Alex Young
US, geboren 1996
BIOGRAPHY
Alex Young is an interdisciplinary (intermedia or postdisciplinary are also good contenders for this line among the more commonly used indicators for mutable practices*) research-based artist, writer, and curator whose practice examines ruderal ecologies, systems, species, and spaces as well as forms of human and other-than-human co-creation. Solo and collaborative projects have been presented internationally at numerous venues, including: 4GROUND: Midwest Land Art Biennial, US; Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, Scotland; Beyond/ In Western New York Biennial, US; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Spanien 19C, Aarhus, Denmark; ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, US. Curatorial projects include Ruderal Futures at SixtyEight Art Institute, Denmark; GROPING in the DARK at MOCA Tucson, US; and Universal Dissolvent: Fragments from the Southern California Megalopolis at San Diego Art Institute, US. Recent editorial and writing projects include Ecology of Bad Ideas for Drain Magazine and A brief constellation towards a ruderal futurism for Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research.
EDUCATION
2007 – MFA Visual Studies (concentration in Sculpture), University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
2005 – BFA Painting/ Art History (minor), Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2022 less lurid less the sky, The Chute, Pittsburgh, PA (with Lindsey french)
2021 Monument to the Common Barberry, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN
2015 Human Interest, Udstillingsstedet Spanien 19C, Aarhus, Denmark
2014 SerfNet, Alkovi Galleria, Helsinki, Finland (with Angela Washko)
2011 Worldshaving, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Possibilities No Longer Interest Me, Marina 59, New York, NY
2007 A View of the Same, Improved, Temporary Institute, Buffalo, NY
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2023 School of Oil and Water, The Knight Foundation, Miami, FL (organizer: Fereshteh Toosi)
Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics, Centre for
Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (with Lindsey french)
2022 4GROUND: Midwest Land Art Biennial, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
(with Lindsey french) (curator: Ginger Shulick Porcella)
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (with Lindsey french)
(curator: Mark Vernon & Barry Burns)
2021 Owning Earth, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY (with Matthew Friday)
(curator: Tal Beery)
2020 Along the Mon, Jefferson Park Experimental, Chicago IL/ online (with Lindsey french and
Erin Mallea) (curator: Keith Helt)