Simon Starling was born in Epsom, England, in 1967. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, and was professor of fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt from 2003 to 2013. Starling won the Turner Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Japan Society, New York; The Common Guild, Glasgow; Nottingham Contemporary, England; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Casa Luis Barragán. Mexico City; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; The Power Plant, Toronto; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Tate Britain, London; and Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Starling lives and works in Copenhagen