Aaron Young (born 1972) is an American artist based in New York City. Young's work became known when MoMA purchased video documentation of his student project involving a motorcyclist repeatedly cycling around the San Francisco Art Institute.
Early life and education
Young was born in Salinas, California Where he attended Salinas High School (Class of 1990). He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art.
Career
Young works in sculpture, performance, photography and drawing.
Young is influenced by his former professor, Tony Labat, and the dangerous performance work carried out by Chris Burden in the 1960s.
Solo exhibitions
2011
ALWAYS FOREVER NOW, Almine Rech, Paris, France
SPIT & FIGHT CURSE & BITE, Carlson/Massimo de Carlo, London, UK
BUILT TOUGH, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Museo Civico Diocesano of Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve (PG) Italy
MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea), Rome, Italy
Teatro di Marcello, Rome, Italy
Repeat Offender, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
THE RIGHT WAY TO DO WRONG, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
2009
SEMPER IDEM, Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels
Pan Museum, Naples
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
2008
PUNCHLINE, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Arc Light, Moscow, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow
Smoke Flows in all Directions, Naples, Italy
Pit Stop, Tit Stop, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2007
Greeting Card, Park Avenue Armory
2006
Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida
1%, Harris Lieberman, New York
Aaron Young, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2005
Kick the Dog, Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilya, Israel (catalogue) Never Work (Bootlegs and other operations), Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Tender Buttons, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Group exhibitions
2012
Rebel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Fresh Kills, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City
George Herms : Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), curated by Neville Wakefield, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles Post 9-11, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA With One Color, curated by Paul McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY California Dreamin - Myths And Legends Of Los Angeles, Curated by Hedi Slimane, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2010
Yotta Paintings, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Exhibition Exhibition, curated by Adam Carr, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Celebration 8, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU SEE, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dichtor Hallen Aktuelle Kunst Haus Der Photographie, Hamburg Brucennial, curated by Vito Schnabel, New York Wall & Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Bortolami Gallery at The Webster, Miami
2009
IT AIN’T FAIR 2009, OHWOW, Miami Beach
Rotating Views #2 - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Play, Paradise Row, in collaboration with Prakke Contemporary, London 100 Years (Version #2, PS1) Julia Stoschek Foundation, PS1, New York Spite House, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London The End, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Political/Minimal, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and The Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, 2009 The Unforgiven, Stellan Holm Gallery, NY Off, Off Bowery, Curators Aaron Bondaroff & Jen Brill, Chez Colette, Paris, France For What You Are About To Receive, Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia Shaping a space II, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal Murder Letters, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal United Artist Ltd., Marfa, TX Substraction, Deitch Projects, New York, curated by Nicola Vassell