Doug and Mike Starn

(American, born 1961)

Doug and Mike Starn are collaborative American artists and identical twins. Working across photography, printmaking, and sculptural installations, their work poses questions about existence and its central primacy in our lives. Their photo-based mixed-media works include unconventional materials such as Plexiglas, wood, nails, and transparency film, allowing them to reinterpret images from art history, and incorporate them into their own aesthetic. “We're trying to show that photography isn't an image, it's a three-dimensional object,” they have explained. “It can have the same kind of growth and limitations or non-limitations as the other arts. It doesn't have to be confined to a craft, or simply the photographer's eye and then the skill of printing.” Their recent work has dealt mainly with notions of light and dark both as perceivable phenomena and psychological states, manifesting itself in photographs of moths and silhouettes of bare branches. They were born in 1961 in New Jersey and have been collaborating since the age of 13. The brothers went on to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before moving to New York City in the 1980s. Today, the Starns' works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. The artists live and work in Beacon, NY.

Doug and Mike Starn Artworks

Doug and Mike Starn (447 results)

Double Rembrandt (with Steps), 1987–1991

Doug and Mike Starn

Double Rembrandt (with Steps), 1987–1991

Sale Date: February 27, 2024

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Blue Picasso Detail, 1987–1990

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Blue Picasso Detail, 1987–1990

Sale Date: February 28, 2024

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Selected Images from 'Big Bambú' (1000..., 2011–2017

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Selected Images from 'Big Bambú' (1000..., 2011–2017

Sale Date: February 8, 2024

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Gnat in your Eye, 1992–1995

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Gnat in your Eye, 1992–1995

Sale Date: February 23, 2024

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Structure of thought #5., 2001

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Structure of thought #5., 2001

Sale Date: December 27, 2023

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Guanyin, 2005

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Guanyin, 2005

Sale Date: November 28, 2023

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Structure of Thought #3'', 2001

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Structure of Thought #3'', 2001

Sale Date: November 14, 2023

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"The no-mind not-thinks no-things lasven", 2012–2013

Sale Date: October 25, 2023

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Lack of Compassion, 1987–1988

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Lack of Compassion, 1987–1988

Sale Date: September 26, 2023

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Die Jungen Frauen #32, 1989–1993

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Die Jungen Frauen #32, 1989–1993

Sale Date: September 16, 2023

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Die Jungen Frauen #37, 1989–1993

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Die Jungen Frauen #37, 1989–1993

Sale Date: July 15, 2023

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Double Rembrandt (with steps), 1987–1991

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Double Rembrandt (with steps), 1987–1991

Sale Date: June 21, 2023

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Bull Jumper Detail, 1989

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Bull Jumper Detail, 1989

Sale Date: June 19, 2023

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"Black Pulse #17", 2000–2007

Sale Date: April 26, 2023

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"Sno6 047", 2006–2007

Sale Date: April 26, 2023

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Black Pulse 10, 2000–2003

Doug and Mike Starn

Black Pulse 10, 2000–2003

Sale Date: April 22, 2023

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Untitled #9, from Structure of Thought, 2001, 2001

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Untitled #9, from Structure of Thought, 2001, 2001

Sale Date: April 22, 2023

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Rembrandt/Seascape Detail, 1987

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Rembrandt/Seascape Detail, 1987

Sale Date: March 14, 2023

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Plant #1, 1988

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Plant #1, 1988

Sale Date: March 14, 2023

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Size of Nothing, 1996

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Size of Nothing, 1996

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Blot Out the Sun #1, 1998–1999

Doug and Mike Starn

Blot Out the Sun #1, 1998–1999

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Mike & Doug Starn (Starn Twins),..., 2005–2008

Doug and Mike Starn

Mike & Doug Starn (Starn Twins),..., 2005–2008

Sale Date: October 26, 2022

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Black Pulse 6 (Lambda Edition), 2000

Doug and Mike Starn

Black Pulse 6 (Lambda Edition), 2000

Sale Date: October 7, 2022

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The No Mind Not Thinks No Things..., 2012–2013

Doug and Mike Starn

The No Mind Not Thinks No Things..., 2012–2013

Sale Date: October 6, 2022

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