Steve McQueen is a British Artist who grew up in London and studied art and design at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Mr. McQueen did a limited stint at the Tisch School in New York. McQueen's films are done in black and white and are fairly minimalistic. His first film titled, "Bear" has two men (including Mr. McQueen) exchanging a series of glances which might infer a flirtation. He won the Turner Prize in 1999 submitting three films. Amongst the entries, The Prey which focuses on a tape recorder drifting into the air while the sound of tap dancing playing in the background), The Deadpan (Mr. McQueen is presented in the film as a Buster Keaton character where a house collapses around him leaving a window frame of Mr. McQueen) .In 2008, Mr. McQueen presented his film, "Hunger" about the last six weeks of the Irish Republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. This story presents mankind in a situation where the mind and the body is taken to the extreme limit.At presitigous Venice Biennial, McQueen represented the British government in their provided pavillion with his film, "Giradini" which was a tribute to the surrounding pavillion provide by the Italian government in Venice for artist from around the world.
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