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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