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Lessons of the Hour at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
14 October 2020 - 13 March 2021Isaac Julien's immersive, meditative portrait of Frederick Douglass Lessons of the Hour opens on Wednesday, 14th of October at McEvoy... Read more -
'Paradise Omeros' at IMMA's commemorative exhibition
1 September 2020 - 1 September 2021Paving the way for the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 30th anniversary celebrations in 2021, the exhibition Ghosts from the... Read more
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'Lessons of the Hour' West Coast première
MFA, in San Francisco, to host the first comprehensive exhibition of the series in the West Coast14 October 2020 - 13 March 2021The ten-screen film installation Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass had its première in March 2019 at the Rochester Memorial... Read more -
Group exhibition to premiere 3-screen piece
Show at Wiels Centre, Brussels, addresses the risks around homogenisation of ideas11 September 2020 - 10 January 2021Exploring the potential of risk that challenges the homogenization of thought in the now infamous echo chambers of our overcrowded... Read more
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Isaac Julien solo exhibition at MAXXI, Rome
Exhibition to show nine-screen piece 'A Marvellous Entanglement' for the first time in continental Europe23 September 2020 - 17 January 2021Organised by the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI, Rome), the first European presentation of full-scale Lina Bo... Read more -
Frank Walter retrospective to feature two films by Isaac Julien
16 May - 15 November 2020After remaining closed for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt has reopened... Read more
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Isaac Julien and Leila Weefur in Conversation
On Thursday, October 15 Isaac Julien will be in conversation with curator Leila Weefur to discuss the poetics and architecture... Read more -
A conversation to be listened to
Commenting on the creation of his series Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass for the Royal Academy of Arts' magazine... Read more
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Contemporary Art Society holds online talk with Isaac Julien
Held on Zoom on 26 June, the Contemporary Art Society hosted a live talk with Isaac Julien at his current... Read more -
Isaac Julien Among 12 Artists On The Financial Crisis
In a recent New York Times article, Isaac Julien was featured as one of the twelve contemporary artists that were... Read more
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Lessons of the Hour at the MAG in Rochester
In the spring of 2019, the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York hosted the world premiere of Lessons... Read more -
New photocollages at Jessica Silverman Gallery
Basing its premise on the theme of animism, Jessica Silverman Gallery's online group show Conversational Spirits II includes two new... Read more
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The future of video art, according to the NYT
Shortly after the presentation of photographic artworks from Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass by Jessica Silverman Gallery and in... Read more -
Victoria Miro Gallery presents photographic works from 'Lessons of the Hour'
21 July - 29 August 2020Victoria Miro Gallery's extended reality (XR) exhibition features photographic artworks from Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass, in... Read more
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Isaac Julien on Acute Art Live
Isaac Julien is set to appear in the next Acute Art Live session discussing Baltimore (2003) and the relevance to... Read more -
MOSTRA PERSPECTIVAS VILA SUL: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Frantz Fanon receives incredible response at Goethe Institute - Salvador online programme Perspective Vila Sul Goethe Institute: Since 2016, the Vila Sul Artistic Residency Program of the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia has welcomed artists and cultural agents... Read more
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore to Screen Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask
May 13, 2020As the physical location for NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore stays closed to the public until 1 June, their... Read more -
Isaac in Conversation with Fernanda Torres
Galeria Nara Roesler to host conversation as part of their Ping Pong Youtube Series Galeria Nara Roesler are to host a conversation between Isaac Julien and Fernanda Torres, as part of their Ping Pong... Read more
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Isaac Julien | Metro Pictures Online Film Festival
Isaac Julien. Baltimore (2003) screened as part of Metro Pictures Online Film Festival T his weekend Metro Pictures are showing Isaac Julien’s single-screen version of Baltimore. Link here . The film focuses on... Read more -
Isaac Julien in conversation with Louise Yelin
