Mike and Doug StarnFollow This Artist
Born: 1961
Hometown: Absecon, New Jersey
Lives and Works: Beacon and Brooklyn, New York
Website: www.starnstudio.com/ ; www.dmstarn.com/
Education:
School of The Museum of Art Boston, Boston, MA, 1985
Mike and Doug Starn Bio
About The Artist
Since the mid-1980s, the identical twins Mike and Doug Starn have been collaborating on conceptual photographs and installations. Often, they use images from nature—leaves, tree branches, and moths, for instance—to explore themes of circulation and connection.
In the summer of 2010, their temporary site-specific installation Big Bambú transformed the Metropolitan Museum’s rooftop into an evolving, interactive waveform made entirely of bamboo poles; a version of the piece later appeared at the 2011 Venice Biennial. Another work by the Starns, the mosaic, fused-glass and stainless steel installation See it split, see it change, is permanently on view at the South Ferry subway station.
The Starns have received numerous awards, including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. They have exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, with solo exhibitions at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., the Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many other institutions.
Mike and Doug Starn Gallery Art
Galleries
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
HackelBury Fine Art, London, UK
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Mike and Doug Starn Permanent Collections
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
La Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris, France
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mike and Doug Starn Art
Works by the Artist
