Born 1956 in Hong Kong.

EDUCATION:
1967
Studies in Australia

1974/77
University of Sydney (Philosophy)
Thesis (Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Epistemology) 1977

1978/80     
Sydney College of the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), The University of Sydney

1983/94
Lecturer in Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
Lecturer, Post Graduate Painting Studio, Sydney College of the Arts

1997/98
President, Asian Australian Artists' Association (now the Asia-Australia Arts Centre)

Currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Melbourne, where his studio is based.

John Young was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 1967. Since his first exhibition in 1979, he has exhibited extensively with his works being shown in major exhibitions both in Australia and abroad, at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and major public galleries and institutions through out the world. His works are included in many private and corporate collections, and he is also represented in the collections of all major public galleries and museums in Australia. A large survey exhibition covering 27 years of works was held at the Tarrawara Museum of Art, Victoria in 2005/2006 and a major monograph published by Craftsman House, Thames and Hudson to coincide with this show. He currently lives in Melbourne with his partner, Kate Mizrahi and two children, Jasper and Charlotte Persia.


FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION
1982
The Second Mirage, Rosroe, Connemara, Ireland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2011
Safety Zone, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (forthcoming), Australia
Empathy: Khai Liew and John Young, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia

2010         
Apparition, The Helper, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia
Safety Zone, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2009
Strachan’s Room, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
Bonhoeffer in Harlem, Installation at St. Matthaus Church, Kulturforum, Berlin (in conjunction with Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin/Beijing), Germany

2008
1967Dispersion, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
The Day After Tomorrow, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia
John Young, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth (in conjunction with Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne), Australia

2007
Walden In China, Nanjing Library Gallery, Nanjing, China
Return, via new paths, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Naive and Sentimental Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006
Detours and Variations, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Open World, Cowen Gallery, State Library of Victoria; Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW; Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

2005
Orient/Occident: John Young - a survey of works, 1978-2005, curated by Maudie Palmer, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
The Fundamental Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
French Wallpaper and Numeral Paintings, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Near Sanctuary, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2004
The Persian Paintings, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

2003
Reversals, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Three Propositions, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Void Path, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong

2002
Unstable Cultures, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia

2001
Pine's Edge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2000
Works for a Considered Tourist, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Awful Backlash, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
Scholar Rocks, Nymphs and Paint blotches, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, Australia
Arrivals, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, Australia

1999
The Hermit Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1998
Sequences from Heaven, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Matteo Ricci in Goa, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia

1997
Works on Paper, Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo

1996
Paradigm Fountain, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
Welcome to the Villa, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1995
The Bridge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1994
Diaspora Asia, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia

1993
John Young, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia

1992
Pony My Neighbor, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Models and Animals in Camera, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1991
Bad Faith Realism, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1990
Polychrome Paintings, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1989
Ordinary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
A Sudden Rush of Devotion, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia
Chameleon Contemporary Artspace, Hobart, Australia

1988
Light of Day, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia
3 States, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney; City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1987
After Virtue, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1986
Winter Palace, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1985
The Grey Light, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1984
John Young, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

1983
Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1982
The Second Mirage, Rosroe, Connemara, Ireland, UK


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, curated by Sebastian Moody, catalogue produced (forthcoming)
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (forthcoming)
Sound + Vision (with Robert Jacks, David Band and Jeremy Kibel), Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Mid-Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

2009
Ein Bild ist Ein Bild/ The Wunderkammer, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Langue Froid – Cold Language/Tongue, Conny Dietzchold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Coming Home, The Linda Gallery Beijing, China, curated by Catherine Croll, catalogue produced

2008
Die Wahren Orte, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin/Beijing
art la, The New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair, Barker Hanger Santa Monica, USA, January 23 - 25

2007
ShContemporary 2007, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China
Art Miami 2007, Miami Beach Convention Centre, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Contemporary 1985 – 2005, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
Gallery Artists Group Show 8, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2006
Melbourne International Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Still Life and Interior, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Year In Art, National Trust, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Decade: Acquisitions 1996-2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

2005
The 4th Korea International Art Fair, COEX Indian Hall, Seoul, Korea
Art For Science, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

2004
2004 Fundraising Exhibition, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Festivus - One Of, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
BerlinStore Project: Kiki Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
A Real China Club Night, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Bridges: Contemporary Art from China, Siemans Forum Bayern, Munich, Germany
Chinese: Artists between tradition and present, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Potenza, Potenza, Italy, in collaboration with Pruss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin and Gallery Torbandena, Trieste, curated by Laura Gavioli, catalogue produced

2003
New Beaut Country: Selected works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Die Neue Kunsthalle II / Die Wirklichkeit des Individuums, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Art Cologne 2003, Cologne, Germany
ArtForum Berlin 2003, Berlin, Germany
See, Here, Now - Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990's, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Festivus 03, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Austral-Asia Zero Three, (with Xu Bing, Cai Guo Qiang, Gu Wenda et.al), Sherman Galleries, Sydney, catalogue produced
Collaged World, curated by Robert Lindsay, catalogue, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Australia

