra Craine, The Times, A marriage of jigs and reels, 24 September 2007
: Debra Craine, The Times, The moves in movies, 5 October 2007
: Sarah Crompton, The Daily Telegraph, Collaboration between dance and film goes goes swimmingly, 5 October 2007
: Nadine Meisner, The Sunday Times, The net result is disappointment, 14 October 2007
: Sarah Crompton, The Daily Telegraph, A dance in the world’s most beautiful room, 29 September 2007
: Time Out, Isaac Julien, 25 – 31 October 2007
: Holland Cotter, New York Times, Isaac Julien, November 2, 2007
: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times, Journeys That Leave the Traveler Changed, November 8 2007
: Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, Her (his)tory, November-December 2007
2007: RoseLee Goldberg, Flash Art, Yvonne Rainer, Isaac Julien, Learning how to wear it, November-December 2007
: Martina Kudlacek, Bomb, Isaac Julien, Fall 2007
: Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool
: Holly Willis, Daily Variety, Art meets cinema: celluloid and highbrow ideas converge at pic fest, Sundance Film Festival 2006, page A10, January 19
: Jonathan Kahana, Film Quarterly Isaac Julien’s Ethics of Listening (on Frantz Fanon), Volume 59 No.2, page 19-31
: Elisa Turner, Miami Herald Cinematic artist looks at Peary trip, 23 January 2006
: Isaac Julien: True North – Fantôme Afrique, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
: Carly Berwick and Eileen Kinsella, ARTnews, New York, February
: Program of the 20th Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London March-April
: Martin Herbert, Modern Painters, Pole Positions: Art’s Arctic Adventures, April 2006, pp 62 – 67
2006: Laura Taubman, Spot, True North: Interview with Isaac Julien, (Houston Center for Photography), Spring 2006, pp 4–7, cover
: Flash Art, Isaac Julien, January/February 2006
: Dave Calhoun, Whose Black World?, Time Out London, May 25–June 1
: Los Angeles Times, Chilly Image of an Icy Beyond (on True North), 5 August
: Uta M.Reindel, Hollywood und Homer, Köln
: Anna Lockward, The Black Atlantic, Paradoxes and Certainties, art.es #7, February
: Heinz Peter Schwerfel, “Die Ausdehnung des Bildes in Raum und Zeit”, Art das Kunstmagazin, Issue 3, (on True North), March
: Historia del Vídeo de Creación, El País, (on Baltimore), 28 September
: Catalina Serra, Una exposición en Caixaforum Permite Poner en Pausa la Trepidante
: Olga Spiegel, Videoarte, 40 Años de Historia, La Vanguardia, 28 September
: Blind Spot, Issue 30, 2005
: Isaac Julien, Time Out, Whose Black World?, 25 May 2005
: Siobhan Murphy, Looking for Langston, Metro (Ireland), 5 July
: French Culture Program, “Un Téléviseur, deux Emissions en Simultané”
: Nicolas Thély, Isaac Julien: Cineaste en Noir et Blanc, Beaux-Arts, July
: Isaac Julien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: Anne-Sophie Caucheteux, Le Fantôme Créole d’Isaac Julien, Metro (France), 16 June
: Fréderic Bonnet, Noire Élégance, Vogue, 15 May (on Baltimore and Fantôme Créole)
: Malcolm Le Grice, Isaac Julien, Frieze October 2005
: Serena Davies, The Daily Telegraph, In the Studio, 18 October 2005
: Joanna Pitman, The Times, A lost people come in from the cold, 18 October 2005
: Christopher Miles, Artforum, Isaac Julien, November 2005
: Aine O’Brien, Circa, Suturing the aesthetic and the political – multiple screens, multiple realities: An interview with Isaac Julien, Aine O’Brien, Issue 114, Winter 2005
: Isaac Julien Deslocamento, Vivo Open Air, Brasil
: Christine Van Assche, Black Remix, June (on Baltimore and Fantôme Créole)
: Isaac Julien, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Isaac Julien, True North, MAK, Los Angeles, and MOCA, North Miami
2005: Temps de Vídeo, works from the collection of the Pompidou Fundació “La Caixa”, Barcelona
: Black Atlantic, House of World Cultures, Berlin
: Stranger Than Fiction, Leeds City Art Gallery, touring to: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, Nottingham Castle and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
: Berlin Biennale 04, Berlin, Germany Baltimore (Triple screen)
: Experiments with Truth, Frabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
: True North, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
: Calvin Reid, Art in America, Funk Renaissance, March 2004
: Isaac Julien, GL Strand Kunstoreningen, Denmark
: Javier Hontoria, El Cultural, Isaac Julien, 13 May 2004
: Mariano Navarro, El Cultural, Isaac Julien y el cine de lo real, 27 May 2004
2004: Isaac Julien, Oedipus Directs, Isaac Julien on Baadasssss!, Artforum, Summer 2004
: 3’ Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,Germany
: John Russell Taylor, The Times, Is it a film? Is it a video installation? 17 September 2003
: Alfred Hickling Isaac Julien: Fact Liverpool. Guardian Unlimited March
