Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

As a celebrity photographer and music video director, Young produced numerous photographs of celebrities and over 100 videos for MTV. His celebrity photographs range from George Michael�s album cover Faith to shots for Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

In 2003, Young presented Pig Portraits, a series of silkscreen paintings of Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Sid Vicious and Juliette Lewis etc, not in their glamorous moments, but in police mug shots. According to Young, his method of working is �to search, destroy and create�. After acquiring images of celebrities from police departments, newspaper cuttings or e-bay, he enlarges it up to 5 feet tall, then silkscreens them onto canvas, then washes out the images in faded pink, blue, yellow, black and silver.

The artist admits to the idea to create “anti-celebrity” portraits as a reaction to his former career of glamourising people. However, �the glamour in the dark side of crime, fame, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll turned out to be even more iconic in its undeniably raw beauty.

Since his sold-out show of Pig Portraits at the Don O’ Melveny Gallery, LA, Young’s works are now being collected by the most discerning collectors worldwide.