Doug and Mike Starn were born in New Jersey in 1961. Identical twins, they work collaboratively with photography and continue defying categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, photography, painting, video, and installation. In Spring 2009, the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authorityʼs Arts for Transit unveiled See It Split, See It Change, a work of public art by the Starn brothers. Their first-ever public commission, the installation created for the South Ferry subway terminal encompasses the entire interior of the station concourse. The approximately 250 foot long artwork ranging from 9 to 14 feet in height, presents the artistsʼ iconic tree photographs, and a leaf transposed into fused glass. Marble mosaics and a water jet cut stainless steel fence punctuate the stationʼs main tree landscape. 
 
In addition to their large Red Hook studio, the Starns are currently building Big Bambú at the former Tallix foundry acting as a laboratory studio space in Beacon, New York. Big Bambú is a seminal architectural installation and constantly evolving construction, formed by a network of more than 2,000 fresh-cut bamboo poles lashed together. This colossal artwork bridges the realms of sculpture, architecture and performance. Doug and Mike Starnʼs art has been the object of numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide including the 1987 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and, the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, the Netherlands.