Aaron Young

CV – AARON YOUNG

Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles


EDUCATION

2001 BFA San Francisco Art Institute
2004 MFA Yale University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2005
NEVER WORK (Bootlegs and other operations), Sister, Los Angeles, CA

2004
TENDER BUTTONS, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2005
Uncertain States of America, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum, MOMA, Oslo  Norway (forthcoming) catalog

Day Labor,  P.S.1/MOMA Long Island City, NY (forthcoming) catalog

Mighty Machines, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming) catalog

Euro Tour, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming) catalog

New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

Absolute Summer Show, Kirkhoff Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

NY Bridge Freeze Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery NY, NY

Summer Drawing Show Perry Rubinstein Gallery New York, NY 

Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MOMA Long Island City, NY, catalog

Withdrawal, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

Premieres, Museum Of Modern Art, New York NY, NY

Curatorial Choices: Drawing University of Minnesota Museum, St. Paul, MN

2004
Always Already Passé, Gavin Brown Enterprises @ Passerby NY, NY

Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery NY, NY

Let The Bullshit Run A Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery NY, NY

Miami Heat, Pacemaker Gallery Miami, FL

2003
From Here On, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery New York, NY

Circus, 8th Havana Bienal Havana, Cuba

2001
New Orleans Performance Festival, New Orleans,

LAStrictly Ballroom, Stanford University Museum, 

Palo Alto, CA

2000
Paladar, 7th Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba

AWARDS
The Chancey McKeever Award, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The New Genres Award San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

REVIEWS
THE POST March 2005 “Greater New York” by James Gardner

Artnet.com March 2005 “Irreverent Truths” by Gorgon

ARTS US March-April 2005 Aaron Young @ Midway Contemporary Art by Carla Ruth Dunham

ARTFORUM May 2005 “Greater New York 2005” by David Rimanelli

ART NEWS May 2005 “Greater New York 2005” by Elizabeth Kley

Contemporary no. 73 2005, ”Minneapolis”, by Kris Douglas