Simon Starling

Simon Starling studied at Glasgow School of Art and Nottingham Trent University. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Copenhagen. Work by Simon Starling is recorded in the collections of Tate, National Gallery of Victoria and Centraal Museum. Distinctions recorded are Turner Prize and The Franciska Clausen Medal.

• Name — Simon Starling • Born — 30 May 1967 • Birthplace — Epsom, England • Education — * Maidstone College of Art • Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham • Glasgow School of Art • Known for — Contemporary art • Awards — * Blinky Palermo Grant (1999) • Turner Prize (2005)

Simon Starling was born on 30 May 1967 in Epsom, Surrey. From 1986 to 1987, Starling studied photography and art at Maidstone College of Art. From 1987 to 1990, he studied at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham. Then, from 1990 to 1992, he attended Glasgow School of Art.

• Illustration — The Mahogany Pavilion (Mobile Architecture No.1), by Simon Starling, at Inhotim, Brazil. 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. 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 a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. • Illustration — Husbåd til Ho (2023), public sculpture in Ho, Denmark. Gift of the Danish Arts Foundation and Varde Municipality.

• 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

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

Starling lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.

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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