Filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien KBE RA, was born in 1960 in London. Julien's recent international solo exhibitions include Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, 2022; Lessons of the Hour, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA, 2022; Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, USA; Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement, CentroCentro (Panorama Madrid), Madrid, Spain (2021); Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour, McAvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (2020-2021); Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement, MAXXI, Rome (2020-2021); Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats, Neuberger Museum, New York (2020); Isaac Julien: Frederick Douglass: Lessons of the Hour, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2019); Looking for Langston at Tate Britain (2019); and Playtime
