Samson Young

Samson Young performing at the Venice Biennale.

Samson Young (born July 6, 1979) is a Hong-Kong artist, working primarily in the medium of sound performance.

Early life and education

Samson Young was born in Hong-Kong. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Hong Kong, and his PhD in music composition from Princeton University.

Work

While Young's background is in music composition, his work as an artist spans a broad range of media, including performance, sound, video, drawing, and wall transfers.

Young's work is frequently political in nature, taking military history and the British occupation of Hong-Kong as subjects.[1][2]

Nocturnal Music, the artist's 2015 exhibition at Team Gallery, centered on a performance, in which the artist sat at a desk for six hours every day, watching muted video footage of night-time airstrikes by the United States on the Middle East and re-creating the audio via foley effects, which he broadcast locally via a pirate FM radio channel.[3]

A 2015 drawing by Samson Young.

Career and recognition

In 2015, Young was the inaugural recipient of the BMW Art Journey Award.[4]

Young was the subject of a solo exhibition, entitled A Dark Theme Keeps Me Here, I'll Play a Broken Music, at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2017.[5]

Young represented Hong-Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale.[6]

Young is represented by Team Gallery in New York and Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne.

Samson Young's website

Team Gallery

Galerie Gisela Capitain

Profile of Samson Young in Artforum

References

  1. ↑ "Samson Young". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  2. ↑ Batty, David (2016-06-18). "Art Basel: a dose of reality with exhibits on snooping and migration". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  3. ↑ "Composing a Symphony of War with Instruments and Everyday Objects". Hyperallergic. 2015-12-09. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  4. ↑ "Samson Young Wins BMW Art Journey - artnet News". artnet News. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  5. ↑ The Editors of ARTnews (2017-01-27). "Samson Young at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf". ARTnews. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  6. ↑ "Samson Young to Represent Hong kong in Venice - artnet News". artnet News. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
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