Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel (1951, Brooklyn, New York) studied at the University of Houston. He is painter and sculptor. Since his first solo exhibition in 1979 in the Mary Boone Gallery in New York he has grown to become one of the most famous of contemporary artists, whose work has been bought by e.g. the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Gallery in London. Basquiat was his first feature.

Filmography

Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), Le scaphandre et le papillon/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Berlin (2007, doc), Miral (2010), At Eternity's Gate (2018)

More info:
Wikipedia, Julian Schnabel
julianschnabel.com