Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

www.isaacjulien.com


Born in 1960, in England; lives and works in London. Attended Les Entrepreneurs de L'Audiovisuel European (EAVE), 1989, Brussels (Post-Doctoral); Central St. Martin's School of Art, 1984, BA Fine Art Film (1st Class Honors).

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010
"Ten Thousand Waves," Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
"Ten Thousand Waves," ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2009
"Western Union: Small Boats," The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
"Te Tonga Tuturu/True South (Apparatus)," Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
"Western Union: Small Boats," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2008
"WESTERN UNION: Small Boats," Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (2008-2009)
"Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty," (curated by Isaac Julien), Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (cat.)
"Fantôme Afrique," University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
2007
"True North," Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
"WESTERN UNION: Small Boats," Metro Pictures, New York (and 2003, 2006); Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid (2007-2008)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006
"Fantôme Afrique," The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, Denver
"Looking for Langston," W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge
"Currents 99," St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
"Isaac Julien: True North – Fantome Afrique," Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
"Expeditions: Fantome Afrique & True North," Brandstrom Strene, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
"Isaac Julien," Victoria Miro Gallery, London (and 2003, 2000, 1999)
"Isaac Julien: True North," MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (cat.)
"Isaac Julien," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Paradise Omeros, Vagabondia, Mazatlan) (cat.)
"Isaac Julien: Fantome Creole," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)
"Isaac Julien," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Paradise Omeros)
"Isaac Julien," VIVO Open Air, Sao Paulo, Brasil (cat.)
2004
"Paradise Omeros," "Three," and "Frantz Fanon," Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
"Isaac Julien," Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (cat.)
"Isaac Julien," GL Strand Kunstoreningen, Denmark (Paradise Omeros, Vagabondia, Radioactive)
"Black Atlantic," House of World Cultures, Berlin (True North, Paradise Omeros)
"Baltimore," The Contemporary, Baltimore
"Baltimore" and "Baltimore Series," Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
"Baltimore," TENTCentrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam
"Baltimore," Eyebeam, New York (single screen)
2003
"Paradise Omeros & Before Paradise," Bohen Foundation, New York
"Baltimore," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris; Metro Pictures, New York; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
"Trussed," Sketch, London
"Baltimore" and "Paradise Omeros," Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Art Pace, San Antonio
"Fact, Film Art & Creative Technology," Liverpool
2001
Isaac Julien, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Isaac Julien, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000
"Cinerama," Corner House Museum, Manchester, touring to South London Gallery
"The Long Road to Mazatlan," Grand Arts, Kansas City
"Vagabondia," The Studio Museum, New York
"The Long Road to Mazatlan," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"The Film Art of Isaac Julien," Bard Curatorial College, Annandale on Hudson, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden; Henie Onstad Museum, Norway; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco
1999
"The Long Road to Mazatlan," Art Pace, San Antonio
"Fanon S.A.," The Arena, Oxford Brookes University