: Answer the Questions, Isaac Julien, The Independent on Sunday March 9th
: Louisa Buck, Isaac Julien: Baltimore Fact, Liverpool, The Art Newspaper, March
: Chris Kaltenbach, You could call Him a Renaissance Man, Los Angeles Times
: Carly Berwick, Isaac Julien, Vogue Homme International, Winter 2002 – 2003
: Roberta Smith New York Times, Paradise Omeros, Bohen Foundation, July 11 2003
: Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Reviews – Art, Adrian Searle, 8 September 2003
: Charles Darwent, Independent on Sunday, The truth is rarely black and white, 7 September 2003
: John Russell Taylor, The Matter of Fact, The Times, March 12th
: Armond White, New York Press, Badass is Back, vol 16 Issue 47, October 2003
: Sukhder Sadhu, The Daily Telegraph, Odyssey of a Lost Soul, 24 September 2003
: Secession, Vienna
: Utopia Station Poster Project, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy and Haus der Kunst, Münich, Germany
2003: Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Germany
: Creolite and Creolization, Documenta 11_Platform 3"
: Morgan Falconer, Frieze, November 2003
: Richard Cork, New Statesman, The Black Half, 6 October 2003
: Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool
: Unpacking Europe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
: Constanze Ruhm, Spaces of Translation: Speaking One Language, Understanding Another, A Conversation with Isaac Julien, Camera Austria 79, pp. 17-28
: Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Japan
: The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
: Eleanor Heartney, A 600-Hour Documenta, Art in America no.5, September 2002, pp. 87-95
: Linda Nochlan, Documented Success, Artforum, September pp. 161-163
: James Meyer, Tunnel Visions, Artforum, September pp. 168-169
: Mark Nash, Wait Until Dark, Tate, November/December (on Paradise Omeros)
: Maite Lores, Isaac Julien, Contemporary, June July August 2002
: Documenta 11 Kassel, Germany
: B. Ruby Rich, The Long Road: Isaac Julien in conversation with B. Ruby Rich, Art Journal, Summer 2002
: Michael Freidson, Getting the Shaft, Time Out New York, August 8-15th (On Baadasssss Cinema)
: Edward Guthmann, ‘Baad’ Company San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday August 13th (On Baadasssss Cinema)
: James Poniewozik, Can You Dig It? Right On!, Time, August 19th (On Baadasssss Cinema)
: Tunku Varadarajan, Shaft and Foxy Revisited, The Wall Street Journal, Friday August 9th (on Baadassss Cinema)
: Hal Hinson, Birth of a Genre: The Black Hero Who Talks Back, The New York Times, Sunday August 11th (On Baadasssss Cinema)
: James Poniewozik, Can you Dig it? Right on!, Time, August 19th
2002: Essay from Documenta 11, Exhibition Catalogue – 2002, Paradise Omeros
: B, Ruby Rich, Still A Soul Rebel, The Advocate, May 14th
: Dick Hebdige, Isaac Julien, The Great Divide: Territories, Prince Claus Fund, Journal #7, p.20-21
: Vasanthi Dass, Vagabondia: Archiving the Archive, in Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, p. 350 - 355
: The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck Munich,touring to House of World Cultures in the Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art and The Museum of Modern Art New York
: Lilly Wei, Isaac Julien at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Art in America, May 2001 pp168
: Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
2001: Isaac Julien, Ellipsis Minigraph, London
: ARSO1, Kiasma / The Finnish National Gallery. Helsinki
: The Film Art of Isaac Julien Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, U.S.A
: Still moving. Hotshoe International. Jan/Feb
: Alice Thornson, Lonesome Cowboy: Issac Julien disrupts the western canon with gay-themed film at Grand Arts. The Kansas City Star. March 19th
: Okwui Enwezor, Towards a Critical Cinema: The Films of Isaac Julien, February, The Long Road to Mazatlan, Grand Arts, Kansas City
: Heather Lustfeldt, At Play in the Fields of the American West, Review, April
: Erika Muhammad, Reel Stories: Isaac Julien, Index, June / July
: Susan Corrigan, Dancing with Dudes, The Times, Metro, August 12 - 18
: Judith Palmer, Once upon a time in the West, The Independent, September 19
: John L Walters, Noises at an Exhibition, The Guardian, September 29
: Holland Cotter, Eros Cruises the Museum In a Filmmaker’s Dreams, The New York Times, November 24
2000: Lisa Katzman, A World of Double Outsiders: Gay as Well as Black, The New York Times, Sunday, November 26
: Adrian Searle, Winsome Cowboys, The Guardian, August 22
: Face to Interface: Isaac Julien, Sight and Sound, September
: David Frankel, Isaac Julien, The Long Road to Mazatlan, Art Pace, San Antonio
: Christy Adair & Ramsay Burt, Two into the making of Three, Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 15 No2.
: Catherine Elwes, Isaac Julien, Art Monthly, June pp35-37
1999: Rhapsodies in Black, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
: Francesco Bonami & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dreams, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte
: Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality and Vision: some Questions, Vision and Visuality, Dia Art Foundation No 2
: Black Film, British Cinema, ICA Documents 7, pp53-57
: Roselee Goldberg, Performance and Live Art Since the 60’s, Thames and Hudson, p143
: Richard J Powell, Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century, Thames and Hudson, pp212-213
: Frantz Fanon (French text) K Films Edition
: Isaac Julien & Mark Nash, Frantz Fanon: Peau Noire, Masque Blanc
: Manthia Diawara, Moving Company - The Second Johannesburg Biennale, ArtForum vol XXXVI, March 1998, pp87-89
1998: Michael Corris, Art and Text Issue 63, Nov 98-Jan 99, pp54-59
: Isaac Julien, Only Angels Have Wings for DIA Centre of The Arts AIDS WORLD: Between Resignation and Hope, pp142-147
1997: Isaac Julien, MOMA Chicago, Program Catalogue. Spring
: Robert Stam, Permutations of the Fantonian Gaze; Isaac Julien’s ‘Black Skin White Mask’, Black Renaissance Noire vol 1 no 2 Summer/Fall pp186-192
: Richard Cork, Mirage, The Times June 27
: Izi Glover, The Look of Love, Frieze Sep/Oct
: Die Beute, Edition id-Archive, Summer pp62-66 (interview about Frantz Fanon)
: Bell Hooks, Thinking Through Class: Paying Attention to The Attendant, Reel to Real: Race Sex and Class at the Movies pp91-97
: Catherine Elwes, The Big Screen, Art Monthly Issue 199 pp11-16 (on Trussed)
: Alan Read (ed), Film-makers’ Dialogue, The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
: Eddie Chambers, Johannesburg Biennale, Art Monthly Issue 212 pp14-18
: Manthia Diawara, Black British Cinema and Identity Formation in Territories, Black British Cultural Studies, pp293-306
: Isaac Julien, Black British Cinema - Diaspora Cinema, New Histories pp60-64
: Richard Cork, Scream and Scream Again, The Times August 6
: Charles Gaines, Hotter Than July, Art and Text Issue 55 p84
: Kaja Silverman, The Ceremonial Image, The Threshold of the Visible World pp104-121 on Looking For Langston
1996: Warren E Crichlow, Popular music, Pedagogy and Cultural Politics in the Films of Isaac Julien, Discourse vol.16 no 3
: Isaac Julien & Kobena Mercer, De Margin and De Centre, Black British Cultural Studies pp194-210
1995: Kobena Mercer, Busy in the Ruins of a Wretched Phantasia, Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, ICA
: Bruce Morrow, The Isaac Julien Interview, Callaloo vol 18 no 2 pp406-415
: Roy Grundmann, Black Nationhood and the Rest in the West, Cineaste vol XXI nos1-2 pp28-31 (interview)
: David Curlis, A Directory of British Film and Video Artists pp86-87
: Isaac Julien, Confessions of a Snow Queen: notes on the making of The Attendant, Critical Quarterly vol 36 no 1 Spring
: Jorg Heiser,Batty Boys in Babylon, Spex, Germany pp49-51
1994: Kobena Mercer & Isaac Julien, True Confessions, Black Male Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art pp191-200
: Isaac Julien & Jon Savage (ed),Critically Queer, Critical Quarterly vol 36 No 1 Spring
1993: Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Man’s Burden, Fear of a Queer Planet, Queer Politics and Social Theory (on Looking For Langston)
: Craig HauserI, Abject, Abject Art, Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum (on The Attendant)
: Paul Gilroy,Climbing the Racial Mountain, a Conversation with Isaac Julien, Small Acts : Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures
: Jose Arroyo, Look Back and Talk Black: The Films of Isaac Julien, Jump Cut no 36, translated into Japanese for ImageForum April pp88-97
1992: James Saynar, Interview Magazine, January p24
1991: Manthia Diawara, The Absent One: The Avant-Garde and the Black Imaginary in Looking For Langston, Wide Angle vol13 nos 3 & 4 (July -October)
: Kobena Mercer, Dark and Lovely, Ten Photo Paperback vol 2 No 1 pp78-86
: Adrian Searle, Thumping Pleasure, Artscribe Issue 89 Nov/Dec (on Young Soul Rebels)
1990: Tony Fisher, Looking for Langston. Montageof a Dream Deferred
: Armond White, Racing Ahead, Film Comment, pp2-4
1988: Coco Fusco, Young British and Black, a monograph on the work of Sankofa Film/Video Collective and Black Audio Collective, Discourses, Conversations in Postmodern Art and culture, The New Museum of Contemporary Art NYC
1987: Douglas Crimp, How To Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic, pp270-271 (on This Is Not An AIDS Advertisement)

Isaac Julien

(British, born 1960)

Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

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