CV

Doug Young

Born in Chicago
Lives and works in Brooklyn

download pdf here

EDUCATION

MFA  Pratt Institute
BFA   The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Slow Death of Rocks | Second Street Gallery | Charlottesville, VA
2016 General Dynamics | The Lodge Gallery | New York
        Installation of Chains | Van Doren Waxter | New York
2014 Trace Evidence | The Lodge Gallery | New York
2008 One Soft Infested Summer | Roebling Hall | New York
2007 The Eternity of White | Alcove | New York
2004 The House of Dark Hours | Roebling Hall | Brooklyn
2003 Bell & Young Over and Beyond | The Pond | Chicago
        “Something Else”, WLUW (88.7) FM | Sunday, March 23 | Chicago
2002 Easter Rooftop Performance | Willoughby & Wilson | Brooklyn
        The Garden | John Connelly Presents at Brooklyn Front Gallery | Brooklyn

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture | Making Nature, Issue #49 | “Providence Under Glass” (download article pdf)

AWARDS

2001 Guinness Book World Record Longest non-stop banjo performance in history—24 hours total

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Big Ringer | Andrew Edlin Gallery | New York
2018 Black Friday 2 | George Gallery | Brooklyn
        Bear Necessities | Pratt University |Brooklyn
2016 Paul Brainard: ROASTED | The Lodge Gallery | New York
2015 Post Human Utopia | The Lodge Gallery | New York
2014 Pop-up Brooklyn | Wasserman Projects | Birmingham, MI
        The Invitational | Kunsthalle Galapagos | Brooklyn
        It’s a Bored Nation | Kunsthalle Galapagos | Brooklyn
2013 Into the Vortex | Lesley Heller Workspace | New York
2011 Die Like You Really Mean It | Allegra La Viola Gallery | New York
        Working Together | Sugar | Brooklyn
        Magic | Bumbershoot | Seattle
2010 Love and Freedom | Sugar | Brooklyn
        Magic: The Science of Wonder | Houston Museum of Natural Science | Houston
2009 Los Angeles Conference on Magic History | Los Angeles
        Chelsea Visits Havana | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes | Havana, Cuba
        Town Hall Meeting | Midland Art Center | Indianapolis
        A Taste of Sugar | Sugar | Brooklyn
2007 Mcleod Room | Mcleod Residence | Seattle
2006 Friends of Wyatt | Texas Firehouse | Long Island City, NY
2005 Facing Newark | Newark Arts Council | Newark NJ
        Lumen | Red Saw | Newark, NJ
2004 Dum Dum Grown-Up Art | HEREart | New York
        Infinity | Hogar Collection | Brooklyn
2003 Portraiture Salon Style | Diamantina Gallery | Brooklyn
2001 Banjo Performance | Good Bad Art Collective | Brooklyn
2000 Group Show | Exhibition Space 156 | Brooklyn
1997 Christmas Show | The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center | Brooklyn
1995 Armed for Bear | Backburner Clearinghouse Gallery | Chicago
1994 All Elvis Hunka Hunka Burnin– Love | Tabula Rasa Gallery | Chicago
        Small Works | One Country Gallery | Chicago
1993 Open Walls | ARC Gallery | Chicago
        The Artwork of Jason Bell & Doug Young | Neo-Futuranium | Chicago
        The First Show | The 80 Watt Space | Chicago
1992 Sentimental Art | Beret International Gallery | Chicago

PRESS

Quiet Lunch “General Dynamics. | Doug Young. | The Lodge Gallery.” | November 16, 2016
Bedford + Bowery “Artist Doug Young Attempts to Elevate ‘Low’ Art to Uplifting” | November 15, 2016
Bedford + Bowery “Things We (Can’t Believe We) Saw at Bushwick Open Studios” | June 8, 2015
The Examiner “Winter gallery focus: 2014” | February, 2014
Bedford + Bowery “A Record-Setting Banjo Picker Created These Fantastic Glass Paintings” | February 26, 2014
Whitehot Magazine“Die Like You Really Mean It @ Allegra LaViola Gallery” | November, 2011
The Seattle Weekly“Bumbershoot Visual Art Preview: The Magic Show” | September 2, 2011
The Seattle Times“Bumbershoot Preview: Visual Arts” | September 1, 2011
Breakthrough RadioInterview: Art Uncovered: Doug Young | May 17, 2011
Genii: The Conjurers’ Magazine“The 11th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History” | January 2010 • Volume 73 • Number 1
The New Cuba“Chelsea Visits Havana “ | April 14, 2009
New York Times“Havana Biennial in Which Chelsea takes a Field Trip to Cuba” | March 31, 2009
BBC News“Art Exhibit Fuels US-Cuba Thaw” | March 29, 2009
Reuters (ABC News)“Cuba Opens First Big US Art Exhibit Since 1980’”s | March 28, 2009
Wall Street Journal “Cuba Now” | March 27, 2009
Associated Press “NY Art Exhibit Takes Chelsea to Havana” | March 23, 2009
Sunset“A Lounge for Inspiration” | November, 2007
Interior Design“Fit For a Lady” | September, 2007
NY Arts Magazine“Dum Dum Grown-ups” | March, 2004
Block Magazine“Bringing Art Home” | January, 2004
TimeOut New York“Housing Development” | January 22-29, 2004
24-Hour Banjo MarathonBanjo Newsletter | December, 2001
New York Press“Doug Young Sets a New World Record for Banjo-Playing” | June 6-12, 2001

.