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010
"Fast Forward 2: The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz," ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (cat.)
"The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age," 17th Biennale of Sydney
"Julia Stoschek Collection: I Want To See How You See," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Desire," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
"Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic," Tate Liverpool; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2009
"The Moving Image: Scan To Screen, Pixel to Projection," The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
"Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections," Guggenheim Musuem, Bilbao (2009-2010)
"Making Worlds," Venice Biennale
2008
"Gustos, Colecciones y Cintas de Vídeo," Centro de Arte dos de Mayo, Madrid (2008-2009)
"7th Gwangju Biennale," Gwangju, Korea (cat.)
"Prospect: 1 Biennial," New Orleans (2008-2009)
"The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Part II: Realisms," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (cat.)
Western Bridge, Seattle
2007
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard, New York (cat.)
"Video: An Art," Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney; Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2006
"A Short History of Performance," Whitechapel, London
"Message Personnel," Yvon Lambert, Paris (and 2002)
"Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now," Tate Liverpool
Videodanse 2006, Centre George Pompidou
"Une Vision du Monde," curated by Christine Van Assche, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2005
"Temps de Video," Fundacio "La Caixa," works from the collection of the Pompidou, Barcelona
"The Projected Image," Tate Modern, London (Encore: Paradise Omeros)
2004
Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Badasssss Cinema)
"3'," Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt Germany
"Experiments with Truth," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (cat.)
"Utopia Station," Haus der Kunst Munchen, Germany (Lost Boundaries)
Busan Biennale, Korea (Baltimore)
2003
"Double Vision," Photo Espana, Madrid
"Independence," South London Gallery
"Utopia Station Poster Project," 50th Venice Biennale; Haus der Kunst, Münich; Secession, Vienna
"Edinburgh International Film Festival," Edinburgh College of Art
"East Wing Collection," Courtauld Institute of Art, London
"Love/Hate," Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteroewisheim, Germany
"Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz," ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
"Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance," Tate Liverpool (cat.)
2002
"The Future of Cinema," ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
"New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo
The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001
"Enduring Love," Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert Inc., New York
"The Short Century," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, touring to Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Unpacking Europe," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum Boijmans Von Beuningen, Rotterdam
"ARSO1," Kiasma/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
"Turner Prize," Tate Gallery, London
"Strength and Diversity: African American Artists," Harvard University, Cambridge (and 2000)
"Raw," Victoria Miro Gallery, London (and 2000)
1999
"Rhapsodies in Black," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1998
"Rhapsodies in Black," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1997
"Rhapsodies in Black," The Hayward Gallery, London; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (1998); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (1998); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1999)
"Scream and Scream Again," The Irish Museum of Modern Art (cat.); Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art
"2nd Johannesburg Biennale" (cat.)
"The Look Of Love," The Approach, London & Southampton City Art Gallery
"Beauty and the Beast," Banff Centre for the Arts, Vancouver
1996
"Hotter Than July," The Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
"Scream and Scream Again," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
"British Art Now," Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
"New Histories," ICA, Boston (cat.)
"AIDS World," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve (cat.); Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Ticino, Switzerland
1995
"Mirage: Enigma of Race," Difference and Desire, ICA, London (cat.)
1993
"Abject art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
1991
Walker Art Gallery, Patrick Cabaret, Minneapolis
1990
"Edge 90," Various Sites: London and Newcastle (cat.)

Installations:
2007
"Western Union: Small Boats," Five screen projection, 35 mm color film, DVD/HD transfer, 5.1 SR sound, 31.02 min
2004
"True North," Triple screen projection, 16mm color film, DVD transfer, Sound. 14 min.
2003
"Baltimore," Triple screen projection. 16mm black & white/color film, DVD transfer, Sound. 11.36 min
2002
"Paradise Omeros," Triple screen projection. 16mm black & white/color film, DVD transfer, Sound. 20.29 min.
1999
"Three," Single screen projection.16mm, sepia/color film, Sound 20min.
"Conservators Dream," Triple screen projection. 16mm, sepia/color film, video transfer. Sound. 6 min.
"Long Road to Mazatlan," Triple screen rear projection. 16mm, sepia/color film, video transfer. Sound. 20min
1997
"Fanon SA," Double screen projection. 16mm, color film, video transfer. Sound. 10 min.
1996
"Trussed," Double screen projection 16mm, black & white film, video transfer. Sound. 10 min.
1995
"Cartooned Life," Series of seven photographs, linotronic print.x.

Documentaries and Feature Films:

2007
"Western Union: Small Boats," 35 mm color film, DVD/HD transfer, 5.1 SR sound, 31.02 min
2004
"True North," (single screen), 16mm black & white/color film, DVD transfer. Sound. 14.20 min
"Encore II (Radioactive)," 16mm, Super 8 / Digital Betacam, 3 min
2003
"Baltimore," 16mm black & white/color film, DVD transfer. Sound, 12.43 min.
2002
"BaadAsssss Cinema," DVD 56 min.
Paradise Omeros," 16 mm black & white/color film, DVD transfer. Sound, 20 min.
1999
"The Conservators Dream," 16mm, color film, video transfer. Sound, 4 min.
1996
"Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Mask," 35mm, color film. Sound, 73 min.
1995
"That Rush!," 16mm, color film, video transfer. Sound. 7 min.
1994
"The Darker Side of Black," 16mm, color film. Sound. 59 min.
1993
"The Attendant," 35mm, color film. Sound. 10 min.
1991
"Young Soul Rebels," 35mm, color film. Sound. 105 min
1989
"Looking For Langston," 16mm, black & white film. Sound. 40 min.
1987
"This is Not an AIDS Advertisement," Super 8 color film, video transfer. Sound. 14 min.
1986
"The Passion of Remembrance," 16mm, color film. Sound. 95 min.
1984
"Territories," 16mm, color film. Sound. 25 min