Resonating Western Union: Small Boats beyond the museum walls while the exhibition remains closed for the public, the Neuberger Museum... Read more
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Online conference to discuss Isaac Julien's aesthetics of political remembering
On the occasion of the exhibition of three-screen film installation Western Union: Small Boats at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase... Read more -
Isaac Julien in Conversation with Sarah Thornton
In conversation and a tour of Isaac Julien's America at Jessica Silverman Gallery Conversation between Isaac Julien & Sarah Thornton from Jessica Silverman on Vimeo . Shot on March 14, 2020, by Dana... Read more
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Murals of La Jolla
Isaac Julien's ECLIPSE (PLAYTIME), 2013 on display at 7569 Girard Avenue, La Jolla Isaac Julien's mural, ECLIPSE (Playtime), is now displayed at 7569, Girard Avenue, La Jolla; as part of La Murals of... Read more -
Black Refractions coming soon to The Frye Art Museum
With works in all media by nearly eighty artists dating from the 1920s the present, Black Refractions presents close to... Read more
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Isaac Julien's America at Jessica Silverman Gallery
13 March - 25 April 2020'Isaac Julien's America' will be on show at Jessica Silverman Gallery from March 13-April 25, 2020. A solo show of... Read more -
Better Life at REDCAT
Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves) to be shown at the REDCAT Theatre in LAMarch 4, 2020Isaac Julien and Mark Nash will introduce a screening of Better Life at REDCAT - a single-channel version of the... Read more
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Derek Screening at Folkestone's Strangelove Festival
The fifth edition of the Strangelove Festival at Folkestone Creative is on its way. From the 20th-22nd March the festival... Read more -
Trinh T. Minh-ha is on our minds
Isaac Julien in conversation with Trinh T. Minh-haFebruary 28, 2020Isaac Julien continues a conversation with Trinh T. Minh-ha on interdisciplinarity, the moving image, and contemporary culture in filmmaking that... Read more
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Better Life exhibited along video works from the Wemhöner Collection
"Sehnsucht und Fall" curated by Philipp Bollmann25 January - 29 February 2020The exhibition “Sehnsucht und Fall” (Longing and Fall), curated by Philipp Bollmann, shows video works from the Wemhöner Collection. In... Read more -
MODERN SOUTH ON DEBATE AT MOMA
A two-day symposium organised by the Museum of Modern Art New York, will discuss the cultural legacy of South America... Read more
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Isaac Julien joins the Art Fund campaign for Jarman's creative sanctuary
On the windswept shore of Dungeness, visionary British filmmaker, artist and activist Derek Jarman transformed a Victorian fisherman’s hut into... Read more -
Isaac Julien, most influential artists of 2019
Artsy celebrates Isaac Julien's career and achievements in 2019 as he is shortlisted amongst the most influential artists of the year Few artists have done more to push video art forward in recent years than Isaac Julien, and in 2019, it... Read more
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...And more in Miami
In addition to the presentation of Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement at the curated section Meridians and the... Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach 2019: Isaac Julien at Meridians
5 - 8 December 2019In a selection by Magalí Arriola, Art Basel Miami new curated section Meridians brings together, in the words of the... Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2019: unveiling Lessons of the Hour single-screen
After having its ten-screen version presented by institutions such as SCAD and MAG Rochester, Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass... Read more -
Encore II (Radioactive) in Scotland
14 December 2019 - 22 March 2020Curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese, the group exhibition Seized by the Left Hand brings together artworks which, in... Read more
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Looking For Langston in Spain
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the iconic piece and following its presentations at Tate Britain and Metrograph New York, Isaac... Read more -
Looking For Langston: a 30-year celebration in New York
Celebrating 30 years of its creation, Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston was presented on a special session at Metrograph ,... Read more
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MACBA celebrating three decades of an iconic artwork
As a special edition of programme Focus , the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona is celebrating the 30 years... Read more -
The Attendant at ICA London
A double programme curated by Juliet Jacques at the Institute of Contemporary Art London presents highlights of experimental queer cinema... Read more
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The Broad's Annual Presentation for World AIDS Day