2002
Site + Sight: translating cultures, Asian Civilisations Museum, Earl Lu Galleries, Singapore, curated by Binghui Huangfu, catalogue produced
Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, catalogue produced
We Are Australian, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia
ARCO '02, Madrid Art Fair, 2002, Madrid, catalogue produced
Art Chicago 2002, Chicago Art Fair, Festival Hall, Chicago, USA,catalogue produced
Dressing & Dreaming, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Towards a Free Tibet, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
No Muttering, curated by Rilka Oakley, QCA Gallery, Brisbane; Gosford Regional Art Gallery, NSW, catalogue produced

2001
MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
A studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite, curated by Jane Watters, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
No Muttering, curated by Rilka Oakley, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2000, catalogue produced

2000
The Rose Crossing, curated by William Wright, Singapore; Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, catalogue produced
An Affair to Remember, Australian High Commission, Singapore
Restricting the Palette: Colour and Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery, curated by John Gage, Canberra, Australia, catalogue produced

1999
The Rose Crossing, curated by William Wright, Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia ,catalogue produced
Mike Parr, Bernard Sachs, Imants Tillers, John Young, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
Identity Art, Australian Museums Touring Exhibition, Olympic Travelling Exhibition, curated by Colin Simpson, Australian Museum and Embassies in Tokyo, Hong Kong & Singapore, catalogue produced
Works on Paper, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
We Are Australian, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, curated by David Thomas, Melbourne and travelling exhibition around Australia until 2002, catalogue produced

1998
Remanence, Old Melbourne Magistrate's Court, Melbourne Festival, curated by Maudie Palmer, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced
Transit, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Festival, curated by Anthony Bond, Sydney
Australian Contemporary International Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Twenty First Birthday Alumni Show, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, curated by Brad Buckley, Sydney, Australia

1997
Tokyo International Art Fair, Tokyo Exhibition Hall, Tokyo
Works on Paper, Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo
The John Macaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Jason Smith, Melbourne, Australia
Anon, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, curated by William Wright, Sydney, Australia
Geometric Painting in Australia 1941–1997, University of Queensland Art Museum, curated by David Pestorius, Brisbane, Australia ,catalogue produced

1996
Systems End, curated by William Wright and Takeshi Kanazawa, Oxy Gallery, Osaka; Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone; Dong An Gallery, Seoul; Kaoshung Museum of Art, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, catalogue produced
Spirit and Place: A Century of Art in Australia, The Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Nick Waterlow and Ross Mellick, Sydney, Kaoshiung, catalogue produced
Above and Beyond, curated by Clare Williamson and Michael Snelling, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; 24HR Art, Darwin; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, catalogue produced
Flagging the Republic, curated by William Wright, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney; Newcastle Regional Art Museum, Newcastle, UK, catalogue produced
Vicente Butron, Limited Action Paintings, Limited Actions performed by John Young together with Melissa Chiu and Felicia Kan, CBD Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1995
Antipodean Currents, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, curated by Julia Robinson,
New York, USA, catalogue produced
Perspecta '95, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Judy Annear, Sydney, Australia , catalogue produced
Double Vision, Ivan Doherty Gallery, curated by Ben Curnow, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Hong Kong-Sydney, Fringe Gallery, curated by James Wong, Hong Kong, catalogue produced
NICAF, Yokohama Art Festival, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
Imaginary Pictures, Kinesis Gallery, curated by John Young, Sydney, catalogue produced
Transcultural Painting, Ian Potter Museum of Art, curated by Merryn Gates and Frances Lindsay, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced
Anthology (Already Self-Portrait), Artspace, curated by Melissa Chiu, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Xmas Show, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

1994
Antipodean Currents, curated by Julia Robinson, The Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C., USA, catalogue produced
Transcultural Painting, curated by Merryn Gates and Frances Lindsay, toured Taichung Museum of Art, Taiwan; Tamsui Centre for Arts and Culture, Tamsui, Taipei; Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong, Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts, Guangzhou; Song He Tan Gallery, Beijing, China, catalogue produced
The Grid, The Robert Lindsay Gallery, curated by Rachel Kent, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced
Critiques, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Confess and Conceal, 11 insights from contemporary Australia and South East Asia, curated by Margaret Moore and Michael O'Ferrall, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila; Australia High Commission, Kuala Lumpur; Gedung Pameran Seni Rupa; Gambir Exhibition Hall, Jakarta, Indonesia, catalogue produced

