Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Steve McQueen is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores universal themes, often addressing painful and challenging histories and exposes the fragility of the human condition.

Awarded the Turner Prize in 1999 and the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts, McQueen has had his artwork presented at some of the most significant venues and museums around the world.

McQueen has directed five feature films: Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Widows (2018) and Blitz (2024). Hunger was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and his third, 12 Years a Slave, 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 documentary film, Occupied City, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. Blitz, his most recent feature film, about the Second World War, had its world premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival in 2024.