GEORGINA STARR

Born 1968, Leeds (UK) 
Lives and works in London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026Static Steps, Artissima, Disegni Sector, Alma Pearl, Turin (IT) / curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli (upcoming)2025        The Discreet Dash, a novel, published by JOAN Publishing, London
Rouge Brillant Silky
, Performance for Hermès, La Monnaie de Paris, France / The Bund City Hall Plaza, Shanghai, China
2024The Triangles of Ursula (Performance), Ex-Chiesa dell'Angelo Custode, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy 2022Gelato Balleto (Georgina Starr x Hermès), Old Sessions House, London 
Quarantaine, Pinksummer Contemporary, Genova, Italy 
Quarantaine, Curzon Hoxton, Film & Video Umbrella & Pinksummer Contemporary, London
2021Quarantaine, Tramway, Glasgow International 2021, Glasgow 
Quarantaine, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds 
Quarantaine, Jarman Award Touring (Towner Gallery, LUX Scotland, Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island, G39, The MAC Belfast, Whitechapel Gallery, London)
2019The Eternal Ear, Matera 2019 European City of Culture, Matera, Italy 
Big V, Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation, Leeds, UK
2017Androgynous Egg, Frieze Projects, London, UK 
Hello. Come here. I want you, Frac Franche Comté, Besançon, France 
Moment Memory Monument (Performance), Frac Franche Comté, France 
Moment Memory Monument (Performance), Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
2016   The Lesson, Pinksummer Goes to Rome, Rome, Italy2015I, Cave, MIMA | Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK2013Before le Cerveau Affamé, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
2012The Joyful Mysteries of Junior, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy 
Theda presented by Moderna Museet and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2011Theda with Sigune von Osten at The Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, UK2010I am a Record and I am the Medium, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France 
Theda with Sigune von Osten, Delphi Silent Movie Theatre, Berlin, Germany 
Flesh: The Great Illusion, The Life & Work of Ronald Wright, Schwartz, London
2008Georgina Starr, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy 
Theda, Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy 
Theda, Images, Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, Canada
2007Theda, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
The Face of Another, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, USA
Theda, Artprojx at A Foundation, Greenland Street, Liverpool, UK
Theda, Art Film, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland 
Theda, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
2006Theda, presented by Artprojx and Film London, Prince Charles Cinema, London2005Big V, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK2004Speedorama, touring drive-in cinema project, Riksutstillinger, Norway2003Inside Bunny Lake Garden, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy 
Bunny Lake Drive-In, Fletcher Works, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK 
Georgina Starr, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002The Bunny Lakes, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK 
Bunny Lake Drive-In, Emily Tsingou Gallery at 86 Brick Lane, London
2001Bunny Lake Drive-In, Städtische Ausstellunghalle Münster, Münster, Germany2000The Bunny Lake Collection, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy 
The Bunny Lakes Are Coming, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
1999Popping Up, Oostellingwerf, The Netherlands [site-specific public commission]1998Tuberama, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 
Starrwood, Brigitte Trotha Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
1997Starvision, Philippe Rizzo Gallery, Paris, France1996Hypnodreamdruff, Tate Gallery, London, UK 
Georgina Starr, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
1995Visit to a Small Planet, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 
Georgina Starr, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Rooseum, Sweden 
The Party, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992Getting To Know You, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK 
(Un) Controlling, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum, Stroom, The Netherlands 
Crying, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
1993Mentioning, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES

2026YBA & BEYOND: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection, TATE touring exhibition: The National Art Center, Tokyo; KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan 
Buffet d’Art, Ambika P3, London
The Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
If I Had a Dream It Would Be A Good Dream, (with Paul Noble), The Gallery of Everything, London
Outside the Circle, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Water and Other Reflections for Change, Pinksummer Goes to Monte San Savino, Italy
Lines of Action, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Buffet d’Art, Ambika P3, London
2025The Triangles of Ursula, Baked Beans on the Doorstep, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
The Discreet Dash, performance/reading, Donlon Books, London
The Discreet Dash, performance/reading, Good Press, Glasgow 
2024    Outside the Circle, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
The Morbid Palace
, Ex-Chiesa dell'Angelo Custode, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy
Bitch Magic
, Alma Pearl, London, UK / curated by Celeste Baracchi
2023At Heaven's Edge: Visions, Museum Krona, The Netherlands 
Biennale Son, (Echoes of a Collection), Marigney, Switzerland 
Le Figure du Vides, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France 
Big Women Film Festival, Firstsite Cinema, Colchester 
Postcards from Brussels, Waldeburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium 
Big Women, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, UK [Curated by Sarah Lucas] 
Pinksummer Goes to Milan, Via San Fermo 7, Milano, Italy 
Booklovers, Krieg Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium 
Behold (curated by Sasha Galitzine & Graham Little), Hypha Studios, London 
Obsession for Schedules and Numbers, Museum van de Geest, The Netherlands
2022  Sous Le Velours noir des Paupieres, Frac Poitou-Charrantes, France 
Pas Sommiel, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France 
Le Cerveau Affamé, BookArtBookshop, London
2021Duelle, Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain 
A Very Special Place, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2019    Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London 
Open House, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 
Vinyls & Clips, (Sound Collection Guy Schraenen), Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon 
Re-Collections, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK 
Static Steps, The Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, UK 
Matera Alberga, Matera 2019, Matera, Italy
2018Colección Soledad Lorenzo, Punto de encuentro/ Cuestiones personales, Reina Sofia  Museum, Madrid, Spain  
Pictorial Goose Turn, Pinksummer Goes to Palermo, Palermo, Italy
2017Fantasy Access Code, K11, Shanghai, China  
Codice di Avviamento Fantastico, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy  
Of Other Spaces:Where Does Gesture Become Event? (part 2), Cooper Gallery, Dundee,  Scotland  
2016    Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? (part 1), Cooper Gallery,  Dundee, Scotland
Colour Wheel, Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds, UK 
Lo Specchio Concavo, BACO, Bergamo, Italy 