1993
Confess and Conceal, 11 insights from contemporary Australia and South East Asia, curated by Margaret Moore and Michael O'Ferrall, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, catalogue produced
John Young, Dale Frank and Imants Tillers, Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney, Australia,
Colour, curated by John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Love, Love, Love, 501 Overground Gallery, curated by Victoria Lobregat, Sydney, Australia
Art Asia, Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong

1992
Works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Courts and Jesters, Arts Multiplicata, curated by Jeff Gibson, Sydney, Australia
The Nude 1992, Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Anna Clabburn and Maudie Palmer, Melbourne, Australia ,catalogue produced

1991
Art from Australia: Eight Contemporary Views, curated by Alison Carroll, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore, catalogue produced
Works by Artists of the Gallery, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia
Perspecta '91 satellite show, Steam, curated by Vicente Butron and Janet Shanks, catalogue, Sydney The Hypothesis of Imitation, Bellas Gallery, curated by Rex Butler, Brisbane, Australia ,catalogue produced
The Hypothesis of Imitation, Sutton Gallery, curated by Rex Butler, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Art Archive, opening exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Sue Cramer, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Models, ARS Multiplicata, curated by John Nixon, Sydney, Australia

1990
ARCO 90, Madrid, Spain
Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Victoria Lynn, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Contemporary Art Acquisitions of the '80s, National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Robert Lindsay, Melbourne, Australia
Art from Australia: Eight Contemporary Views, curated by Alison Carroll, National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Gedung Seni Rupa, Jakarta, Indonesia, catalogue produced

1989
Surface Paradise, Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Terence Maloon, Sydney, Australia
Colour Blind, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Cosmos, City Gallery, curated by John Nixon, Melbourne, Australia
Victory over the Sun, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The New Naturalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, catalogue produced
In Full Sunlight, aglassofwater, Brisbane; 10,000 feet, Melbourne; First Draft (West), Sydney
Collaborations, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
ICI Contemporary Art Collection, curated by William Wright and Anthony Bond, touring exhibition around Australia, catalogue produced

1988
The XXIV Olympiad of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Pierre Restany, Thomas Messer, Ante Glibota, Seoul Moët and Chandon, touring exhibition around Australia, catalogue produced
The Figure, The Andrew and Lilian Pedersen Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, curated by Clare Williamson, Brisbane RACV, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced
History, Institute of Modern Art, curated by Sue Cramer, Brisbane, Australia, catalogue produced
Nine by Five, The Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Re-Animator, Artspace, curated by Catharine Lumby, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Fine Arts, Melbourne, Australia

1987
The Repeated Image, Brisbane Civic Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Moët and Chandon, touring exhibition around Australia, Australia, catalogue produced
The Shadow of Reason, Institute of Modern Art, curated by Judy Annear, Brisbane, Australia, catalogue produced
In Print, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, curated by Kay Campbell and Katherine Moline, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Australian and International Acquisitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Young Australians, Murdoch Court, National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Robert Lindsay, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced
Selected Contemporary Drawings, Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Maudie Palmer, Melbourne, Australia, catalogue produced

1986
Falls the Shadow, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Pharmakon, Yuill/Crowley, curated by Nicholas Baume, Sydney, Australia
The Hand and the Photograph, Australian Centre for Photography, curated by Martyn Jolly, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced
Various Artists Ltd, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

1985
Making Appearances, Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall, curated by Gary Sangster, Copenhagen, Denmark, catalogue produced
Hong Kong Arts Centre, curated by Michael Chan, Hong Kong, catalogue produced
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Judy Annear and Anthony Bond, Sydney, Australia , catalogue produced
Various Artists Ltd., Sydney, Australia
Visual Tension, curated by Ashley Crawford, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Design for Living, Artspace, curated by Edward Colless, Sydney, Australia, catalogue produced

1984
Show No Cowardness, Institute of Modern Art, curated by Peter Cripps, Brisbane, Australia,  catalogue produced
Drawing Sex, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia
University of Tasmania Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Off Colour, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia

1983
A Local Mirage (4), Artspace, Sydney, Australia
A Local Mirage (5), Artists' Books, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
The Life of Energies, Artspace, curated by John Young, Sydney, Australia catalogue produced The Cinimera, n-space, Sydney, Australia

1982
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, George Paton Gallery, curated by Judy Annear, Melbourne, catalogue produced
Temple of the Winds, n-space, Melbourne, Australia
A Local Mirage (2), Art/Concept/Research, Cite Internationale des Arts, Salon, Paris, France
A Local Mirage (3), Zona Gallery, Florence, Itlay

1981
Frame of Reference, Australian travelling version
Art/Empire/Industry Gallery, catalogue produced, Sydney, Australia
A Local Mirage, n-space, Melbourne, Australia

1980
Experimental Art Foundation, curated by Noel Sheridan, Adelaide, Australia
Frame of Reference, George Paton Gallery, curated by Judy Annear, Melbourne, catalogue produced

1979
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia