Marian Goodman Gallery congratulates Steve McQueen on receiving the 2026 Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. The theme of this year’s Prize is Ecce Homo, Behold the Human Being.

Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Steve McQueen is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores universal themes, often addressing painful and challenging histories and exposes the fragility of the human condition.

He has had his artwork presented at some of the most significant venues and museums around the world.  Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Schaulager, Basel (2013); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017). In 2019 he presented YEAR 3 at Tate Britain and had a major one-person exhibition at Tate Modern in 2020 which toured to Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan in 2022.  In Spring 2023, he presented Grenfell at the Serpentine South Gallery, London. In 2024 MᶜQueen unveiled a new installation, “Bass,” co-commissioned by Dia and Schaulager Basel, at Dia Beacon in New York; “Sunshine State,” a project commissioned for the 52nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2023, was on view at Dia Chelsea in New York from September 2024–July 2025.

“Atlas,” McQueen’s first solo institutional exhibition in the Netherlands,  30 August 2026 at De Pont Museum, Tilburg.