Lyle STARR
Lyle Starr is an American artist who lives and works in New York. Born in Oneida, NY in 1962, he has never returned. He grew up in the American West and lived for a while in a trailer home near a uranium mine. His family moved around alot and he attended seven different schools. He enjoyed leatherworking and woodburning at 4H Club in New Mexico but was less talented at boxing and football. He went to the University of Colorado in Boulder where he met filmmaker Stan Brakhage and beat writer Allen Ginsberg. Then he moved to Washington, DC and worked at NASA Headquarters. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 1999. His painting, “DEEP THIRD” was acquired by the Guggenheim Museum in 2007 and some of his “LICK” drawings are in MoMA’s Collection.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Galerie Gregoire Maisonneuve, Paris, France
“Drawings”. Martos Gallery, New York
2006
“Double Gemini”, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
2005
“All Fours”, Dieu Donné, New York
2004
Alona Kagan Gallery , New York
2003
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, España
2001
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
2000
TATE, New York, “Stockholm Monuments”
1999
TATE, New York, “Player”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Pornucopia”, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York
2008
FIAC, Galerie Gregoire Maisonneuve stand, Paris, France
Summer Show, Martos Gallery, NYC, USA (July 10 – August 10)
2005
“Surface” Lucas Shoormans Gallery The Patch, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
Red, White & Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Colaboración en proyecto “Peter Boal & Company” en el Joyce Theather
de Nueva York
Drawings, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, USA
Score: Action Drawing, White Columns, New York, USA
2003
Nip & Tuck, Artek Contemporaries, New York, USA
2002
“Toys II”, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
“Empire”, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
2001
“Toys”, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
“Picnic”, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York
2000
“2000 Años Luz”, Instituto Oscar Domínguez, Centro de Arte
La Recova y Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Tenerife, España
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, “Natural Wonder”
Sies & Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Guild.com., “MTV Canvas”
1999
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, “Pierogi 2000 Flat Files”
TATE, New York, “Millenium” (essay by Norman Bryson)
FIT at White Box, New York, “Peek” (catalogue)
Voxopolis, Philadelphia, PA, “Them” (catalogue)
1997
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, “Current Undercurrent”
The Gasworks, London; Connerhouse, Manchester, England, “Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles from NY”