Jake Starr is a research-based artist residing on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia).
Starr’s practice yearns across new media, sculpture, film and text, toward speculative post-human futures. Much of their process involves the collation and appropriation of disregarded ideas, data and intelligences in order to formulate new and surprising relational ecologies. Characterised by strange syntheses, Starr’s research is informed by the frameworks of post-structuralism, affect theory and queer ecology as much as the seemingly frameless, fringe stirrings of furry fandom, conspiracy theories and technological accelerationism. Their work often operates within zones of friction or slippage, between embodied and disembodied, natural and synthetic, science and fantasy; creating webs of intimacy between seemingly disparate im/materialities which work to evoke imaginaries that exist beyond the constrictions of historical grand narratives and anthropocentric hegemony.
Represented by
Syrup Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal at Syrup Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2023
Queer Ecology at Schmick Contemporary (Collaborative project with Steven Cavanagh) Sydney, Australia
2021
for Maudlin Dust at Layton Street, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2025
Connection is unstable at Rofe St, Sydney, Australia
Queer Contemporary: Chaosophy at NAS Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2024
A Private Viewing at Syrup Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
every time we touch I get this feeling at Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
2023
Content Aware at 169 King St, Sydney, Australia
Plexus at Abstract Thoughts Gallery, Sydney, Australia
I Am Not My Body at Qtopia (Bandstand), Sydney, Australia
2022
NoClip at NAS Stairwell Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Fluid Thinking at Tiles, Sydney, Australia
Misprint at Gaffa, Sydney, Australia
Stain at Anti-Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021
Sent; 100 ideas about space at Abstract Thoughts Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020
Silent Auction for Djab Wurrung at Monster Mouse, Sydney, Australia
2019
DR5 at Rewind Photo Lab, Sydney, Australia
Rewind II at Rewind Photo Lab, Sydney, Australia
Happy, Sad, Angry, Mad at Woodburn Creatives, Sydney, Australia
Me & My Love at Down Under Space, Sydney, Australia
2018
Who Are you? at Goodspace, Sydney, Australia
2016
Head On Photo Festival at Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia
Screenings
2025
Yung Nihilist at The Roxy Cinema, New York City, USA
2024
Arebyte on Screen, Online Program
See Thru Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
Awards
2021
Ellen Lee O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award
2020
Inner West Built Environment Award
Publications
2025
terra firma magazine
2022
Fluid Thinking
2021
Post Poems
Sent; 100 ideas about space
2019
Rewind III photobook
Rewind II photobook
Easy Mag
Rind Zine
2018
Romka
2017
Making The Cut Vol 1. The World's Best Collage Artists
Get it on the Neg
Atoms Photography
No Thoughts Zine
Organiconcrete
Writing
2025
Nightswimming for Nova Milne's Metabolic Rifts at Syrup Contemporary
2024
A Haunted House at the End of the World: Biennale of Sydney at the White Bay Power Station for Un Projects
Porous Romance, love through degrees of obliteration for Pulp
2022
Cybernetic ecologies; art, nature and an interspecies future for Pulp
2020
Structural Pressures for Sent by Sophie Lanigan
2018
Dad's New Dress for Lor Journal
Interviews
2024
The Anatomy of Bad Video Art w/ Jake Starr for Hung Up
Education
2024
Masters of Fine Art, National Art School
2022
Bachelors of Fine Art, National Art School
I would like to pay my deepest respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which I work and live.
I extend that respect to elders past, present and emerging and recognise the Gadigal people’s continuing connection to land, water and community.
I also acknowledge the artistic practice of the Gadigal people which has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to enrich culture and community.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, Always will be, Aboriginal land.
Contact me at jakejar@outlook.com or through social media for any inquiries xoxo
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