Selected Bibliography:

2010
Mathieu Borysevicz, "Screenings: China Imagined," Art in America, September, pp. 57-60, cover
Ingvild Goetz and Stephan Urbaschek (ed.), Fast Forward 2: The Power of Motion Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art and Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, pp. 10-11, 96-107, 276-277
Gao Shiming, "Inextricable Entanglements: On Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves," Art- it.com, July 2
Andrew Maerkle, "Isaac Julien: Not Global, Trans-Local," Art-it.com, July 2
Rosa Olivares, 100 Video Artists, Exit Publications, Madrid, pp. 242-245
2009
Isaac Julien Western Union: Small Boats, Issac Julien (ed.), Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zamek, Warsaw; Koenig Books, London, pp. 116
2008
Okwui Enwezor (ed.), The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation and BOM Publishing, Gwangju, Korea, pp. 212-215
Isaac Julien, "What is Art For? Changing and Enhancing Lives," Frieze, April, pp. 192
Nancy Princenthal, "Isaac Julien, 'Cast No Shadow' at BAM," Art in America, March, pp. 52
Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty, (curated by Isaac Julien), Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books Ltd, London, pp. 96
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., pp. 107-109
Barbara A. MacAdam, "Isaac Julien," Art News, March, pp. 143
Alan Gilbert, "Isaac Julien: Metro Pictures," Modern Painters, February, pp. 91
David Frankel, "Isaac Julien," Artforum, February, pp. 288
2007
RoseLee Goldberg, "Yvonne Rainer and Isaac Julien: Learning How To Wear It," Flash Art, November/December, pp. 84-87
Martha Schwendener, "Art in Review: Isaac Julien," The New York Times, November 2, pp. E33
RoseLee Goldberg, "The World is Flat," Art Asia Pacific, September/October, pp. 150-153
Martina Kudlácek, "Isaac Julien," Bomb, Fall 2007, Number 101, pp. 72-79
Wrestle: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, pp. 179-183
2006
Shamin Momin, "Conversations with the Artist," Lorna Simpson, Abrams, New York, pp. 132-141
2005
Kimberli Meyer, ed., Isaac Julien: True North, MAK Center, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
James Quandt, FILM BEST OF 2005, ARTFORUM International, December, p. 61
Tim Davis, "A Major Minor Art, in A-Flat Minor," Blind Spot, Summer, pp. 30-45
Isaac Julien, ed. Paulette Gagnan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal Christopher Knight, "Chilling images of an icy beyond," Los Angeles Times Calendar, 5 August
Christine Van Asshe, "Isaac Julien," Centre Pompidou, Paris (cat)
Malcolm Le Grice, "Isaac Julien," Frieze, October, pp. 215-216
Isaac Julien, "Whose Black World?," Time Out, 25 May
Tim Davis, "A Major Minor Art, in A-Flat Minor," Blind Spot, Summer, pp. 30-45
Sean Kissane, Isaac Julien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (cat)Christopher Miles, "Isaac Julien," Artforum, November, pp. 2592004
Calvin Reid, "Funk Renaissance," Art in America, March, pp. 92-95
Isaac Julien, "Oedipus Directs – Isaac Julien on Baadasssss!," Artforum, Summer, p. 55
Armond White, "Isaac Julien's Baltimore," Link, London, Fall, pp. 28-36
Yann Beauvais, "Snow Queen," Art Press, Paris, October, pp. 44-49
Isaac Julien, "Oedipus Directs – Isaac Julien on Baadasssss!," Artforum, Summer, pp. 55
2003
Alfred Hickling, "Isaac Julien: Fact Liverpool," Guardian Unlimited, London, March
"Answer the Questions, Isaac Julien," The Independent, London, 9 March
John Russell Taylor, "The Matter of Fact," The Times, London, 12 March
Louisa Buck, "Isaac Julien: Baltimore Fact, Liverpool," The Art Newspaper, London, March
Chris Kaltenbach, "You could call Him a Renaissance Man," Los Angeles Times
Andrea K. Scott, "Isaac Julien, Paradise Omeros," Time Out New York, 24-31 July, p. 47
Roberta Smith, "Art in Review, Isaac Julien, Paradise Omeros," New York Times, 11 July, p. E30
David Frankel, "Isaac Julien, Bohen Foundation," Artforum, October, pp. 169-170
Thomas Boutoux, "Isaac Julien- Yvon Lambert," Flash Art, Milan, October, p. 123
Ellen McBreen, "Isaac Julien, Yvon Lambert, Paris," Tema Celeste, Milan, September/October, p. 96