December 1, 2019For World AIDS Day 2019, The Broad presents a screening Isaac Julien’s short video, This is Not an AIDS Advertisement... Read more -
"TWO TOGETHER" at Zeitz MOCAA
A new exhibition selected from the Zeitz MOCAA permanent collection, 'Two Together' will show one of Isaac's works. This forms... Read more
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Hirshhorn Museum celebrates installation of Julien’s monumental photograph Pas de Deux No. 2 (Looking for Langston Vintage Series)
October 11, 2019Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden screens Looking for Langston during their Late Night event on Friday, October 11. One of... Read more -
Isaac Julien at Frieze London 2019
Featuring works from Isaac Julien's Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement and Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass, respectively,... Read more
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Sothebys Contemporary Art, Day Auction
Isaac Julien Donates 'Stones Against Diamonds' to Sotheby's to benefit Aortic Centre Trust Isaac Julien donates single screen 'Stones Againsts Diamonds' to the upcoming Sothebys Contemporary Art Day Auction in benefit of the... Read more -
'Lessons of the Hour' 5-screen debut in Savannah
24 September - 15 December 2019Premiering on 24 September, the five-channel iteration of Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass has been specially commissioned by Savannah... Read more
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'Playtime' in Ruby City's inaugural programme
13 October 2019 - 2 August 2020Ruby City ’s inaugural programme will include an exhibition dedicated to Isaac Julien’s Playtime. On public view from 13 October... Read more -
'Rock My Soul' at Victoria Miro Gallery
2 October - 2 November 2019Curated by Isaac Julien for Victoria Miro Gallery, the group show Rock My Soul borrows its title from the eminent... Read more
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'Western Union: Small Boats' at the ICA Boston
23 October 2019 - 26 January 2020Featuring Isaac Julien's three-screen film installation Western Union: Small Boats, the group exhibition When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration... Read more -
Young Soul Rebels at Outfest UCLA Legacy Project Screening Series
Winner of the Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1991, Young Soul Rebels plunges us into the London of 1977, seen... Read more
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'Young Soul Rebels' at the BFI
“Why are British films not angrier about the state of the country? ” The inquisitive headline of Geoffrey Macnab's piece... Read more -
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Mask | Locarno Film Festival
August 1, 2019The Black Light Retrospective at the Locarno72 'intends to go beyond the concept of Black as identity or social issue... Read more
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Isaac Julien for Metal Magazine
In the wake of Playtime opening at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Marina Pérez dives into the rich... Read more -
A Marvellous Entanglement on GloboNews
Ahead of the final week of the exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery, Brazilian network GloboNews aired a piece about Isaac... Read more
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Baltimore at the Baltimore Museum of Art
14 July 2019 - 5 January 2020Until 5 January 2020, Isaac Julien's Baltimore can be seen in a particularly appropriate setting: the Baltimore Museum of Art... Read more -
Performa Archive presents 'Cast No Shadow'
20 June - 10 November 2019Bringing together iconic works created for and presented at the biennial Performa in New York, the exhibition Performa Archive at... Read more
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Artforum: subject lessons
A review of Lessons of the Hour In a review piece for Artforum , Ciarán Finlayson highlights the ingenious architecture of the series' installation and, in his... Read more -
In conversation with Maria Balshaw
At the Late at Tate Britain series As part of the Late at Tate Britain series, a discussion between Isaac Julien and Tate director Maria Balshaw, taking... Read more
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On facts and fiction
Conference in Venice to feature 'The Leopard: Western Union Small Boats' Organised by Zuecca Projects Venice, On Facts and Fiction: Analyzing Propaganda and Fake News in the 21st century is a... Read more -
A 'Total immersion' in Bo Bardi's world
The Contemporary Art Society take on Isaac Julien's A Marvellous Entanglement A recent article by the director of Contemporary Art Society, Caroline Douglas, highlights the immersive nature of Isaac Julien's poetic... Read more
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A Marvellous Entanglement at the RA Magazine
In addition to including an artwork from Isaac Julien's series Radioactive Avatar in its latest Summer Exhibition, the Royal Academy... Read more -
Radioactive Avatar at the RA Summer Exhibition
10 June - 12 August 2019Featuring over 1,500 artworks, most of which on display for the first time, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019 was... Read more
