EDUCATION
M.F.A. 1991 CalArts, Valencia, CA
1988 Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.F.A. 1987 North Texas State University (UNT)
1986 Yale School of Art, Summer Fellowship
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS
2014 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship
1986 Yale University School of Art Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC Charles Gaines and Roxana Landaverde Hilja Keading and Julie Shafer Robert Gunderman
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Duo Solo, WALSH AND YOUNG, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles CA
2016 Two for The Road, Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Pasadena CA
2011 Searching for the Eternal Return: Serenading the VIP Bathrooms, Derby Dolls Arena, Los Angeles CA (July 7)
2009 Supreme Court Justice Stevens Claims Shakespeare Was A Fake, Las Cienegas Projects, LA CA
Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
2008 A Monozygotic Experiment Using Telepathic Conveyance: NYC, Exit Art, New York NY (April 11)
THE WHITNEY TEST #1, Neighborhood Public Radio & The Whitney Museum, New York NY (April 12)
2007 A Reading of the July 21st Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles CA
2006 Another Monozygotic Experiment Using Telepathic Conveyance, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
2005 Cops in Traffic, Matrushka Construction, Los Angeles CA
2004 KKY-151.2, Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
2003 A Short Series, Matrushka Construction, Los Angeles CA
2002 Another Monozygotic Experiment Using Telepathic Conveyance: KKY-151.1, ACME, Los Angeles CA (Nov. 21)
2001 A Monozygotic Experiment Of Telepathic Conveyance Using Word Puzzlement: KKY-138. ACME, Los Angeles CA (Oct.6)
2000 Telepathy Project: #9, Super Ball 5, Los Angeles CA (July 29)
1997 Florida Fresh, Striking Distance @ strikingdistance.com
1996 Incubation Series, Kunsthalle Lophem, V.Z.W., Belgium
1995 Office, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1994 Confessions of Love, Food House, Santa Monica CA
Brothers Who Do The Same Work II, Cora Stafford Gallery, U.N.T., Denton TX
1993 Brothers Who Do The Same Work, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena CA
1992 Old Work, Richard Greene Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1990 Rough Draft, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas TX
Simultaneous Events, CalArts, Valencia CA and U.N.T., Denton TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Songs About UFO’s, Idolwild Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2022 Incognito, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
2019 Interwoven: Natural and Illusory Textiles, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro NC
2017 COLA 20, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2016 On the Distant Horizon, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles CA
2014 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
2012 Close Relations and A Few Black Sheep: Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro NC
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
Sunday @ 4, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2011 Morphy vs. Karl: Rematch, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA (Feb. 26)
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
2010 Swap Thing, WPA, Los Angeles CA
The Five Year Plan, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
Paul Morphy vs. Duke Karl 1858: A Benefit for Down Syndrome - Twenty Wonder, Culver City CA (03/06)
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
2009 Decomplexion, Silver Shed, New York NY
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
2008 Documental: Contemporary Video Art in Los Angeles and Dusseldorf
PILOT Projekt Dusseldorf, Germany and Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange CA
Brain Wave: Common Senses, Exit Art, New York NY
2005 Kids of the Black Hole, Stalke Galleri Copenhagen, Denmark
Smack, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles CA
2004 Tar Pit Tales, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Singing My Song, ACME, Los Angeles CA
Miscellany: Short Videos, Marioʼs Furniture, Los Angeles CA
Yarns, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle WA
2002 Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden, ACME, Los Angeles CA
1999 Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles CA
The Touch, Action: Space, Los Angeles CA
1998 Blast Off, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica CA
Cover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles CA
1997 Hot Coffee, (Curated by Tom Lawson), Artists Space, New York NY
Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Group Musings, (Curated by Burnett Miller), Muse, Los Angeles CA
Art Dogs: an exhibit of art about dogs, George’s, Los Angeles CA
1996 The Palace of Good Luck, Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica CA
