Ben Young is an artist based in Aotearoa, New Zealand.


Gallery Representation:

Black Door Gallery (Auckland, NZ)
Whistler Contemporary Gallery (Whistler, BC)
Red Sea Gallery (Singapore)
New Zealand Glassworks (Whanganui, NZ)
Art Bay Gallery (Queenstown, NZ)

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Solo Exhibitions: 

  • 2024 Delicate Space, Chesterfield Gallery (New York, USA)

  • 2022 Reconnect, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2020 Immersed, Red Sea Gallery (Singapore)

  • 2020 Release, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2018 Little Worlds, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2017 Sentiments of the Sublime, Red Sea Gallery (Singapore)

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist (Sydney AUS)

  • 2024 Folded Landscapes, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2024 RT Nelson Awards for Sculpture (Wellington NZ)

  • 2023 ArtGlass23, New Zealand Glassworks (Whanganui NZ)

  • 2022 Aotearoa Art Fair, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2022 Glass Art Fair, Habatat Galleries (Detroit USA)

  • 2022 Fired Up:Glass Today, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Connecticut USA)

  • 2022 NZSAG Member’s Exhibition, Sarjeant Art Gallery (Whanganui NZ)

  • 2021 Auckland Art Fair, Black Door Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2020 Art Glass 20, New Zealand Glassworks (Whanganui NZ)

  • 2018 Art Taipei, Red Sea Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)

  • 2018 100 Artists, Allpress Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2018 Shift Exhibition with Zico O’Neill, Allpress Gallery (Auckland NZ)

  • 2017 The Salon Art + Design, Chesterfield Gallery
    (New York USA)

  • 2017 Art Wynwood, Chesterfield Galleries (Miami USA)

  • 2017 Virtuoso II, Kirra Galleries(Melbourne AUS)

  • 2017 Singapore Art Fair, Red Sea Gallery (Singapore)

  • 2016 SOFA Sculpture Objects Functional Art & Design Fair (Chicago USA)

  • 2016 KIGA, Kirra Illuminating Glass Award (Federation Square, Melbourne AUS)

  • 2016 Land, Sea & Sky, Kirra Galleries (Melbourne AUS)

  • 2015 SOFA Sculpture Objects Functional Art & Design Fair (Chicago USA) 

  • 2015 Harbour Sculpture (Sydney AUS)

  • 2015 Floating, Kirra Galleries (Melbourne AUS)

  • 2015 Small Works to A3, Glass Artists Gallery
    (Sydney AUS)

  • 2014 SOFA Sculpture Objects Functional Art & Design Fair (Chicago USA) 

  • 2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist (Sydney AUS)

  • 2014 Ranamok Glass Prize Finalist (Canberra Glassworks,
    Angel Place Foyer - Sydney & Riverside Centre - Brisbane AUS)

  • 2014 Harbour Sculpture (Sydney AUS)

  • 2014 Narrative in Glass, Kirra Galleries (Melbourne AUS)

  • 2010 Looking Glass: reflecting ideas (Sarjeant Gallery Wanganui, and Pataka Art & Museum, Wellington, NZ)
    (featured on catalogue cover) Curated by Grace Cochrane.

  • 2010 Re:fraction: outdoor glass sculpture exhibition,
    The Sculpture Park Waitakaruru Arboretum (Hamilton NZ)

  • 2009 Royal Easter Show (Auckland NZ)

Awards:

  • 2015 People’s Choice Award - Harbour Sculpture (Sydney AUS)

  • 2014 Mayors Award & People’s Choice Award - Woolhara Small Sculpture Prize (Sydney AUS)

Conversations:

  • Top Artist Podcast, My Modern Met - Listen here

  • Radio New Zealand ‘Glass-worker Ben Young's unique practice’ Listen here

  • 2019 The CoLab Conference, NZSAG & Ausglass - Guest Speaker (Whanganui NZ)

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© Olivia Renouf 2023