Laura Passetti, "Isaac Julien goes to Museums," Arnet Arte, Milan, September/October, p. 28
Richard Dyer, "Reviews – Sketch/Victoria Miro," Contemporary, London, November
David Deitcher, "Sweetback Waxed," Time Out New York, 13-20 November, pp. 70-71
Morgan Falconer, "Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro Gallery, London," Frieze, London, November
"Is it a film? Is it a Video Installation?" The Times, London, 17 September
2002
Eleanor Heartney, "A 600-Hour Documenta," Art in America, September, pp. 87-95
Linda Nochlan, "Documented Success," Artforum, September pp. 161-163
James Meyer, "Tunnel Visions," Artforum, September, pp. 168-169
Mark Nash, "Wait Until Dark," Tate, London, November/December
Constanze Ruhm, "Spaces of Translation: Speaking one Language, Understanding Another, A Conversation with Isaac Julien," Camera Austria, no. 79, pp 17-28
Maite Lores, "Isaac Julien," Contemporary, London, June – August
B. Ruby Rich, "Still A soul Rebel," The Advocate, 14 May
B. Ruby Rich, "The Long Road: Isaac Julien in conversation with B. Ruby Rich," Art Journal, Summer
Michael Freidson, "Getting the Shaft," Time Out New York, 8-15 August
Edward Guthmann, "'Baad' Company," San Francisco Chronicle, 13 August
James Poniewozik, "Can You dig It? Right On!," Time, 19 August
Tunku Varadarajan, "Shaft and Foxy Revisited," Wall Street Journal, 9 August
Hal Hinson, "Birth of a Genre: the Black Hero Who Talks Back," New York Times, 9 August
Carly Berwick, "Isaac Julien," Vogue Homme International, Winter
2001
Lilly Wei, "Isaac Julien at the Studio Museum in Harlem," Art in America, September pp. 87-95
Dick Hebdige, "Isaac Julien, the Great Divide," Territories, Prince Claus Fund, Journal no. 7, pp. 20-21
Vasanthi Dass, "Vagabondia: Archiving the Archive," Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and Nai Publishers, pp. 350-355
2000
"Still Moving," Hotshoe International, January/February
Alice Thornson, "Lonesome cowboy: Issac Julien disrupts the western canon with gay-themed film at Grand Arts," Kansas City Star, 19 March
Okwui Enwezor, "Towards a Critical Cinema: The Films of Isaac Julien," Grand Arts, Kansas City, February
Erika Muhammad, "Reel Stories: Isaac Julien," Index, June/July
Susan Corrigan, "Dancing with Dudes," The Times, London, 12-18 August
Adrian Searle, "Winsome Cowboys," The Guardian, London, 22 August
Judith Palmer, "Once upon a time in the West," The Independent, London, 19 September
John L. Walters, "Noises at an Exhibition," The Guardian, London, 29 September
Holland Cotter, "Eros Cruises the Museum In a Filmmaker\'s Dreams," New York Times, 24 November
Lisa Katzman, "A World of Double Outsiders: Gay as Well as Black," New York Times, 26 November
1999
"Face to Interface: Isaac Julien," Sight and Sound, September
David Frankel & David Deitcher, Isaac Julien, Art Pace, San Antonio
Christy Adair & Ramsay Burt, "Two into the making to Three," Dance Theatre Journal, vol. 15, no. 2
Francesco Bonami & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dreams, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Italy
Catherine Elwes, "Isaac Julien," Art Monthly, London, June, pp. 35-37
1998
Roselee Goldberg, Performance and Live Art Since the 60\'s, Thames and Hudson, pp. 143
Richard J. Powell, Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century, Thames and Hudson, pp. 212-213
AIDS WORLDS: Between Resignation and Hope Centre d\'Art Contemporain, Switzerland, pp. 142-147
Olivier Barlet, "Frantz Fanon: Peau Noire, Masque Blanc," Africultures, Paris, December
Manthia Diawara, "Moving Company – the Second Johannesburg Biennale," Artforum, March, pp. 87-89
Michael Corns, Art and Text, London, November – January, pp. 54-59
1997
Izi Glover, "The Look of Love," Frieze, London, September/October
Richard Cork, "Mirage," The Times, London, 27 June
Robert Stam, "Permutations of the Fantonian Gaze Isaac Julien's "'Black Skin White Mask,'" Black Renaissance Noire, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer/Fall, pp. 186-192
1996
Eddie Chambers, "Johannesburg Biennale," Art Monthly, London, no. 212, pp. 14-18
Catherine Elwes, "The Big Screen," Art Monthly, London, no. 199, pp. 11-16
