Carey Young
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Carey Young (born 1970) is an artist.
Born in Lusaka in Zambia, Young studied in England at Manchester Polytechnic, the University of Brighton and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Much of her work as an artist is related to her previous work for a leftist thinktank and as a management consultant. In Nothing Ventured, she had visitors to a gallery ring a call centre, where the people manning the phones gave the caller a range of generic information (Young's name, a list of previous exhibitions, influences and so on).
In 2003, Young was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize, the ICA's show for new art, which aims to discover "Tomorrow's Talent Today!". That mission appeared to take something of a back seat in the build-up to the awards ceremony as accusations of plagiarism surfaced through several reports in newspapers and art magazines, addressing a dispute over the alleged relationship between one of Youngs contribution to the show, entitled Non-Disclosure Agreement and an earlier work by another conceptual artist Lowendahl-Atomic, who incorporated a non-disclosure agreement as an intrinsic element of an artwork already in 2000.
Youngs contribution to the show, entitled Non-Disclosure Agreement was represented in the show by a Non-Disclosure Agreement contract signed by a representative of Beck's, which agrees that the piece will not be shown, creating a parallel with privatised corporate art collection, whose works are also often removed from public gaze whilst used to further the brand worth of the corporation.
More recently her work has shiften into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with 'Disclaimer', an exhibition at Henry Moore Institute and IBID Projects, London, examining the 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.
Her work has been included in the 'British Art Show 6', which tours the UK in 2005/6.
