Georgina Starr

Georgina Starr, Rehearsal for The Triangles of Ursula, Genova, June 2024. Photo: Alice Moschin

Georgina Starr | Biography | Born Leeds 1968 | Lives and works in London

Georgina Starr is a British artist best known for her video, sound and performance artworks. She emerged in the early 1990s with a series of complex works exploring fragile phenomena through audio, text and moving image. With a focus on female identity, memory, alchemy and film history she creates multi-layered theatrical events, sculptural installations, films and fictions. Described as “Magically complex works that challenge the viewer to re-examine the self, the unconscious and its ever-morphing biographies through a glittering and melancholic theatre of memory, mythology and fiction.” Starr's works have been exhibited widely over the last 30 years in galleries and museums both in the UK and internationally, from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Tate Britain to Kunsthalle Zurich, Venice Biennale and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent exhibitions include the sculpture/performance commission Moment Memory Monument presented at Palazzo Reale in Milan, a survey exhibition Hello. Come here. I want you. at Frac Franche-Comté and a live performance commission Androgynous Egg for Frieze Projects. Her latest film work Quarantaine (43mins) was commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella (London), The Hunterian (Glasgow), Art Fund (Moving Image Fund), Glasgow International and Leeds Art Gallery. The film premiered at Glasgow International (Gi 2021) in June 2021 before travelling to Leeds Art Gallery and Pinksummer Gallery in 2022. Her accompanying performance lecture The Voices of Quarantaine (Part 1), written and performed by the artist, was screened at Glasgow International and the Whitechapel Gallery, London with live versions of the lecture performed at Goldsmiths College London, The School of Arts at the University of Westminster, Camberwell University of the Arts and recently in Belgium at Krieg Gallery as part of The Book Lovers Project in 2023. Starr was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2021.

Education | Jacob Kramer Art College, Leeds (Foundation) , Middlesex Polytechnic (BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass), Slade School of Art, London (MA Sculpture), Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunst, Amsterdam

Recent Texts, Interviews & Articles | 2022- 2023 | Revue Musicale Vol. 10 : Locked Grooves: a Circle of Hands. Paranormal Affects in Georgina Starr's I am the Medium by Jennifer Fisher, Published June 2023 | Present Space Magazine Issue 1 (Cover Feature) : Like Touring a Hall of Mirrors: Inside the Absorbing Work of artist Georgina Starr by Elodie St Louis, Published January 2023 | Apollo Magazine : The Film-Makers Who Deserve a Fair Hearing by Hettie Judah, Published January 2023 | TWIN Magazine Issue 26 (Feature Interview): Spectacle & Suspense by Francesca Gavin, Published July 2022 | NR Magazine (Feature) : Where The Magic Happens: Inside the Strange & Surreal World of Georgina Starr by Ellie Brown, Published June 2022 | Georgina Starr Interview with PINKSUMMER May 2022 | ESSAY : Taking Possession in Three Acts by Dr. Dominic Paterson, May 2021 | ART MONTHLY (Cover Feature) : Hearing Voices by Maria Walsh, Published April 2020 | ART & CINEMA (Essay) : The Bewitched image. The cinematographic influences in the work of Georgina Starr by Johanna Caplliure, Published 2019 |

