Isaac Julien Lecture at Mills College

Isaac Julien
November 29, 2017
7:00 PM Lucie Stern Hall


Isaac Julien is a British filmmaker and installation artist who has exhibited internationally and won many awards for his work, including a half a dozen international awards for his seminal film Looking for Langston (1989). In 2001 he was nominated for the Turner Prize for The Long Road to Mazatlan and Vagabondia. Julien studied painting and fine art film at Central St Martin's School of Art, and is currently a member of faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Arts and Professor of Global Art at the University of the Arts, London. His work is in the collections of Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum, the Albright-Knox Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Norway, Brandhorst Collection, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Goetz Collection, the Louis Vuitton Art Foundation, LUMA Foundation, the Zeitz Foundation and the Kramlich Collection. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2016); the De Pont Museum, Netherlands (2015); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), and Art Institute of Chicago (2013). Julien lives and works in London.


Julien will be in the Bay Area opening the exhibition Playtime at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, which will show three films about the effects of capitalism, on view December 1st through February 11th 2018.

Supported by the Technology and Society Lecture Series.

Free and open to the public.







Image: Isaac Julien, Green Screen Goddess (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010. Endura Ultra photograph. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, London; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Metro Pictures, New york