Seasonal Studio Visit | July 2025
Join us at 11AM on Friday, July 11 for a special offsite visit at the de Young Museum (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco) to experience Isaac Julien: I Dream a World, led by Claudia Schmuckli, Holly Johnson and Parker Harris, Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. We’re happy to offer this curator-led exhibition tour to our $1K Breakthrough and above members.
10:45AM – All guests meet and enter via de Young garage entrance.
11AM–12PM — Curator-led exhibition tour
If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to Juliana Gerdts at jgerdts@headlands.org.
To learn more about Headlands Membership opportunities, please visit headlands.org or contact Kristina Graber at kgraber@headlands.org
We look forward to sharing this inspiring exhibition with you!
About the exhibition
Over the last 25 years, pioneering artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London) has created immersive, multichannel video installations. Celebrated for his poetic visual narratives, Julien explores power, politics, and personal experience through the lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring 10 major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside select early single-channel films including his iconic Looking for Langston (1989), this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a museum setting and his first retrospective in the United States. The works’ themes range from global migration to the collection and appropriation of African artists and art by Western museums to the celebration of cultural figures who overcame racial oppression. Shot across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Asia, Julien’s works untangle the complex web of post-colonial conditions that has shaped the lives of individuals and societies across the globe.