Turner Prize
Annual prize presented to a British visual artist
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| 2025 | Participated in the sixth series of The Masked Singer as 'Kingfisher', being eliminated in the sixth episode. |
| 2024 | Directed the World War II drama 'Blitz'. |
| 2024 | McQueen was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize. |
| 2024 | Reported by The Guardian to have donated £180,000 to the Labour Party. |
| December 3 2024 | During the Turner Prize ceremony at Tate Britain, Delaine Le Bas's installation was scrutinized for potential plagiarism, with artist Edgeworth Johnstone protesting outside the venue. |
| December 3 2024 | Jasleen Kaur was announced as the winner of the Turner Prize, receiving £25,000 for her animations of everyday objects. |
| November 22 2024 | Scheduled streaming release of Blitz on Apple TV+. |
| November 1 2024 | Scheduled release of Blitz in select cinemas in the United Kingdom and United States. |
| October 2024 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, jointly awarded with his spouse Bianca Stigter for bringing significant social and historical themes to a broad audience. |
| October 22 2024 | Screening of Blitz at the Chicago International Film Festival. |
| October 9 2024 | World premiere of Blitz, a film written, directed, and produced by McQueen, as the opening film of the BFI London Film Festival. |
| April 24 2024 | Turner Prize nominees for 2024 were announced: Jasleen Kaur, Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, and Delaine Le Bas. |
| 2023 | McQueen directed the short film 'Grenfell'. |
| 2023 | McQueen directed the documentary film Occupied City. |
| 2023 | Premiered the documentary Occupied City at the Cannes Film Festival, focusing on the occupation of Amsterdam during WWII. |
| 2023 | Knighted in the New Year Honours for services to the arts. |
| 2023 | Exhibition 'Grayson Perry: Smash Hits' at National Galleries Scotland, with an accompanying catalogue. |
| 2022 | Steve McQueen received his knighthood at Windsor Castle in March 2022. |
| April 12 2022 | The Turner Prize nominees were announced, with Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, and Sin Wai Kin selected as candidates. Veronica Ryan was subsequently named the winner of the prize. |
| 2021 | Public nominations for the Turner Prize continue to be suspended due to COVID-19 lockdown uncertainties. |
| 2021 | He directed the BBC documentary series Uprising. |
| 2021 | Received the Erasmus Prize for his unique visual language and approach to art that demonstrates art's accessibility to everyone. |
| December 1 2021 | Array Collective was announced as the winners of the Turner Prize, hosted in Coventry, with other nominees including Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. |
| February 2021 | Began the second series of 'Grayson's Art Club' in February. |
| 2020 | Steve McQueen was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to film. |
| 2020 | McQueen was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to art and film. |
| 2020 | The films Mangrove and Lovers Rock from the Small Axe anthology were selected for the Cannes Film Festival, which was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Lovers Rock was recognized as the top-ranked film in Sight and Sound's best films of 2020. |
| 2020 | Broadcast 'Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip' on Channel 4, exploring American social divisions by crossing the US on a motorbike. |
| 2020 | Presented 'Grayson's Art Club' during the COVID-19 pandemic, encouraging viewers to create and share artworks from lockdown. |
| November 2020 | Release of the anthology series Small Axe on BBC One and Amazon Prime Video, premiering weekly. |
| October 2020 | In October 2020, McQueen stated that he experienced racism 'every day' and voiced his support for the George Floyd protests. |
| June 2020 | In June 2020, McQueen accused the UK film and television industry of racism and lack of diversity in an op-ed for the Guardian, expressing concern over the racial makeup of a TV-film set he visited. |
| May 2020 | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Turner Prize was replaced with a bursary program, with 10 artists to be announced in July instead of the traditional award competition. |
| 2019 | The Turner Prize was hosted at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent, with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani being jointly awarded the prize after requesting to be considered as a single collective group. |
| 2019 | Stagecoach is announced as lead sponsor, but the sponsorship is quickly terminated after controversy over the chairman's previous political stances. |
| 2019 | Announcement of Small Axe, an anthology series of five films created and directed by McQueen, set within London's West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early '80s. |
| 2018 | Charlotte Prodger was awarded the Turner Prize, with a shortlist of four video artists: Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger, and Luke Willis Thompson. The shortlist was selected by a jury including Oliver Basciano, Elena Filipovic, Lisa Le Feuvre, and Tom McCarthy. |
| 2018 | He directed the contemporary crime thriller Widows. |
| 2018 | Awarded City Lit fellowship as part of the Mental Wealth Festival. |
| 2018 | Explored Rites of Passage in a four-part Channel 4 documentary series, comparing how people in the UK deal with life events like death, marriage, birth, and coming of age. |
| February 2018 | Exhibition 'Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perry's Dresses' concludes at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. |
| January 2018 | Exhibition 'Grayson Perry: The Life of Julie Cope' is held at Firstsite in Colchester, Essex, running from January to February. |
| 2017 | Lubaina Himid was awarded the Turner Prize at the exhibition held in Hull's Ferens Art Gallery during Hull UK City of Culture 2017. She was selected as the winner among nominees Lubaina Himid, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hurvin Anderson, and Andrea Büttner. |
| 2017 | Age restriction was removed, allowing artists of all ages to be eligible for the Turner Prize. |
| 2017 | The Switch House was renamed the Blavatnik Building after Sir Leonard Blavatnik's substantial financial contribution. |
| 2017 | Published 'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!' catalogue to accompany an exhibition of recent works. |
| 2017 | Produced 'Grayson Perry: Divided Britain' for Channel 4, exploring the public divide over Brexit and inspiring his pottery works. |
| 2017 | Delivered the inaugural Orwell Lecture in the North for The Orwell Foundation, titled 'I've read all the academic texts on empathy'. |
| 2017 | Crafts Council Touring Exhibition of 'Julie Cope's Grand Tour: The Story of a Life' with a published catalogue featuring tapestry illustrations. |
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