Peter Young (artist)

Peter Young
Birth name Peter Ford Young
Born January 2, 1940 (1940-01-02) (age 72)
Pittsburgh, Pa
Nationality American
Field Abstract painting
Movement Abstract Expressionism, Post-minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction

Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 2, 1940. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction. Young has participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions and he has had more than forty solo exhibitions in important contemporary art galleries throughout his career. He currently lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

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Career

He began his career as an abstract painter in New York City during the mid-1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s his paintings were included in two annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Leo Castelli Gallery among several other important venues.

During the summer and early fall of 2007 Young had a major retrospective exhibition of his paintings from the period from 1963 through 1977 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens and at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in Chelsea in New York City.[1]

Awards

Collections

Museum of Modern Art New York City,[2] Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C., St. Louis Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Blanton Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum

Sources

Peter Young, Paintings 1963-1980, copyright the Parc Foundation 2007, ISBN 978 1 931885-68-3

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