Simon Starling (born 1967) is an

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artist and won the

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in 2005.

Early life

Simon Starling was born in 1967 in

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. He studied photography and art at

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from 1986 to 1987, then at

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Nottingham from 1987 to 1990 and then attended

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from 1990 to 1992. From 1993 to 1996, he was a committee member of

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, Glasgow.

Work

Starling was the first recipient of the Blinky Palermo Grant in 1999. In 2005, he won the

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

Hugo Boss Prize The Hugo Boss Prize was an award given every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Upon its establishment in 1996, it distinguished itself from other art awards because it has no restrictions on ...

for contemporary art in 2004.

Exhibitions

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

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is ...

, London;

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, Stockholm;

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

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

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

; and

Museum Folkwang Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patr ...

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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);

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, 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

Venice Biennial The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

Personal life

Starling lives and works in

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and

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, and was a professor of art at the

Städelschule The Städelschule (), Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual a ...

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. He was awarded 'Alumnus of the Year' by

Nottingham Trent University Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as a new university in 1992, although its roots go back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design, w ...

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