Simon Starling (born 1967) is an English conceptual artist and won the Turner Prize in 2005.

Early life

Simon Starling was born in 1967 in Epsom, Surrey. He studied photography and art at

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from 1986 to 1987, then at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham from 1987 to 1990 and then attended Glasgow School of Art from 1990 to 1992. From 1993 to 1996, he was a committee member of

Transmission Gallery Transmission Gallery is an artist-run space in Glasgow. It was established in 1983 by graduates of Glasgow School of Art. It primarily shows the work of young early career artists and is run by a changing voluntary committee of six people. Amon ...

, Glasgow.

Work

Starling was the first recipient of the Blinky Palermo Grant in 1999. In 2005, he won the Turner Prize with the work,
Shedboatshed
' that involved taking a wooden shed, turning it into a boat, sailing it down the

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and turning it back into a shed. Starling was short-listed for the Guggenheim's

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for contemporary art in 2004.

Exhibitions

His work is in the permanent collection of distinguished museums, such as the

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, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm;

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, New York; Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;

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; and Museum Folkwang,

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. Starling has had solo exhibitions at numerous international venues including ‘Simon Starling: At Twilight’
Japan Society
New York (2016)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary
Vienna (2012); Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2011)
the Power Plant, Toronto
(2008); Städtischen Kunstmuseum zum Museum Folkwang, Essen (2007); Kunstmuseum Basel Museum für Gegenwartskunst (2005); Museum of Modern Art, Sydney (2002); Portikus, Frankfurt (2002); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2002); Kunstverein Hamburg (2001); Vienna Secession (2001), Museu Serralves, Porto (2000)
Camden Arts Centre
London (1998); and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998), among others. In 2003, the artist represented Scotland at the 50th

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Personal life

Starling lives and works in

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and

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, and was a professor of art at the Städelschule in

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. He was awarded 'Alumnus of the Year' by Nottingham Trent University in 2007.NTU website http://www.ntualumni.org.uk/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=426

References

External links

Elaine YJ Zheng: Simon Starling: 'A-A';B-B''The Modern Institute: Simon Starling

Turner Prize 2005: Simon Starling

Guggenheim: Simon Starling

''frieze'' review (10/2005)

Franco Noero: Simon StarlingTate: TateShots: Simon Starling at Tate St Ives. 2011.

Bibliography

* Interview with Fabian Stech in ANNUAL MAGAZINE No., 2012 p. 143-146.

* Dieter Roelstraete, Francesco Manacorda, Janet Harbord, ''Simon Starling'',

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, London, 2012. {{DEFAULTSORT:Starling, Simon 1967 births Living people British conceptual artists English expatriates in Denmark Alumni of Nottingham Trent University People from Epsom Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Turner Prize winners English contemporary artists