ArtReview's Power 100 - Isaac Julien one of the most influential people in the artworld in 2023

Every year, ArtReview compiles its Power 100 list which enlists a ranking of the 100 living individuals who are shaping the art now. 

This year, on the Power 100 list for 2023 Isaac Julien is placed number 5 as "an artist whose ambitious film-installations offer constellation-like portraits of historic Black figures". 

ArtReview emphasized that Julien's What Freedom Is to Me, at London’s Tate Britain, "also featured the European debut of Once Again… (Statues Never Die), his 2022 film that returned to the subject of the Harlem Renaissance, a work which featured in the Sharjah Biennial too this year. The glamour and radicalism of 1920s African-American culture is an enduring interest for Julien, whose film Looking for Langston (1989) made his name – a work now presented in its own permanent pavilion at Brazil’s Inhotim sculpture park."