BIOGRAPHY
Tyler Starr received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In 1998, Starr was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. In 2011, he graduated with a PhD in Studio Arts from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts where he was a recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship. ·Starr was a 2011 Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa, a 2013 Christiania Researcher in Residence, a 2014 OMI International Arts Center Resident and a 2018 Fellowship Artist at the Kala Art Institute. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Yale University’s Haas Arts Library, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Liège, Belgium, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.·He is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Davidson College.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Combining research, direct observation and poetic associations, my mixed-media works visualize cross-references in an effort to better understand current social and political conundrums. I am interested in the ways printed information is used to map human endeavors, and the forms of my visualizations are influenced by printed ephemera such as touristic brochures that present digestible history of sites with troublesome associations, souvenir postcards, and used car classifieds found at truck stops.
Tyler Starr
tyler@tylerstarr.com
EDUCATION
2011 Doctor of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts,
2002 Master of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN
1995-97 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1992-94 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist Support Grant, Arts and Science Council, Mecklenburg
2022 Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation, Puffin Foundation Ltd, Teaneck, NJ
2018 Kala Fellowship Award, Kala Art Institute, Oakland, CA
2017 Puffin Foundation Grant, Puffin Foundation Ltd, Teaneck, NJ
2016 North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant
2014 Art Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, NY
2013 Christiania Researcher in Residence, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011-12 Grant Wood Fellowship, University of Iowa
2005-11 Japanese Ministry of Education Research Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Redress Papers, Artspace, Raleigh
2018 Implementalist Papers, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
2017 Redress Papers, Delta Arts Center, Winston Salem, NC
2015 Redress Papers, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Long Island
2012 Lover’s Leap, Cora Miller Gallery, York College, York, PA
2011 Rollo Wants, Robert B. Haas Family Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Commissioned project including digital animation installation and offset litho artist’s book, curated by Rachel Gugelberger
2010 Redress papers, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2009 Wallowing Series, Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan
TWO PERSON AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Cut & Paste, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA link
2012 Grant Wood Fellows: Tyler Starr and Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Art Building, West Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City link
2011 Tokyo Paintings and Mixed Media Work: Tyler Starr and Richard Heisler, Cullom Gallery Seattle, Washington
2005 Print & Drawing Exhibition: Tyler Starr and Miki Kato, Taiji Kiyokawa Memorial Gallery Setagaya Art Museum
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 PhotoBookworks, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO (curated by Gregory Roybl, Curator, Special & Distinct Collections, University of Colorado Libraries and Alicia Bailey, Director, Abecedarian Artists’ Books
2022 Boundless Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA (curated by Cynthia Sears and Catherine Alice Michaelis)
2021 Breathe, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA
2021 Unseen: An International Exhibition of Book Arts, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 Process-ing History: The Photobook and the Archive, Brizdle-Schoenberg
Special Collections Center, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
2018 Both Directions at Once, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 Reader’s Art: Control/Alt/Shift, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Material Matters: Water, Pigment, and Light, Van Every/ Smith Gallery, Authored essay for the catalog and co-curated exhibit with Lia Newman, Director/ Curator of the Van Every/Smith Gallery and Elizabeth Harry, Assistant Curator
WORKS IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA
Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Francis J. Greenburger Collection, NYC
George Mason University, Fenwick Library, Special Collections
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Miami University Library, Special Collections
Northwestern University, Art & Architecture Library
Otis College of Art and Design, Millard Sheets Library, Los Angeles, CA
Reed College, Reed Library, Special Collections, Portland, OR
Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library, Artists’ Books Collection
Saitama University, Center for the Study of Cooperative Human Relations, Japan
Silpakorn University, Bangkok Thailand
Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
University of California, Berkeley, Special Collections
University of California, USCB Library, Special Collections
University of California, San Diego, Library, Special Collections
University of Chicago, Special Collections
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
University of Iowa, Main Library, Special Collections
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Library, Special Collections
University of Washington, Suzallo and Allen Libraries, Special Collection
Wesleyan University, Olin Library, Special Collections
Yale University, Haas Arts Special Collections, New Haven, CT
York College, York PA
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2018 Kala Art Institute, (Gallery talk)
2017 Delta Art Center, Winston-Salem (Gallery talk)
2017 LaCa Projects, Charlotte (Gallery Talk)
2015 Greensboro College, NC (Gallery Talk)
2015 University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Visiting Artist Talk)
2014 University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop)
2014 Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium (Panelist)
2013 Bechtler Museum, Charlotte, NC (Lecture, Narrative Series in European Printmaking, Modern Mondays)
2013 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC (Lecture, Fine Arts Department)