Biography
He was born in New York City in 1951. In 1965 he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969-1973, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
In 1978 Schnabel traveled throughout Europe and in Barcelona was particularly moved by the architecture of Antonio Gaudi, the same year he made his first plate painting, “The Patients and the Doctors.” His first solo painting exhibition took place at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, in February 1979.
Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures and works on paper have been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at The Tate Gallery in London, The Foundation Joan Miro in Barcelona, the Palazzo Venezia in Rome and the Beijing World Art Museum, among others. Schnabel’s upcoming exhibition, “Permanently Becoming: Julian Schnabel and the Architecture of Seeing,” opens June 1st at the Museo Correr in Venice.
His work is included in the public collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The National Gallery in Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 1996 he wrote and directed the feature film Basquiat about fellow New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat. The film was distributed worldwide by Miramax films and was in the official selection of the 1996 Venice Film Festival. Schnabel’s second film, Before Night Falls, based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Colpa Volpi for best actor for Javier Bardem at the Venice Film Festival 2000. Named to over 100 year-end top ten lists, Bardem’s portrayal in Before Night Falls earned him both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for best actor. In 2007, Schnabel directed his third film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly. He was awarded "Best Director" at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes and was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director. Schnabel also directed the documentary Lou Reed’s Berlin, which captured Lou Reed’s only performance of his commercially failed yet masterwork album about jealousy, rage and loss, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn in 2006.
Julian Schnabel lives and works in New York City and Montauk, Long Island.
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Director
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2024 |
In the Hand of Dante |
2018 |
At Eternity's Gate |
2010 |
Miral |
2007 |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
2000 |
Before Night Falls |
1996 |
Basquiat |
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2007 |
Lou Reed's Berlin |
Screenwriter
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2024 |
In the Hand of Dante |
2018 |
At Eternity's Gate |
2000 |
Before Night Falls |
1996 |
Basquiat |
Composer
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1996 |
Basquiat |
Editor
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2018 |
At Eternity's Gate |
Actor
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2022 |
The Andy Warhol Diaries (series) |
2021 |
Jonas in the Fields |
Why Are We (Not) Creative? |
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2018 |
Why Are We Creative? |
2017 |
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World |
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait |
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2016 |
Along for the Ride |
Österreich: Land der Neider? (TV movie) |
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2015 |
Heart of a Dog |
2011 |
Gazzara |
2008 |
Hotel Gramercy Park |
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies |
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2007 |
Pixote, in memorian |
2005 |
Sketches of Frank Gehry |
2004 |
Art in Progress (series) |
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments (TV movie) |
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2003 |
Rockets Redglare! |
2002 |
Independent View (series) |
1998 |
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (TV movie) |
1992 |
The Art of Merry-Go-Round |
1984 |
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's |
Performer
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2014 |
Park Bench with Steve Buscemi |
2008 |
The 80th Annual Academy Awards |
2007 |
Rencontres de cinéma |
2003 |
Real Time with Bill Maher |
1996 |
El magacine |
1995 |
Lauren Hutton and... |
Lo + plus |
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1979 |
CBS News Sunday Morning |
Fans
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