AMBER JEAN YOUNG Berkeley, CA [email protected] amberjeanyoung.com
EDUCATION
2010 Master of Fine Art | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California 2008 Post Baccalaureate Certificate | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California 2006 Bachelor of Arts | Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 This Land (j.frede and Amber Jean Young) | Monte Vista Projects | Los Angeles, California | April 22 – May 14, 2017 2016 Jean on Jean (Jenny Sharaf and Amber Jean Young) | Ace Hotel, Palm Springs, California | October 6 – 10, 2016 2014 Vestiges (| Campfire Gallery |San Francisco, California | December 10 – January 11, 2015 There’s A Shape In These Hills I Know | Subliminal Projects | Los Angeles, California, October 18 – November 22, 2014 Visions | Water McBeer | San Francisco, California | June 6 – July 4, 2014 I Remember it in Pieces | Walrus | Oakland, California | February 7 – March 1, 2014 2012 Letters Home | Michael Rosenthal Gallery | San Francisco, California | June 9 – June 30, 2012 2011 Thank You For Listening | Vera Meat | New York City, New York |September 17 – November 7, 2011 Working | Muave? Office of Exhibition | Berkeley, California | February 28 - March 27, 2011
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2017 Gathering: A Venison Magazine Retrospective | Albany, California | July 5 – August 31, 2017 2016 Art Auction 2016 | Root Division | San Francisco, California | October 27, 2016 I Look For Clues In Your Dreams | Berkeley Art Center | Berkeley, California | May 21 – July 17, 2016 Parking Lot Art Fair | Fort Mason Center | San Francisco, California | April 30, 2016 Stitch Modern | Piedmont Center for the Arts | Piedmont, California | April 8 – May 8, 2016 Drinking and Drawing | The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco, California | February 15, 2016 2015 Indigo Mind: Celebrating the Works of Oliver Sacks (Week 5: Hallucinations) | StoreFrontLab | San Francisco, California | October 23 – 29, 2015 Art Auction 2015 | Root Division | San Francisco, California | October 7 – 22, 2015 Resonate | Root Division | San Francisco, California | September 12 – 26, 2015 Collect! Exhibition and Art Auction | Berkeley Art Center | Berkeley, California | September 12 – 26, 2015 Botanica: All Things Plant Life | Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center for the Arts | Walnut Creek, California | July 12- September 6, 2015 2013 Character Profile | Root Division | San Francisco, California | July 10 – 27, 2013 Radius | Horvitz Hall Gallery, Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio | May 24 – June 1, 2013 ArtPadSF Headquarters | San Francisco California | May 16 – 19, 2013 Colpa | We Are Will Brown | San Francisco, California | April 1 – 30, 2013 Dis/Order: Juried Annual 2013 | Pro Arts Gallery | Oakland, California | December 7, 2012—January 11, 2013 2012 By The Skin of Our Teeth: An Exhibition of Alumni Work | Diego Rivera Gallery | San Francisco, California | November 2 - 5, 2012 Kin | The Performance Art Institute | San Francisco, California | August 10, 2012 Taste | Root Division | San Francisco, California | April 19, 2012 Out to Lunch | Wire and Nail Gallery | San Francisco, California | March 17- April 15, 2012 2011 In Brief: A Private Study | Adobe Books Backroom Gallery | San Francisco, California | November 19th – December 18, 2011 You Just Live With It Installation | Michael Rosenthal Gallery |San Francisco, California | October 1 – 15, 2011 ArtPadSF | Robert Berman/E6 Gallery | San Francisco California | May 19 – 22, 2011 Say Something! | Robert Berman/ E6 Gallery | San Francisco, California | January 13 – February 19, 2011 2010 Vernissage 2010 MFA Exhibition | Herbst Pavilion | San Francisco, California | May 15 – 22, 2010 Relief: A Silent Auction to Benefit Haiti | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California In The Neighborhood | Swell Gallery | San Francisco, California 2009 Kings Mountain Art Fair | Kings Mountain | California Tied Together | Diego Rivera Gallery | San Francisco | California First Annual First Show | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California Continuing MFA Group Show | Diego Rivera Gallery | San Francisco, California Figuring Fiction | Swell Gallery | San Francisco, California The Magazine Show | Ever Gold Gallery | San Francisco, California | April 2 - 30, 2009 2008 Alive and Kicking | Swell Gallery | San Francisco, California 2007 Kings Mountain Art Fair |Kings Mountain | California 2006 Molten Division | Olin Gallery | Gambier, Ohio
QUILT SALONS
2016 Sunday Social | Paul Mahder Gallery | Healdsburg California | September 11, 2016 Community Quilt IV | Parking Lot Art Fair | Fort Mason Center | San Francisco, California | April 30, 2016 Community Quilt III | CelerySpace | Berkeley, California | April 2, 2016 2015 Community Quilt II | Makers Workspace | Berkeley, California | December 4, 2015 Community Quilt I | Root Division | San Francisco, California | September 26, 2015
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2012 SECA Art Award Nominee | San Francisco, California Djerassi Resident Artist Program | Woodside California | August 2012 2011 Montana Artist Refuge | Basin Montana | June 2011
COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
2016 Two Apart, 2015 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection Sky Orb// Wild Blue Yonder, 2016 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection 2015 Reimagining Worlds II, 2014 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection 2014 Album Cover Art | Pegi Young | Lonely In A Crowded Room 2011 Film Title Graphic | Neil Young Journeys, directed by Jonathon Demme 2010 Album Art | Pegi Young | Foul Deeds 2009 Painted Piano | Neil Young | Continental tour 2006 DVD Cover Art | Neil Young | Living With War 2000 Album Cover Art | Neil Young | Silver and Gold T-shirt Design | Neil Young | Friends and Relatives tour
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2016 Glen Helfand | “JeansWest” | Ace Hotel Blog | October 6, 2016 The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012 – 2016 Catalog Lawrence Gipe | “The West as Metaphysical Muse” @ the Berkeley Art Center | SquareCylinder.com | June 12, 2016 “Vibrations of Northern California emanate from Berkeley Art Center” | Berkeley Times | July 7, 2016 Kimberly Chun | “Shining takes on Golden State” | San Francisco Chronicle | June 9, 2016 Sarah Burk | “In ‘I Look For Clues in Your Dreams’ at Berkeley Art Center, Artists Rethink California Landscapes” | East Bay Express | May 25, 2016 Arianne Keegan | “Interview with Artist Amber Jean Young” | She/Folk.com |April 2016 Helen Adams | “Amber Jean Young” | TextileCurator.com | April 2016 “I Look For Clues In Your Dreams” | Gia On The Move | March 4, 2016 2015 Amber Imrie-Situnayake | “Amber Jean Young” | VenisonMagazine.com | December 2015 2014 Alyson Camus | “Amber Jean Young’s Art Exhibition at Subliminal Projects” | RockNYCLiveAndRecorded.com | October 2014 Bojan Maric |“Worldmaking” | WideWalls.ch | October 2014 Liz Goldner | “Amber Jean Young” | ArtScene | October 2014 Little Paper Planes Blog | “Amber Jean Young” | blog.littlepaperplanes.com | September 2014 2013 Exte Blog | “Studio Time” | exteblog.com | March 2013 2012 Uhelszki, Jaan | “He’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” | UncutMagazine.com | August 2012 Pattern Pulp | “Coping Mechanisms for a Creative Heart” | PatternPulp.com | July 2012 Artist At Large | “Amber Jean Young At Michael Rosenthal” | June 2012 Bamberger, Alan | ”Sandra Lee – Art People – Varnish Fine Art- Michael Rosenthal – Art Zone 461” | ArtBusiness.com | June, 2012 Paul “Lobster” Wells. “The Kids Are Alright – Reflections on Amber Jean Young’s Art Exhibition” | BamMagazine.com | June 2012 SF Art Enthusiast | “Photo Feature: Amber Jean Young, ‘Letters Home’ at Michael Rosenthal Gallery” | SFArtEnthusiast.com | June 2012. 2011 Bamberger, Alan | “Fifty24SF-Michael Rosenthal-Adobe Backroom-Galeria de la Raza-Driftwood Salon” | ArtBusiness.com | November 2011 2010 JD Beltran | “Why Not” | SFGate.com | May 2010 2010 MusiCares Neil Young Person of the Year Catalog