STEVE MCQUEEN RETROSPECTIVE AND DIALOGUE ANNOUNCED AT WALKER ART CENTER OCTOBER 30NOVEMBER 9 PLUS REGIONAL PREMIERE OF NEW FILM 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Minneapolis, September 4, 2013The Walker Art Center film dialogue and retrospective program presents Steve McQueen, October 30 through November 9, 2013. A radical video artist and filmmaker, McQueen is one of Britains most influential artists. Hailed in a 2010 New York Times headline as an Intense Seeker of Powerful Elegance, McQueen has become known for his formalism and his willingness to engage with controversial content in powerfully human ways. A dialogue takes place at 8 pm on Saturday, November 9 and marks the artists first visit to the Walker. Films in the retrospective include the regional premiere of 12 Years a Slave, Shame, and Hunger. All events take place in the Walker Cinema and tickets go on sale to the general public on September 17.

Retrospective and Dialogue with Steve McQueen
OCTOBER 30 NOVEMBER 9, 2013

12 Years a Slave
Directed by Steve McQueen
Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 pm
$12 ($10 for Walker members, students and seniors)

Hunger
Directed by Steve McQueen
Fridays, November 8, 7:30 pm
$9 ($7 for Walker members, students and seniors)

Shame
Directed by Steve McQueen
Wednesday, November 6, 7:30 pm
$9 ($7 for Walker members, students and seniors)

Walker Dialogue with Steve McQueen
Saturday, November 9, 8 pm
$25 ($20 for Walker members, students and seniors)

Born in London in 1969, Steve McQueen came to art with an intense interest in painting, inspired by the works of Burra, de Kooning, and Basquiat. He attended the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College, followed by a year at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, during which time he discovered film and the power contained within the moving image as an expressive medium across time. First garnering international attention for his thesis film Bear in 1993, McQueen has produced a series of densely meaningful, deeply challenging work across still and moving image media.

Since winning the prestigious Turner Prize in 1999, McQueens artistic versatility has, in recent years, allowed him to successfully navigate the crossover from the gallery world to feature filmmaking, winning the Caméra d'Or award for first-time filmmakers at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for Hunger, which was part of the Walkers First Look series in 2009. McQueens 16mm film installation, Running Thunder, was also included in the 2009 Walker exhibition The Quick and the Dead, and surveyed in the companion publication.

In the last decade, McQueens work has been shown extensively around the world and was recently featured in a twenty year retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2002, has participated in Documenta XI, and was selected as the artist to represent Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

The Walker Art Center is supported in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the State's general fund and its arts and cultural heritage fund and its arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

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