Doug and Mike Starn

19 Dec 2025 - 8 Feb 2026 Maya Frodeman Gallery
Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with artists Doug and Mike Starn, on view at the gallery's downtown location from December 19th, 2025 through February 8th, 2026. An artist reception will be held Friday, December 19th from 5 to 7pm. All are welcome to attend.
 
Doug and Mike Starn are American artists and identical twins born in 1961. First having received international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial, for more than forty years the Starns were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. Over the past four decades, they have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as photography, sculpture, architecture--most notably their series Big Bambú.
 

The Starns were represented by Leo Castelli from 1989 until his death in 1999. Their art has been the object of numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. The Starns have received many honors including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1987 and 1995; The International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography in 1992; and, artists in residency at NASA in the mid-nineties. They have received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, Corriere della Sera, Le Figaro, The Times (London), Art in America, and Artforum, amongst many other notable media. Major artworks by the Starns are represented in public and private collections including: The Museum of Modern Art (NYC); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (NYC); The Jewish Museum, (NYC); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne); Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); Yokohama Museum of Art (Japan); La Bibliotèque Nationale (Paris); La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), amongst many others.