Peter Young

Career

He began his career as an abstract painter in New York City during the mid-1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s his paintings were included in two annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Leo Castelli Gallery among several other venues. In April 1971 his work was discussed at length and appeared on the cover in Artforum magazine, written by art historian and professor of modern art at Oberlin College, Ellen H. Johnson.

During the summer and early fall of 2007 Young had a major retrospective exhibition of his paintings from the period from 1963 through 1977 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens and at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in Chelsea in New York City.

Awards

1968 : National Endowment for the Arts Grant.

1969 : Theodoran Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Collections

Museum of Modern Art New York City

Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.

St. Louis Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum

Blanton Museum of Art

Seattle Art Museum

Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT

Speed Art Museum

Solo exhibitions

2024 : Peter Young and Maren Hassinger: Forms Unbound, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA

2012 : Peter Young, Tucson MOCA, Tucson, Arizona

2012 : Paintings, Algus Greenspon, New York, New York

2007 : Paintings: 1963 – 1977, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, New York

2007 : Folded Mandalas & Oaxacan Paintings, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York

2003 : Small Dot Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1999 : The Mandala Paintings, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

1999 : Linear Weave, Salon, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

1997 : 3 Small Paintings, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

1989 : Dot Collage, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California

1984 : Linear Weave, Oil and Steel Gallery, New York, New York

1980 : Linear Weave, Cochise Fine Art, Bisbee, Arizona

1980 : Linear Weave, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

1976 : Mandalas and Miniatures, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1974 : Mandala Fold, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York

Group exhibitions

2012 : The Emerald City, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2011 : The Indiscipline of Painting, Selected by Daniel Sturgis, Tate St. Ives UK touring to Warwick Art Centre (2011/12)

2012 : The Air Show, Tucson MOCA, Tucson, Arizona

2007 : Block Party II – An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2006 : High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967–1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina

2006 : Block Party – An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2005 : On Paper – Drawings from the 1960s to the Present, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2005 : The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2005 : Amy Granat, Alex Hay, Chuck Nanney, Peter Young, Curated by Olivier Mosset, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium

2005 : Wilder: A Tribute to Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979”, Parrascha and Washburn Galleries, New York, New York

2004 : Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity, MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York

2002 : Dan Walsh & Peter Young, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

In popular culture

Young is featured in the 2016 documentary about Andy Warhol's work, Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off).