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A Marvellous Entanglement world première
Victoria Miro Gallery7 June - 27 July 2019Inspired by one of Brazil's most influential architects, Li na Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement , which Victoria Miro... Read more -
The Leopard at Kunsthal KAdE
Kunsthal Kade, Netherlands25 May - 1 September 2019Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Kunsthal KAdE , in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has organised Videoland, an exhibition featuring 11 films that in... Read more
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Looking for Langston at the Tate
11 May - 17 November 2019Marking the acquisition of one of Isaac Julien's most iconic artworks, Tate Britain has included Looking for Langston in its... Read more -
Playtime at LACMA
Exhibition and symposium5 May - 11 August 2019LACMA , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the western United States, has recently included... Read more
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Wallpaper limited edition cover
June issue to feature new work by Isaac Julien This June, Wallpaper magazine readers can have a little preview of Isaac Julien's new multi-screen installation Lina Bo Bardi -... Read more -
'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask' in California
Including screenings and Q&A with Isaac Julien and Mark Nash23 - 25 May 2019Organised by MATATU Oakland (California) and The Roxie Cinema San Francisco, a series of special screenings of Isaac Julien's Frantz... Read more
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Isaac Julien and Mark Nash to join Faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz
April 2, 2019Isaac Julien and Mark Nash will work together on developing the Isaac Julien Lab at the UC Santa Cruz campus,... Read more -
Playtime in Hypervisibility at The Palazzo Dugnani
4 April - 14 May 2019Sheltered by the ceiling frescos in the Palazzo Dugnani, Hypervisuality features six films from the Wemhöner Collection - including Isaac... Read more
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Looking for Langston at Ruby City
28 February - 11 August 2019Ruby City is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by renowned filmmaker and installation artist, IsaacJulien, CBE RA opening... Read more -
The Sea is History at The Museum of Cultural History, Oslo
Showing Paradise Omeros7 March - 19 August 2019Featuring the work of Isaac Julien, John Akomfrah, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Andrea Chung, Christopher Cozier, Manthia Diawara, Naiza Khan, Hew... Read more
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Lessons of the Hour at Metro Pictures New York
Ten-screen film installation and a new photographic series8 March - 13 April 2019Isaac Julien's visionary ten-screen film installation Lessons of the Hour explores the incomparable achievements of America's foremost abolitionist figure. Frederick... Read more -
Lessons of the Hour at MAG Rochester
World-premiere of the ten-screen film installation3 February - 12 May 2019The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the exhibition Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass... Read more
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'Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum, Harlem'
Travelling Exhibition16 January - 13 December 2019The Studio Museum in Harlem is partnering with The American Federation of Arts (AFA) to present Black Refractions: Highlights from... Read more -
'Groundings' at MCA Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA3 November 2018 - 12 May 2019Groundings explores movement—both seen and unseen—through a series of residencies with artists who work in dance, music, and performance art.... Read more
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'Isaac Julien: The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats)' at the Block Museum
The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, IL, USA26 January - 14 April 2019Isaac Julien’s groundbreaking 2007 video installation The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats) presents a lyrical and visceral meditation on histories... Read more -
'The Attendant' at the Berlinale, February 2019
Panorama40, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany This year, the Berlinale Film Festival presents a special Panorama programme from its 40-year history, including two screenings of Isaac... Read more
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'Michael Jackson: On The Wall' at the Grand Palais, Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, France28 November 2018 - 14 February 2019This landmark exhibition tours to the Grand Palais from the National Gallery, London, and explores the influence of Michael Jackson... Read more -
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston at the Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA5 October 2018 - 3 February 2019In conjunction with I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 , this exhibition presents Isaac Julien’s landmark 1989... Read more
