Isaac Julien
Sir Isaac Julien is a British artist, born in 1960 in London, United Kingdom, and whose parents migrated to Britain from Saint-Lucia in the West Indies. He graduated from the Saint Martin’ s School of Art in 1984, receiving a BA in Fine-Art film. He was one of the leaders of a movement of English filmmakers in the mid-1980s that used video as an activist medium. He has received many awards including the Semaine de la Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted.
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