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. She has dual US/UK nationality.
Carey Young creates works across a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation. Her works investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Young's projects often centre on notions of language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations and questions for the viewer.
Since 2003 her work has shifted into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with 'Disclaimer', an exhibition at Henry Moore Institute and IBID Projects, London, 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][1].
She has exhibited her work at galleries including the ICA (London), the Whitechapel (London), Secession (Vienna), Kunstverein Munich, Mass MOCA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Her work is in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou, Arts Council England and the Tate Gallery.