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Projects | 2024 | The Triangles of Ursula (Performance), Ex-Chiesa dell'Angelo Custode, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy | 2022 | Quarantaine, Curzon Hoxton, London, Quarantaine, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy until 17 September 2022, Gelato Balleto! Performance for Hermès, Old Sessions House, London, UK | 2021 | Quarantaine, Jarman Award 2021 UK Touring Program (Towner Gallery, LUX Scotland, Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island, G39, The MAC Belfast, Whitechapel Gallery, London), Quarantaine, Tramway, Glasgow International 2021, 11 - 27 June , Quarantaine, Leeds Art Gallery, Opens 25 June - 4 Sept 2021 | 2019 | The Eternal Ear, Matera Alberga, Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita, Italy | Big V, Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation, Leeds, UK | 2017 | Androgynous Egg, Frieze Projects, Frieze London, Hello. Come here. I want you. Frac Franche Comté, Besançon, France | 2016-17 | The Lesson , Pinksummer Goes to Rome, Rome, Italy | 2015 I, Cave, mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesbrough, UK | 2013 Before Le Cerveau Affamé, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, | 2012 The Joyful Mysteries of Junior, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy, Theda presented by Moderna Museet and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; | 2011 Theda with Sigune von Osten at The Pier Theatre, Bournemouth; | 2010 I am a Record & I am the Medium, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, Top 40 on Fire, (performance), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, Theda with Sigune von Osten, Delphi Silent Movie Theatre, Berlin, Flesh, The Great Illusion, The Life & Work of Ronald Wright, (presented by Paul Noble and Georgina Starr), London; | 2008 Georgina Starr, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy, Theda, Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy, Theda, Harbourfront Theatre, Toronto; | 2007 Theda, Anthology Film Archives, New York, The Face of Another, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, Theda, Artprojx at A Foundation, Greenland Street, Liverpool, Theda, Art Film, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Theda, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan, Theda, presented by Artprojx and Film London, The Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK; | 2005 Big V, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK; | 2004 Speedorama, touring drive-in cinema, Riksutstillinger, Norway; | 2003 Inside Bunny Lake Garden, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy, Bunny Lake Drive-In, Fletcher Works, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, Georgina Starr, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; | 2002 The Bunny Lakes, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK, Bunny Lake Drive-In, Emily Tsingou Gallery at 86 Brick Lane, London UK; | 2001 Bunny Lake Drive-In, Städtische Ausstellunghalle Münster, Münster, Germany; | 2000 The Bunny Lake Collection, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy, The Bunny Lakes Are Coming, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK; | 1999 Popping Up in Oostellingwerf, site-specific public commission, Friesland, The Netherlands; | 1998 Tuberama, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, Starrwood, Brigitte Trotha Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany; | 1997 Starvision, Philippe Rizzo Gallery, Paris, France; | 1996 Hypnodreamdruff, Tate Gallery, London, UK, Georgina Starr, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA; 1995 Visit to a Small Planet, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Georgina Starr, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Sweden, The Party, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; | 1994 Getting To Know You, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK, (Un) Controlling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum, Stroom, Den Haag, The Netherlands, Crying, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; | 1993 Mentioning, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions | 2024 | Outside the Circle, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Scotland (17 October - 3 February 2025) |The Morbid Palace, Ex-Chiesa dell'Angelo Custode, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy (until 3 October 2024) | Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London | At Heaven’s edge. Visions, Museum Krona, The Netherlands | 2023 | Postcard from Genova, Waldburger Wauters, Brussels | Les Figures du Vide, Frac Franche Comté, Bescancon, France | Big Women | Firstsite Gallery, Colchester , Behold, Hypha Studios, London | Sous Le velours noir des paupieres, Frac Poitou-Charrentes, France | Obsession for Schedules and Numbers, Museum van de Geest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2022 | Sous Le velours noir des paupieres, Frac Poitou-Charrentes, France | Pas Sommiel, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France | 2021 | DUELLE, Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, Opens 20 May - 8 July 2021, A Very Special Place: Ikon Gallery in the 90s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | 2019 | Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London (unitl April 2020) | Re-Collections, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, | Static Steps, The Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, UK | Matera Alberga, Matera, Italy | The Drawing Room Biennale, The Drawing Room, London, UK | 2017 | Fantasy Access Code, K11, Shanghai, China, Codice di Avviamento Fantastico, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Of Other Spaces:Where Does Gesture Become Event? (part 2), Cooper Gallery, Dundee, | 2016 | Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? (part 1), Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Colour Wheel, Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds, Lo Specchio Concavo, BACO, Bergamo, Italy, Mycorial Theatre 2016, Pivo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Intimate Wine Reception, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA | 2015 Rotation 2 (from the Gift of Peter Norton), Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, USA, It's Glam Up North, Museum of Liverpool, UK, Deptford X, London, UK, The Nakeds, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK, Believe Not Every Spirit, But Try the Spirits, MUMA, Melbourne, Australia, The Drawing Room Biennale, The Drawing Room, London, UK | 2014 Poetical Politics, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy, The Nakeds, The Drawing Room, London, The Decade (1984-1999), Le Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, Past the Future, Tate Britain, London, The Uplawmoor Show, Mure Hall, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Urban Visionaries, Film London, Canary Wharf, London, 2013 Past the Future, Tate Britain, London, British British, Polish Polish, The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Des Mondes Possibles, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, This This Monster This Thing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, (Dis)playing paper, hours and constellations, District Kunst und Kutureförderung, Berlin; 2012 Sunset, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France, This This Monster This Thing, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea; 2011 Material Spiritual World, Deweer Gallery, Belgium, THEDA with Sigune von Osten, Parkmusik, Trombacher Hof, Germany, Off Modern, Galerie de L'Espace Diderot, Rezé, France; 2010 Beyond, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, (Re)Acting Caligari, Galerie Brotafabrik, Berlin, Be a Star, Play a Model, Knokke International Foto-Festival, Knokke, Belgium, Big Up 4, La Maison, Anglet, France, Bricks, Area 10, London; 2009 Identity V, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan, Drawing 2009 Biennale, The Drawing Room, London, I Am a Record at Art Premiere, Art Basel 40, Basel, Switzerland , Art on Fashion, Freedom Gallery, London, British Subjects 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum, New York, USA, Landscape Memories, La Ciengas Projects, Los Angeles, USA; 2008 Event Horizon, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works, A Foundation Gallery, London, Noise, George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone, UK, Nothing Moments, Public Trust Gallery, Dallas, USA, Passing Through, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK; 2007 Playback, ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Nothing Moments, launch at