Aaron Young

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.

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.

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

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 2007 • Pop Art is: Gagosian Gallery, London • Invisible Colours, Marian Goodman, Paris • Uncertain States of America, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic • Grups, Hydra School Project, Hydra, Greece • No. 1: Destroy she said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany • Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen (catalogue) • Last Attraction, Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London • Dark Victory, Ileana Tounta Contemporary, Athens • Uncertain States of America, CSW Centrum Sztuki, Wspolczesneij/Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland • Uncertain States of America, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark • ParisStop Jalouse Magazine, Palais de Tokyo, Paris • Works from the Berezdivin collection, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico • 2nd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moscow 2006 • View (Eleven): Upstate, Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Mary Boone Gallery, New York • Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K. • Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York • Uncertain States of America, American Art in the Third Millennium, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, New York, NY, U.S.A. • Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • Action, FRAC PACA, Marseille, France • The Show Will Be Open When The Show Will Be Closed, Curated by Adam Carr, STORE gallery and various locations, London and the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris Survivor, Curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York • Mid-Life Crisis, Salander-O’Reilly, New York • Montezuma’s Revenge, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York • Globalizacion: indicaciones/efectos secundarios/advertencias, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico 2005 • Uncertain States Of America, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; traveling to Reykjavik Museum of Art; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Moscow; Musee de Sérignan, Sérignan and Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing (catalogue) • NEW ART. NEW YORK: Reflections on the Human Condition, Traun and Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) • DAY LABOR, P.S.1/MOMA Long Island City, NY (catalogue) • NEW PHOTOGRAPHY, JJC Museum, Kansas City, KS (catalogue) • New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York • Bridge Freeze Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) • Sticks and Stones, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York • Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MOMA, Long Island City, (catalogue) • Withdrawal, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris • PREMIERES, Museum Of Modern Art, New York • Curatorial Choices: Drawing, University of Minnesota Museum, St. Paul, MN 2004 • Always Already Passé, Gavin Brown Enterprises @ Passerby, New York • Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York • Let The Bullshit Run A Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York • Miami Heat, Pacemaker, Gallery Miami, FL 2003 • From Here On, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York • Circus, 8th Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba 2002 • Cinco Artistas Jovenes de Diferentes Paises, Galeria Luis Andelatado, Valencia, Spain 2001 • New Orleans Performance Festival, New Orleans • Strictly Ballroom, Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, California 2000 • Paladar, 7th Havana Bienal, Cuba