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Steve McQueen, Deadpan, 1997
Steve McQueen, Deadpan, 1997
Steve McQueen, Deadpan, 1997
Steve McQueen, Deadpan, 1997

Steve McQueen

Deadpan, 1997
16 mm black and white film, transferred to video, continuous play
4 minutes 35 seconds, no sound
edition of 4 + 1AP
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Provenance

The artist

Exhibitions

La Répitition, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, 15 February - 17 May 2015

Deadpan, 3rd International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, 31 July – 10 August 2014

Besser Schieten/Fail Better, Film + Video, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 1 March – 11 August 2013

Steve McQueen: Works, Schaulager Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1 March – 7 July 2013

Steve McQueen: Works, The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Chicago IL, 21 October 2012 – 6 January 2013

Contemporary Galleries. 1980-Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, 17 November 2011- 17 February 2014

Bild für Bild. Film und zeitgenössische Kunst/Image by Image. Film and Contemporary Art, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany, 18 December 2010 – 25 April 2011

CUE. Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 23 January – 21 March 2010

Traces of Time, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, 7 March – 30 May 2009

History in the Making. A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 25 April – 13 July 2008

Le mouvement des images/The Movement of Images, Musée national d’art modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 9 April 2006 – 27 January 2007

WOW. The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA, 6 November 2004 – 6 February 2005

Sudden Glory. Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA, 19 January – 9 March 2002

Seeing Time. Ausgewählte Arbeiten aus de Medienkunstsammlung von Pamela und Richard Kramlich, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 November 2000 – 22 April 2001

The Turner Prize 1999. An Exhibition of Work by the Shortlisted Artists: Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen, Steven Pippin, Jane and Louise Wilson, Tate Gallery, London, England, 20 October 1999 – 6 February 2000

Seeing Time. Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, 15 October 1999 – 9 January 2000

Steve McQueen, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela, 17 September – 26 October 2000; [travelled to: Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 16 November – 17 December 2000; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 26 April – 17 June 2001; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 21 June – 19 August 2001]

Mirror’s Edge, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, 21 November 1999 – 20 February 2000; [travelled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 18 March – 13 August 2000; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, 5 October 2000 – 14 January 2001; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, 2 March – 15 April 2001]

Steve McQueen, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, 12 June – 15 August 1999
Steve McQueen, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, 30 January - 21 March 1999

Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada, 23 April – 2 May 1998

Steve McQueen. Deadpan, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 24 January – 8 February 1998

Steve McQueen. Projects 62, The Project Room, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, 25 November 1997 – 10 February 1998

Life/live. La scène artistique au Royaume-Uni en 1996 de Nouvelles aventures, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, 5 October 1996 – 5 January 1997; [travelled to: Centro Cultural de Belém (now Museu Berardo), Lisbon, Portugal, 23 January – 21 April 1997]


Collections

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco CA

Literature

James, Catherine. Falling for Gravity, Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2018 pp. 139 ill.
Blocker, Janet., Becoming Past: History in contemporary art, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016
Besser Scheitern: Film + Video, Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2013

I want the screen to be a massive mirror, Basel: Schaulager Basel, Steudler Press, 2013 p. 62 ill.
Steve McQueen: Works, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; Basel: Schaulager Basel; Berlin: Kehrer, 2012 pp. 58, 74-75 ill.

History in the Making. A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2008 pp. 34-35
Michaud, Philippe-Alain., Le Mouvement des Images (The Movement of Images), Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006
Cork, Richard., Breaking Down the Barriers: art in the 1990s, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003 pp. 27
Sudden glory: sights gags and slapstick in contemporary art, San Francisco: California College of Arts and Crafts, 2002

Kystof, Doris, ed., Steve McQueen, texts by Gerald Matt, Doris Kystof, Thomas Miessgang and Ilka Becker, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2001 p. 50-51 ill.

Steve McQueen, Caracas: Sala Mendoza; Cape Town: Institute for Contemporary Art; São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2000 (n.p)

Enwezor, Okwui, ed., Il bordo dello specchio/Mirror’s edge, Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli, 2000
Button, Virginia, The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, London: Tate Publishing, 1999, p. 153 ill.

Van Noord, Gerrie, ed., Steve McQueen, texts by Robert Storr, Michael Newman and Okwui Enwezor, London: ICA; Zurich: Kunsthalle Zürich, 1999 p. 31 ill.

Button, Virginia, The Turner Prize, London: Tate Publishing, 1999, p. 155 ill.

Ross, David. A., Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich collection of Media Art, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999
Pagé, Suzanne, Laurence Bossé and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., Life/live: la scène artistique au Royaume-Uni en 1996 de Nouvelles aventures, Paris: Parise-Musées, 1996

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