Born in London, England in 1969, Steve McQueen is an artist, film director, and screenwriter currently based in London and Amsterdam. His themes are universal and often focus on painful biographies. He has directed four feature films, most recently Widows (2018). His first, Hunger (2008), was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and his third, 12 Years a Slave (2013), received the Golden Globe, Oscar, and BAFTA awards for Best Picture in 2014. McQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999, has been featured in Documenta (1997 and 2002), represented the national pavilion of Great Britain at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and has been selected several times for the Venice Biennale’s central pavilion (2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015). Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Schaulager, Basel (2013); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017). In 2019 he presented Year 3, a portrait of an entire age group of London schoolchildren, at Tate Britain, London. In 2020 he made Small Axe, an anthology film series about London’s West Indian community. In February 2020 a major solo exhibition opened at the Tate Modern, London and travelled to Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan in 2022. His film Grenfell was recently shown at Serpentine South Gallery, London.