Simon Starling

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Simon Starling (born 30 May 1967) is an English conceptual artist who won the Turner Prize in 2005. He works across sculpture, film, photography and installation.

Early life

Simon Starling was born on 30 May 1967 in Epsom, Surrey.^{[citation needed]}

From 1986 to 1987, Starling studied photography and art at Maidstone College of Art.^{[citation needed]} From 1987 to 1990, he studied at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham.^{[citation needed]} Then, from 1990 to 1992, he attended Glasgow School of Art.^{[citation needed]}

Career

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From 1993 to 1996, Starling was a committee member of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

In 1999, Starling was the first recipient of the Blinky Palermo Grant.

In 2003,Starling represented Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennial.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, Starling won the Turner Prize with the work, Shedboatshed, for which he turned a wooden shed into a boat, sailed it down the Rhine and then turned it back into a shed.

Starling was^[when?] a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Awards

Starling has received and been shortlisted for several awards, including:

• 1999: Recipient – Blinky Palermo Grant.
• 2004: Shortlist – Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim.^{[citation needed]}
• 2005: Winner – Turner Prize, Tate.
• 2007: Winner – Alumnus of the Year, Nottingham Trent University.

Exhibitions

Solo

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Year	Title	Institution	Location	Ref
1998		Moderna Museet	Stockholm
		Camden Arts Centre	London
2000		Museu Serralves	Porto
2001		Kunstverein Hamburg	Hamburg
		Vienna Secession	Vienna
2002		Museum of Modern Art	Sydney
		Portikus	Frankfurt
		Hammer Museum	Los Angeles
2005		Kunstmuseum Basel Museum für Gegenwartskunst	Basel
2007		Städtischen Kunstmuseum zum Museum Folkwang	Essen
2008		The Power Plant	Toronto
2011		Tate St Ives	Cornwall
2012		Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary	Vienna
2016	Simon Starling: At Twilight	Japan Society	New York
2025 - 2026	Simon Starling: Boat Works	Abbot Hall	Kendal

Group

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Year	Title	Institution	Location	Ref
2003	Scottish pavilion, 50th Venice Biennial		Venice

Collections

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Starling's work is in several public collections, including:

• Tate Modern, London
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• Kröller Müller Museum, Netherlands
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Museum Folkwang, Essen

Personal life

Starling lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.

See also

• Turner Prize
• Conceptual art

References

Bibliography

• Interview with Fabian Stech in ANNUAL MAGAZINE No., 2012 p. 143-146.
• Dieter Roelstraete, Francesco Manacorda, Janet Harbord, Simon Starling, Phaidon Press, London, 2012. ISBN 978 07148 6419 8

Further reading

• Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 296–299. ISBN 9783822840931. OCLC 191239335.

External links

• Elaine YJ Zheng: Simon Starling: 'A-A';B-B''
• The Modern Institute: Simon Starling
• Turner Prize 2005: Simon Starling
• Guggenheim: Simon Starling
• Guardian interview (12/2005)
• frieze review (10/2005)
• Casey Kaplan: Simon Starling
• Franco Noero: Simon Starling
• Tate: TateShots: Simon Starling at Tate St Ives. 2011.
• Tate Papers: "Replication: Some Thoughts, Some Works" – Tate Research