Full Name Carey Young Role Visual Artist | Name Carey Young Nationality UK/US | |
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Education Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Brighton, Royal College of Art | ||
Kosmica july 2011 carey young
Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation into her art works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial.
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- Kosmica july 2011 carey young
- Early life and education
- Exhibitions and themes
- Teaching
- Other publications
- Periodicals
- Web articles
- Books
- References
Early life and education
Born in Lusaka in Zambia in 1970, Young studied in England at Manchester Polytechnic, the University of Brighton and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. She has dual USA/UK citizenship.
Exhibitions and themes
Young has exhibited her work at many galleries all over the world. Highlights include the ICA, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, Secession, Kunstverein Munich, Mass MOCA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Young's work is included in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou, Arts Council England, and the Tate. She is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Young's projects often center on notions of language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance to create a web of complex questions for the viewer. Since 2003, her work has shifted into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with 'Disclaimer', an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute examining the legal disclaimer as a form of negative space. In 2005, she showed 'Consideration', a series of works exploring the connections between contract law and performance art at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial. RoseLee Goldberg has described the works in this show as "dealing with the overwhelming power of the law."
Her 2013 exhibit "Legal Fictions" at Migros Museum in Zurich was described by Mousse Magazine as
"law-based works [that] address the monolithic power of the legal system. The artist examines law as a conceptual and abstract space in which power, rights, and authority are played out through varying forms of performance and language. With the drafting assistance of legal advisers, her works often take the form of experimental but functional legal instruments such as contracts, and also employ media such as video, installation, and text."
Teaching
Young currently teaches at the Slade School of Art. She has taught at other institutions as well:
Other publications
Young's work has been included in several traditional and non-traditional publications, such as the book Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom,Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, edited by Adler P. 2012, and a number of videos and audio recordings.