Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation into her art works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial world. Young's projects often center on notions of language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex questions for the viewer.
Born in Lusaka in Zambia in 1970, Young studied in England at Manchester Polytechnic, the University of Brighton and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. She has dual USA/UK citizenship.
Young has exhibited her work at galleries including the ICA, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, Secession, Kunstverein Munich, Mass MOCA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Since 2003, her work has shifted into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with 'Disclaimer', an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute examining the legal disclaimer as a form of negative space. In 2005, she showed 'Consideration', a series of works exploring the connections between contract law and performance art at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial. RoseLee Goldberg has described the works in this show as "dealing with the overwhelming power of the law."
Young's work is included in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou, Arts Council England, and the Tate. She teaches at the Slade School of Art and is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
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