Isaac Julien

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Glass House (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 Endura Ultra photograph 70.87 x 94.49 inches 180 x 240 cm (MP# 81)

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Maiden of Silence (Ten Thousand Waves), 2011 Endura Ultra photograph 70.87 x 94.49 inches 180 x 240 cm (MP# 93)

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Glass House, Prism (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 2 Endura Ultra photographs 70.87 x 94.49 inches each 180 x 240 cm each (MP# 84)

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Green Screen Goddess (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 endura ultra photograph 70.87 x 94.49 inches 180 x 240 cm (MP# 82)

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Yishan Island, Dreaming (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 endura ultra photograph 70.87 x 94.49 inches 180 x 240 cm (MP# 83)

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Blue Goddess (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 endura ultra photograph 70.87 x 106.3 inches two parts 180 x 270 cm (MP# 78)

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Red Chamber Dream (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010 Two Endura Ultra photographs 70.87 x 90.55 inches (each image size) 180 x 230 cm 70.87 x 181.1 inches (total image size) 180 x 460 cm (MP# 92)

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Western Union Series No. 2 (Flight Towards Other Destinies 1), 2007 duratrans in lightbox 47.24 x 96.06 inches 120 x 244 cm (MP# 58)

Isaac JulienTen Thousand Waves

March 18 – April 30, 2011
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Isaac JulienWESTERN UNION: Small Boats

October 26 – November 17, 2007
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Isaac JulienLooking for Langston

April 15 – May 20, 2006
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Isaac JulienTen Thousand Waves

March 18 – April 30, 2011
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Isaac JulienWESTERN UNION: Small Boats

October 26 – November 17, 2007
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Isaac JulienLooking for Langston

April 15 – May 20, 2006
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Isaac JulienBaltimore

October 25 – November 29, 2003
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Currents 34: Isaac Julien

Milwaukee Art Museum
March 24 - February, 2013
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Ten Thousand Waves

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Downtown, Jacobs Building
February 25 - July 8, 2012
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Ten Thousand Waves

Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
February 17 - June 30, 2012
www.lindapacefoundation.org

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La Triennale: Intense Proximity(group show)

Palais de Tokyo, Paris
April 20 - August 26, 2012
www.latriennale.org

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Unfinished Journeys(group show)

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
March 16 - May 20, 2012
www.nasjonalmuseet.no

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This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s(group show)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
February 11 - June 3, 2012
www.mcachicago.org

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Bio Isaac Julien

www.isaacjulien.com

Filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien’s work is held in collections that include: Tate, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. His most recent film Ten Thousand Waves premiered at the 2010 Sydney Biennale and has gone on to be exhibited at venues throughout the world. Julien has participated in the Venice Biennale (2009); the 7th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008); Prospect 1, New Orleans (2008); and Performa 07, New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (2011); L’Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2011); Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo (2011); The Bass Museum, Miami (2010); Helsinki Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki (2010); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2008); Kestnergesellschart, Hannover, (2006) Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005).

Art Review (2010)

Artforum (2010)

Modern Painters (2008)

Bomb (2007)

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