True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA
1995 Rove, ACME, Santa Monica CA
(At)tempting Compound Dissociation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA
Time +Space: Projects Addressing the Closing of the Site, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica CA
Three-Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation, Diverse Works, Houston TX
1994 Hunk, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York NY
Thanks Again, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica CA
A Cocktail Party, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles CA
Dave’s Not Here, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles CA
Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo TX
1993 Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York NY
Fourth Newport Biennial: Southern California, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach CA
Germinal Notations, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica CA
1992 The FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Sunday at the Weatherspoon.” Elizabeth Bradford, art and life, 06.24.2012. Blog. 01.17.2013. http://www.elizabethbradford.com/blog/tag/kent-and- kevin-young/
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“Kent and Kevin Young, Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock.” Happenstand, 03.27.2009. Website. 01.20.2013.http://www.happenstand.com/sanfrancisco/events/1670-jury-breaks-dna-deadlock
“Steven Wolf Fine Arts: Kent and Kevin Young - Jury Breaks DNA Deadlock.” Alan Bamberger, 03.27.09. ArtBusiness.Com, Website. 04.29.13. http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/032709.html
Devera, Michelle. “ʼJury Breaks DNA Deadlockʼ: Identical issues” San Francisco Chronicle (26 March 2009)
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Madden, Artemis. “A Suspension of Definition: Eight Drawings by Kevin Young” NY ARTS Magazine (June 2002) p. 84
Pagel, David. “Some Things Old, some Things New” Los Angeles Times (10 May 2002)
Greene, David A. “Hot Coffee”, Frieze (May 1997) issue 43, p 76.
DiMichele, David. “ʼBastards of Modernityʼ at Angles Gallery” Artweek (April 1997), vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 22-23
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Saltz, Jerry. “Regular, No Sugar” Time Out (Feb 27-Mar 6, 1997)
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Kandel, Susan. “Domestic Identity” Los Angeles Times (11January 1996)
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Bass, Shermakaye. “Slippery Siblings” Dallas Morning News (6 September 1994)
Devine, Rory. “Heaven Missing” Picturebook #4 (1993) Knaff, Devorah. “The Beast” Artweek (2 December 1993)
Littlefield, Kenney. “Bursting with Diversity, Show Makes its Point” Orange County Register (5 November 1993)
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Village Voice (14 September 1993) Smith, Roberta. “Nine Visitors from California”, New York Times (10 September 1993)
Guenther, Bruce. Fourth Newport Biennial Southern California 1993 (California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1993), p 10 Kandel, Susan. “Everything Old is New Again”, Los Angeles Times (30 July 1992)
Collem, Connie. “Rough Draft” Contact Sheet (volume V, number 4; 1990)
Kutner, Janet. “Rebel Art”, Dallas Morning News (20 January 1990)
Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Apple with a Cause”, Dallas Observer, (18 January 1990)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 Lecturer - UC San Diego (Fall Quarter), Course 104A – Performing the Self
2012 Lecturer - UC San Diego (Winter Quarter), Course 104A – Performing the Self
2010 Lecturer - UC San Diego (Spring Quarter), Courses 107A – Making the Object, and 108 – Advanced Projects.
2002-04 Visiting Artist - UC Irvine, Seniors Exhibition (Taught by Andrea Bowers) - Met with graduating Senior Class for one to two weeks each semester. Conducted class critiques. Discussed exhibition strategies particular to each student’s needs.
2001 Visiting Artist - CalArts, Walls and Bridges Workshop - Offered transitional strategies from academic to professional practice with an emphasis on practical exhibition concerns.
1995 Visiting Artist - CalArts (for Mitchell Syrop)
Beginning Sculpture - UC Irvine (Summer Quarter) - An Introduction to various concepts regarding the nature of sculpture. Assignment objectives were two-fold: 1) to expand the student’s understanding of what constitutes a sculpture and 2) to introduce basic techniques for making three-dimensional objects.
1993 Visiting Artist - Otis College of Art & Design
1990 Visiting Artist - University of North Texas - As a part of SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS, a performance and installation piece, I switched schools with my identical twin brother for two weeks where he was a graduate teaching fellow, and I assumed his responsibilities for teaching his basic drawing and painting classes for two weeks.