{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Short description|British conceptual artist (born 1967)}}

{{Infobox artist | name = Simon Starling | image = Ho, Simon Starling Husbåd til Ho 2, Nov 2024.jpg | caption = ''Husbåd til Ho'' (2023), public sculpture in Ho, Denmark. Gift of the Danish Arts Foundation and Varde Municipality.<ref>{{cite web |title=“Husbåd til Ho” af Simon Starling |url=https://www.kunstivarde.dk/portfolio-item/husbaad-til-ho-af-simon-starling/ |website=Kunst i Varde |access-date=2025-07-07}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|5|30}} | birth_place = 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); Hugo Boss Prize finalist (2004) }}

'''Simon Starling''' (born 1967, Epsom, England) is an English conceptual artist who won the Turner Prize in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2005|title = Turner Prize 2005 – Exhibition at Tate Britain}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Birnbaum |first=Daniel |title=Transporting Visions: The Art of Simon Starling |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/transporting-visions-the-art-of-simon-starling-168036/ |website=Artforum |access-date=2025-06-27}}</ref>

==Early life== Simon Starling was born in 1967 in Epsom, Surrey. He studied photography and art at Maidstone College of Art 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, Glasgow.<ref>"Simon Starling: Under Lime". Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Exhibition Catalogue. Cologne: Walther König, 2009</ref>

==Work== Starling was the first recipient of the Blinky Palermo Grant in 1999.<ref>"Simon Starling". Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. Exhibition Catalogue. 1999</ref> In 2005, he won the Turner Prize with the work, ''[https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/simon-starling/works/shedboatshed-mobile-architecture-no-2-2005/88/ Shedboatshed]'' that involved taking a wooden shed, turning it into a boat, sailing it down the Rhine and turning it back into a shed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2005|title=Simon Starling|publisher=Turner Prize|accessdate=2010-12-07}}</ref> Starling was short-listed for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize for contemporary art in 2004.

==Exhibitions==

[[File:Inhotim Simon Starling 02.jpg|thumb|300px|''The Mahogany Pavilion (Mobile Architecture No.1)'', by Simon Starling, at Inhotim, Brazil.]]

His work is in the permanent collection of distinguished museums, such as the Tate Modern, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Museum Folkwang, Essen. Starling has had solo exhibitions at numerous international venues including 'Simon Starling: At Twilight',<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://japansociety.org/events/simon-starling/ |title=Simon Starling |website=Japan Society |publisher=Japan Society, New York |access-date=7 July 2025 }}</ref> [https://www.japansociety.org/ Japan Society], New York (2016), [https://www.tba21.org/# Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary], Vienna (2012); Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2011);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tate|title=Simon Starling: Recent History – Exhibition at Tate St Ives|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/simon-starling-recent-history|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Tate|language=en-GB}}</ref> [https://www.thepowerplant.org/ 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); [https://camdenartcentre.org/ Camden Arts Centre], London (1998); and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998), among others. In 2003, the artist represented Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennial. {{clear}}

==Personal life== Starling lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, and was a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/27/bio|title=Simon Starling|publisher=The Modern Institute|accessdate=2010-12-07}}</ref>

He was awarded 'Alumnus of the Year' by Nottingham Trent University in 2007.<ref>NTU website https://www.ntu.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-stories/notable-alumni</ref>

==See also== *Turner Prize *Conceptual art

==References== {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Interview with Fabian Stech in ANNUAL MAGAZINE No., 2012 p.&nbsp;143-146. [http://www.annualartmagazine.com/conversation/simon-starling/] * Dieter Roelstraete, Francesco Manacorda, Janet Harbord, ''Simon Starling'', Phaidon Press, London, 2012. {{ISBN|978 07148 6419 8}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book|title=Art Now|editor-first1=Uta|editor-last1=Grosenick|editor-first2=Burkhard|editor-last2=Riemschneider|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|pages=296–299|isbn=9783822840931|oclc=191239335}}

==External links== * [http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/simon-starling-a-a-b-b Elaine YJ Zheng: Simon Starling: 'A-A';B-B<nowiki>''</nowiki>] *[https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/simon-starling The Modern Institute: Simon Starling] * [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2005 Turner Prize 2005: Simon Starling] * [http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/12576 Guggenheim: Simon Starling] * [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/dec/07/art.turnerprize2005 ''Guardian'' interview (12/2005)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080104202843/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/simon_starling1/ ''frieze'' review (10/2005)] * [https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/starling/ Casey Kaplan: Simon Starling] * [https://www.franconoero.com/en/url_artist/simon-starling/ Franco Noero: Simon Starling] *[http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/793280334001/ Tate: TateShots: Simon Starling at Tate St Ives. 2011.] * [https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/08/replication-some-thoughts-some-works Tate Papers: "Replication: Some Thoughts, Some Works" – Tate Research]

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