Mycorial Theatre 2016, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil,
Intimate Wine Reception, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, USA
2015Contemporary Art from the Peter Norton Foundation, Kemper Art Museum, USA  Deptford X, London, UK  
The Nakeds, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK,  
Believe Not Every Spirit, But Try the Spirits, MUMA, Melbourne, Australia
The Drawing Room Biennale, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2014Past the Future, Tate Britain, London, UK  
The Decades 1984-1999, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France  
Urban Visionaries, Film London, Canary Wharf Screen London, UK  
Bad Copy, Cardiff Story Museum, Cardiff, Wales  
THEDA, Andrew Stewert Cinema, Glasgow  
The Uplawmoor Show, Glasgow International, Mure Hall, Uplawmoor, Glasgow  The Nakeds, The Drawing Room, London, UK  
2013British British, Polish Polish, The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski  Castle ,Warsaw, Poland  
Des Mondes Possibles, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France  
(Dis)playing paper, hours and constellations, District Kunst und  Kulturförderung, Berlin  
This This Monster This Things, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham  
2012Sunset, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France,  
This This Monster This Things, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea , UK
2011Material Spiritual World, Deweer Gallery, Belgium  
THEDA with Sigune von Osten, Parkmusik, Trombacher Hof, Germany
2010Beyond, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 
(Re)Acting Caligari, Galerie Brotafabrik, Berlin 
Be a Star and Play a Model, Knokke International FotoFestival, Knokke, Belgium Big Up 4, La Maison, Anglet, France
2009Identity 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 [performance]
BRITISH SUBJECTS: IDENTITY AND SELF-FASHIONING 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum, New York, USA  
Landscape Memories, La Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, USA 
Bricks, Area 10, London
2008Event 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 
2007Playback, 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 - Identité et Transformation, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve Darkness Visible, Contemporary Art Society Collection, Southampton 
British Prints: Pop to the '90s, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australi
2006Identity III, nca| nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan 
Darkness Visible, Ferens Arts Gallery, Kingston upon Hull 
Ab Ovo, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco 
2005Gesture, 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), Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
The Mirror of the Imagination, The Dover Street Arts Club, London 
Speedorama, Norsk Dokumentarfilm Festival; Egersund Kunstforening, Galleri List Fyr; Lista, Kulturfestivalen; Svelvik, Norway [touring exhibition]
2004Dream 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 Contemporanea, Milano 
When Love Turns to Poison, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 
L’Arte in Testa, MACI Museo Arte , Contemporanea Isernia, Italy 
Identity II, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan  
200325hrs, Polisportiu El Raval, The VideoArtFoundation, Barcelona, Spain 
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
2002Rapture, Art’s Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Art Galleries, London
It’s only Words, London College of Printing, The London Institute, London
Tutto Normale, French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy 
The Gift, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
2001In 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 ospitalità insidia, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea,  Siena, Italy 
Plateau of Mankind No.1, 49th International Exhibition of Art, Venice Biennale, Venice
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
Tokyo TV, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 
Dai, dai, dai, where do we go from here? Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Science et cité, La vérité est ailleurs, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint 
2000Presumed Innocent, Capc Musée 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 im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Germany 
On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 
Anyone Could Be Anyone Else in Most Ways, Galerie Brigitte Trotha, Frankfurt
1999 Sweetie, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy 
Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 
Natural Reality, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany 
Ainsi de Suite 3, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France 
Act 1. Scenography and the Visual Arts, Kunstverein Lingen, 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
1998Malos Habitos, Solidad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Kritical Elegance, Museum Dhont Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium 
Here to Stay, Arts Council Collection, UK 
NewBritish Video Programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 
Real Life, New British Art, Japan [traveling exhibition] 
I’m Still in Love With You, The Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, USA 
UK MaximumDiversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz and Vienna, Austria 
A Night With Pony, Halle für 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, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
1997Visit to a Small Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 
Hypermnesia Fabulations, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada 
Ein Stück vom Himmel, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany and South London Gallery, 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 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea 
Heaven, P.S.1, New York, USA 
Screen, Anne Faggionato, London, UK
1996No. 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 Behaviors, 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 Deluxe, Up & Co, New York, USA 
Up Close and Personal, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, USA
1995Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Hopeless, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK 
In Search for the Miraculous, Starkman, London, UK 
Campo, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 
Wild Walls, 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, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff, UK (Travelling exhibition) 
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1994Jake and Dinos Chapman, Georgina Starr & Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA 
Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 
WMKaraoke, 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
1993Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, UK 
High Fidelity, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1992Barclay’s Young Artists, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 
Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tate Britain, UK 
Arts Council of GB, UK 
British Council, UK 
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
MOCA, Los Angeles, USA 
MOMA, New York, USA 
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA 
Leeds Art Gallery, UK
Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy 
Jedermann Collection, USA 
Koninklijke PTT, The Netherlands 
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK 
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, France 
FRAC Franche-Comté, France Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain