Samson Young
Untitled
2020
Pencil and pastel on paper
39 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
100 x 70 cm
Frame: 42 1/8 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2"
Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong)
Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young works in sound, performance, video, and installation. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo projects include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Ars Electronica, Linz; and documenta 14: documenta radio, among others. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize. His works are in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; and KADIST, Paris.
Hanne Darboven, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, Samson Young
Installation view
Hanne Darboven, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, Samson Young
Installation view
Hanne Darboven, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, Samson Young
Installation view
Nocturne
2018
Performance still
Image courtesy: Hamburger Bahnhof and the artist. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic.
Installation view, Canon in Art Basel Unlimited, 2016.
Installation view, Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky's 5th in 21st Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2018.
Image courtesy of the artist, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; and Team Gallery, New York. Photo: Silversalt Photography.
Live performance of Canon in exhibition "A dark theme keeps me here, I'll make a broken music", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2016/2017.
Image courtesy: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the artist. Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne.
We Are the World, as performed by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Choir
2017
Video still
Image courtesy of the artist.
Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky's 5th
2018
Production still
Installation view, Possible Music 1.5 in exhibition "Instrumentation", Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, 2019.
Image courtesy: Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and the artist. Photo: Lily Yiyi Chan.
Installation view, Possible Music 1.5 in exhibition "Instrumentation", Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, 2019.
Image courtesy: Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and the artist. Photo: Lily Yiyi Ch
Installation view, Possible Music 1.5 in exhibition "Instrumentation", Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, 2019.
Image courtesy: Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and the artist. Photo: Lily Yiyi Chan.
