Photo: Ray Leung
Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young works in sound, performance, video and installation. He represented Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale, and was the recipient of the BMW Art Journey Award, a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Sound Art and Digital Music, and the inaugural Sigg Prize (2019). Young has exhibited at a number of major international venues including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gropius Bau, Berlin, the National Museum of Art, Osaka and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Recent solo projects have been held at the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Manchester International Festival; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, among others. Young studied music, philosophy and gender studies, and graduated with a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013.
