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Sir Isaac Julien CBE RA is a critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker. In 2018, Isaac joined the faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz where he is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and leads the Moving Image Lab together with Arts Professor Mark Nash. He has been making films and producing film installations for over forty years, including Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022), Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019), Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2019), Playtime (2014), Ten Thousand Waves (2010), Western Union: small boats (2007), True North (2004), Baltimore (2003), Paradise Omeros (2002), and Vagabondia (2000).
Current and recent international solo exhibitions include Lessons of the Hour, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024; What Freedom is to Me, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2024; K21, Dusseldorf, 2023; Tate Britain, London, 2023; Lina Bo Bardi, A Marvellous Entanglement, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2023; and Once Again… (Statues Never Die), Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 2022.
Isaac is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award 2017 and a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022. In 2022, he was awarded a Knighthood for services to diversity and inclusion in art.
Appointment information
- Appointed by: Prime Minister
- Appointment: 24/03/2025
- Term expires: 23/03/29