Alan Read (ed), "Film-makers' Dialogue," The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
Isaac Julien, "Black British Cinema – Diaspora Cinema, New Histories, pp. 60-64
Bell Hooks, "Thinking Through Class: Paying Attention to 'The Attendant''," Reel to Real: Race Sex and Class at the Movies, Routledge, pp. 91-97
Manthis Diawara, "Black British Cinema and Identity Formation in Territories," Black British Cultural Studies, University of Chicago Press, pp. 293-306
Isaac Julien & Kobena Mercer, "De Margin and De Centre," Black British Cultural Studies, University of Chicago Press, pp. 194-210
Richard Cork, "Scream and Scream Again," The Times, London, 6 August
Charles Gaines, "Hotter Than July," Art and Text, London, no. 55, pp. 84
Kaja Silverman, "The Ceremonial Image," The Threshold of the Visible, Routledge, pp. 104-121
Warren E. Crichlow, "Popular Music, Pedagogy and Cultural Politics in the Films of Isaac Julien," Discourse, London, vol. 16, no. 3
1995
Roy Grundmann, "Black Nationhood and the Rest in the West," Cineaste, New York, vol. 21, no. 1-2, pp. 28-31 (interview)
Bruce Morrow, "The Isaac Julien Interview," Callaloo, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 406-415
Kobena mercer, "Busy in the Ruins of a Wretched Phantasia," Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, ICA, London
1994
Jorg Heiser, "Batty Boys in Babylon," Spex, Germany, pp. 49-51
Isaac Julien, "Confessions of a Snow Queen: notes on the making of 'The Attendant'," Critical Quarterly, Spring
Isaac Julien & Jon Savage, "Critically Queer," Critical Quarterly, Spring
Kobena Mercer & Isaac Julien, "True confessions," Black Male Representations of Masculinity in contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of Art, pp. 191-200
1993
Jose Arroyo, "Look Back and Talk Black: The Films of Isaac Julien," Jump Cut,
translated into Japanese for ImageForum, April, pp. 88-97
Paul Gilroy, "Climbing the Racial Mountain, a Conversation with Isaac Julien," Small Acts:
Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures, University of Minnesota Press
Craig Hauser, "I, Abject," Abject Art, Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of Art, New York (cat.)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., "The Black Man\'s Burden," Fear of a Queer Planet, Queer Politics and Social Theory, University of Minnesota Press
1992
James Saynar, Interview Magazine, January, p. 24
1991
Adrian Searle, "Thumping Pleasure," Artscribe, London, November/December
Kobena Mercer, "Dark and Lovely," Ten Photo Paperback, vol. 2, no 1, pp. 78-86
Manthia Diawara, "The Absent One: The Avant-Garde and the Black Imaginary in 'Looking for Langston'," Wide Angle, July – October
1988
Young British and Black, a monograph on the work of Sankofa Film/Video Collective and Black Audio Collective, Discourses, Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, Coco Fusco, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Armond White, "Racing Ahead," Film Comment, pp. 2-4
"Black Film, British Cinema," ICA Documents 7, pp. 53-57
Sexuality and Vision: some Questions, Vision and Visuality, Jacqueline Rose, Dia Art Foundation, no. 2

Awards and Honors:

2003
Grand Jury Award, Kunst Film Biennale for "Baltimore"
2002
Eyebeam Artist's Award
Ford Foundation Award
Bohen Foundation Award
2001
The McDermott Award, MIT Cambridge Massachusetts
1999
Art Pace, International Artist in Residence, San Antonio, Texas
1998
"Andy Warhol Foundation Award," New York
"Erome Foundation Award"
1997
"Pratt and Whitney Canada Grand Prize," 15th international Festival of Films on Art for "Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Mask"
1996 Wexner Museum Fine Arts International Artist Award
1995
"Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Award," New York University, Center for Media, Culture and History
1993
"John McKnight International Artist Award," Minneapolis
1991
"Semaine de la Critique Prize, 'Young Soul Revels'," Cannes Film Festival

Museum and Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
The Margulies Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Tate Collection