In Playtime, he aims the camera at the art world and offers a critical/satirical view of art's entanglement with 'big money'. These are topics that relate to Julien personally. Equally important to him, however, is the language in which such themes can be portrayed in film. His films are consequently a reflection, too, on the medium itself.
—De Pont Museum
Exhibition Dates: 31 January – 31 May 2015
Isaac Julien Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 2024-25
Isaac Julien Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Group Show, The Winter Bride
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023
Isaac Julien What Freedom Is To Me
K21, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2023-24
Isaac Julien What Freedom Is To Me
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom, 2023
Thinking Historically in the Present
Sharjah Biennial 15, 2023
Isaac Julien Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2022
Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour
John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia, 2022
Isaac Julien Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2022
Isaac Julien Intermezzo: Isaac Julien
ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2018
Isaac Julien 'Film-Noir Angels' Looking For Langston
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018
Isaac Julien Playtime
Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, 2017-18
Isaac Julien Refuge
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016
Isaac Julien Playtime & Kapital
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, 2016
Isaac Julien Stones Against Diamonds
Elisabethenkirche, Basel, Switzerland, 2015
Isaac Julien Stones Against Diamonds
Rolls-Royce Arts Programme, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice, 2015
Isaac Julien Riot
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2015
Isaac Julien Western Union: Small Boats (The Leopard)
Urban Video Project, New York, 2014
Isaac Julien PLAYTIME
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014
Isaac Julien Ten Thousand Waves
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013-14
Isaac Julien Retrospektive Isaac Julien, Western Union: Small Boats
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, 2013
Isaac Julien Better Life / Ten Thousand Waves II
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2012
Isaac Julien Currents 34: Isaac Julien
Milwaukee Art Museum, 2012-13
Isaac Julien Ten Thousand Waves
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2012
Group Show, Groups Who
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011-12
Isaac Julien Ten Thousand Waves
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, 2011-12
Isaac Julien Isaac Julien Creative Caribbean Network
The Bass Museum, Miami, 2010-11
Isaac Julien Ten Thousand Waves
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010
Isaac Julien Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien's True North
Akron Art Museum, Ohio, 2010
Isaac Julien Ten Thousand Waves
17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009-10
Isaac Julien True North
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Isaac Julien The Film Art of Isaac Julien
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), 2001
Group Show, Young British Artists
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1996