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)
Contact:
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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