MOCA at the Pacific Design Center & exhibition & Steve Turner Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Film and Photography Works, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan, I am making Art - Chapter 3 - Identité et Transformation, Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, Darkness Visible, Contemporary Art Society Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery, British Prints: Pop to the '90s, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; 2006 Identity III, nca| nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan, Darkness Visible, Ferens Arts Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, Ab Ovo, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco; 2005 Gesture, A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki and The New Centre of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, Superstars & The Principle of Renown, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, SpielrÉume (Freeplay Playground), Stiftug Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, The Mirror of the Imagination, The Dover Street Arts Club, London, Speedorama, (touring) Norsk Documentarfilfestival; Egersund Kunstforening, Galleri List Fyr; Lista, Kulturfestivalen; Svelvik, Norway; 2004 Dream Extensions, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium, Video Hits, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, A Temporary Monument for David McComb, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium, Louder This Time, Villa Galvani, Pordennone, Italy, A Century of Artists' Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, The Black Album, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemoranea, Milano, When Love Turns to Poison, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, L’Arte in Testa. Storia di Un Ossessione da Picasso ai Giorno Nostri, MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Italy, Identity II, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; 2003 25hrs, Polisportiu El Raval, The Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK; 2002 Rapture, Art’s Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK, It’s only Words, London College of Printing, The London Institute, London, UK, Tutto Normale, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, The Gift, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA; 2001 In Fumo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, Echo’s Laughter, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, Melancholy, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK, Melancholy, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK, Il dono, offerta ospitalita insidia, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, Plateau of Mankind No.1, 49th International Exhibition of Art, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Angst, Kenstwurk, Leewarden, The Netherlands, Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, USA, Music and Art; Rock, Pop and Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, Dai, dai, dai, where do we go from here?, Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Science et cité, La verité est ailleurs, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland; 2000 Présumed Innocent, CapMusée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, Video Vibe, Art and Music in the UK, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy, Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, Strange Paradises, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Doppelgänger, Shed in Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Germany, On the Edge of the Western World (trav. exh.), Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, Anyone Could Be Anyone Else in Most Ways, Galerie Brigitte Trotha, Frankfurt, Germany; 1999 Sweetie, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy, Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Natural Reality, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Ainsi de Suite 3, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France, Act 1. Scenography and the Visual Arts, Kunstvereiningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dial M for…, Munich Kunstverein, Munich, Germany, Hypertronix, Espace d’Art Castellon, Spain, Festival Riccione TTV, Riccione, Italy, Landscape Memories, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, Out of Site, Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany, The Degree Show, Leeds 13, Leeds, UK, The Order of Things, Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA, Self Portrait, Mercer Union, Toronto, USA, Make/ Believe, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA; 1998 Malos Habtos, Solidad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid, Spain, Kritical Elegance, Museum Dhont Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, Here to Stay, Arts Council Collection, UK, New British Video Programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, Real Life, New British Art (trav. exh.), Japan, I’m Still in Love With You, The Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, USA, UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz and Vienna, Austria, A Night With Pony Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany, In (Between) the Images, Neues Forum, Graz, Switzerland, Beige and Sneakers, Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany, Infra-Slim, The Soros Centre of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine, English Rose, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, Made in London, Musée de Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal, Family, Interleith House, Edinburgh, UK; 1997 Visit to a Small Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, Hypermnesiac Fabulations, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, Ein Stück vom Himmel, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany and South London Gallery, London, UK, Package Holiday, Hydra, Greece, Picture Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Camping, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany, Tales from the City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, Private Face-Public Space, Gasworks, Athens, Greece, Het Eigen Gezicht, Museum Beelden ann Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands, 7th Kwangiu Biennale, Kwangiu, Korea, Heaven, P.S.1, New York, USA, Screen, Anne Faggionato, London, UK; 1996 No. 10, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA, The Cauldron, Dean Clough, Henry Moore Institute, Halifax, UK, Elsewhere, Gallery Froment Putman, Paris, France, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Electronic Undercurrents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Driving On, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Fernbedienung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Switzerland, Bard College, New York, USA, Rational Behaviour, The Tannery, London, UK, New Photography 12, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, I.D., Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Galerie Tanya Grunert, Cologne, Germany, Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, Superstore Delux, Up & Co, New York, USA, Up Close and Personal, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, USA; 1995 Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Hopeless, Centre for Contemporay Art, Glasgow, UK, In Search for the Miraculous, Starkman, London, UK, Campo, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Night and Day, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK, Atelier des Artistes de la Ville de Marseilles, Marseilles, France, Brilliant, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA, Troisième, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, The British Art Show 4, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff, UK (Travelling exhibition), Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; 1994 Jake and Dinos Chapman, Georgina Starr & Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA, Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, WM Karaoke, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany, Europa ’94, Munich, Germany, Points of View, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Use Your Allusion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, It’s how You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York, USA, Electric Ladyland, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris; 1993 Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, High Fidelity, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; 1992 Barclay’s Young Artists, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, Aperto, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy