NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery inaugurated its Los Angeles gallery this September with a solo exhibition dedicated to artist and filmmaker Steve MᶜQueen. On view from September 23 through November 4, 2023, the exhibition features the U.S. premiere of the immersive video installation Sunshine State (2022) by McQueen. A solo presentation of work by Cristina Iglesias, marking the artist’s first major exhibition in LA, will open subsequently at the Gallery in November, followed by exhibitions of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tony Cragg planned for later this winter.

The opening of Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles builds on the Gallery’s longstanding history of supporting the city’s artists, collectors, and institutions. At the same time, the launch of the Gallery’s permanent home on the West Coast marks an exciting new chapter for the Gallery that includes the forthcoming move of its New York City headquarters to a historic building in Tribeca next year. With two major spaces anchoring each coast, and an ongoing program in Paris, Marian Goodman Gallery provides a critical platform for advancing new bodies of work and the creative practices of the leading contemporary artists of our time.

“Marian Goodman Gallery has always been a mission-driven gallery, with a primary goal of serving as an intellectual forum advancing the creative practices of our artists over the long-term. Complementing our ongoing programs in New York and Paris, our new home in Los Angeles will be a dynamic space of education and exchange within one of the most important arts communities in the world,” stated Philipp Kaiser, the Gallery’s President and Partner.

Adds Managing Partner Rose Lord, “We are thrilled to be inaugurating our new gallery with an exhibition dedicated to Steve MᶜQueen and with the U.S. premiere of the radical and personal Sunshine State, which incorporates footage from The Jazz Singer, the first-ever ‘talkie’ produced in Hollywood in 1927.”

Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Steve MᶜQueen exposes the fragility of the human condition. This exhibition follows the recent presentation of Grenfell at Serpentine South Gallery in London, as well as the forthcoming debut of his latest film Occupied City at Cannes Film Festival this month.

Steve MᶜQueen (1969 - ) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores universal themes, often addressing painful and challenging histories.

Awarded the Turner Prize in 1999, MᶜQueen has had his artwork presented at some of the most significant venues and museums around the world. His work has been featured in Documenta (1997 and 2002). He represented Great Britain at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and was 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); Whit worth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017). In 2019 he presented YEAR 3 at Tate Britain and had a major one person exhibition at Tate Modern in 2020, which toured to Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, in 2022. In April/May 2023, he presented Grenfell at the Serpentine South Gallery, London.

MᶜQueen has directed four feature films. 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. In 2020, he madeSmall Axe, an anthology of five films about London’s West Indian community and, in 2021, Uprising, a 3-part documentary with James Rogan, about the New Cross Fire in London in 1981. He has recently completed Occupied City, which is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023 and is in post production on Blitz, a new feature about the Second World War.

MᶜQueen was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011. He was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honors list. MᶜQueen was born in West London and is based in London and Amsterdam.