Georgina Starr

Georgina Starr
Born	Georgina Starr 1968 (age 48–49) Leeds, England
Nationality	British
Education	Slade School 1990–1992
Known for	Installation art
Notable work	"The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum" "Visit to a Small Planet" "Crying" "Hypnodreamdruff" "The Bunny Lake Series" "Theda" "I am a record"
Movement	Young British Artists

Georgina Starr (born 1968) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists. She is best known for her video, sound, performance and installation works. An amalgamation of dream, fiction, memory and re-enactment, Starr’s work has been described in Artforum magazine as exploring "the imaginative self’s ability to make something magically complex, layered and densely referential out of virtually nothing but its own 'stuff'”

Starr was born in Leeds and lives and works in London. She studied at Jacob Kramer school of Art, Middlesex Polytechnic, attended the Slade School of Art from 1990 until 1992 and the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam from 1993 to 1994. She has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions, including the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Venice Biennale, and in galleries in cities throughout the world including Basel, Tokyo, Ghent, Brisbane, and Barcelona.

She has been identified as a member of the second wave of Young British Artists.

Whether playing a lonely teenager re-enacting a high school play, a nightclub singer with schizophrenia, a visitor from another planet, a silent movie star, a ventriloquist or psychic medium, her face and voice are always the focus, constantly changing and morphing as she performs. As David Frankel noted in Artforum, ”she seems both a familiar presence and at the same time unknowable, one multifaceted figure- she is all of them-but at the same time non-of them at all… Starr proposes a model of art-making and combines the baroque with the spontaneous….the frame is fiction".

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