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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

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

Nocturne

2018

Performance still

 

Image courtesy: Hamburger Bahnhof and the artist. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic.

Installation view, Canon in Art Basel Unlimited, 2016.

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.,  

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.,  

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

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

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.,  

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.,  

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.,  

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.