About the work

Starr is a British artist best known for her video, sound and performance works. She emerged in the early 1990s with a series of complex works exploring fragile emotional narratives through writing and moving image. Using female identity, memory, film history and fiction she creates multi-layered theatrical events and installations.  

Date and country of birth

1968, GB

About the artist

Born 1968 Leeds, Georgina Starr lives and works in London.

Starr is a British artist best known for her video, sound and performance artworks, exhibited widely in galleries and museums both in the UK and internationally.

Her works are held in public and private collections including Tate, London; Arts Council, London; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Selected exhibitions, performances and films include Quarantaine, film commissioned by Film Video Umbrella, Glasgow International and touring (2021); Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London (2019-2020); Moment Memory Monument, Palazzo Reale, Milan (2017); Hello. Come here. I want you., Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (2017); Androgynous Egg, performance commission for Frieze Projects (2017); Music and Art; Rock, Pop and Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2001); New British Video Programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998); and Visit to a Small Planet, Kunsthalle Zurich (1995).