Doug & Mike Starn
Sirio Magnabosco
Doug & Mike Starn
Doug and Mike Starn, American artists, identical twins, born 1961. First having received international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial, for more than 20 years the Starns were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. Over the past two and half decades, they have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as photography, sculpture, architecture.
Doug and Mike Starn, born in America in 1961, live and work in New York.
EXHIBITIONS
2025“Cloudscapes”, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm;
“Bright Days Ahead”, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
2024Art Cologne, Galerie Commeter, Cologne
2023“Structure of Thought”, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Bad Homburg;
“Nonpareil”, Robert Mann Gallery in New York;
“Horse and Jockey of Artemision”, Mario Diaconi Gallery, Boston
2022“Can’t, Won’t, Don’t Stop”, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2019“Iggy and Franz”, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
2018“This Thing Called Life”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
“The Geometry of Innocence”, Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Dänemark
2016Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection, Yokohama Art Museum, Japan;
Photography and Film Constructs, Galleries of Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota;
Narrative/Collaborative, Galerie Lelong, New York
2015Recent Acquisitions, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2014“Big Bambú: 5,000 Arms to Hold You”, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Jerusalem;
“no mind not thinks no things things”, Fay Gold Gallery Westside Cultural Art Center, Atlanta
2013“Big Bambú #8”, Naoshima Museum Setouchi Triennial, Japan;
Recent Works by Diana Kingsley, Robert Morris, Richard Pettibone, Mike and Doug Starn, and Keith Sonnier, Castelli Gallery, NY;
“No Mind Not Thinks No Things”, HackelBury Fine Art, London;
“No Mind Not Thinks No Things Juju”, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
2012“Gravity of Light”, Cincinnati Art Museum: at the Holy Cross-Immaculata Church
“Big Bambú – Minotaur Horn Head”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Museo Macro Testaccio, Rome
“Big Bambú”, Commission for Enel Contemporanea, at Museo Macro Testaccio Rome
2011“Big Bambú”, Official Collateral Exhibition to the 54th Venice Biennal
2010“Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2009“Recent Work”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
“Doug & Mike Starn”, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury
“Big Bambú”, Wetterling Gallery Stockholm
2008“alleverythingthatisyou”, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago
“Doug & Mike Starn”, Thordén Wetterling Gallery, Göteborg
“Gravity of Light”, Wood Street Galleries/at the Pipe Building, Pittsburgh
2007“Black Pulse 2000-2007”, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2006“Absorption + Transmission”, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
“Absorption + Transmission”, FotoFest 2006, Houston
“Absorption + Transmission”, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
“Mike & Doug Starn”, Galeria Metta Madrid
“alleverythingthatisyou”, Baldwin Gallery Aspen
“Opposition of Coincidents”, Torch Gallery Amsterdam
“I’m a negative falling down to the light a silhouette veins flowing with black visible to these useless blind eyes”, Wetterling Gallery Stockholm
2005“Impermanence”, Castelli Gallery New York
“Absorption + Transmission”, The National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC
2004“Gravity of Light”, Färgfabriken Kunsthalle Stockholm
“Everythinig is Liquid” 2024, Ultrachrome K3 Epson ink jet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkall paper, tape, on woodpanel, 19 x 32 in, edition of 9
“Everythinig is Liquid” 2024, Ultrachrome K3 Epson ink jet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkall paper, tape, on woodpanel, 19 x 32 in, edition of 9
“Sky 1” 2023, Ultrachrome K3 Epson ink jet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkall paper, tape, on woodpanel, 27 x 36 x 5 in, edition of 3
“Sky 2” 2024, Ultrachrome K3 Epson ink jet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkall paper, tape, on woodpanel, 35 x 29 x 5 in, edition of 3
“Sky 3” 2023, Ultrachrome K3 Epson ink jet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkall paper, tape, on woodpanel, 27 x 36 x 5 in, edition of 3
