Rachel Youn
Endure, 2023, spring horse frame, shiatsu neck massager, artificial orchids, polyurethane swivel casters, stainless steel bird spikes, 35 x 25 x 40 in.
Sexy but not joyous, 2022, Shiatsu massager, artificial flowers, broken tire jack, 30 x 32 x 22.5 in.
Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA) is an artist living and working in New Haven, CT, working across sculpture and installation.
Youn has recently exhibited at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, MO), Soy Capitán (Berlin, Germany), Truman State University Art Gallery (Kirksville, MO), Linseed Gallery (London, UK), VSOP Projects (Greenport, NY), McClain Gallery (Houston, TX), Contemporary Arts Center (Columbus, OH), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s (Belfast, UK), Brutus (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), La Clinica (Oaxaca, México) HAIR + NAILS (Minneapolis, MN), and the Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO).
Youn is a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and the 2020 Great Rivers Biennial Award. They received their BFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Youn is currently an MFA candidate at Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT. Youn’s work has been reviewed in the LA Review of Books, Artillery Magazine, Elephant, amongst others. They are represented by Sargent’s Daughters.
Exhibitions
News
Perfect Trouble: Queering Culturenature, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY | April 20 – August 11, 2024
MFA Sculpture Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT | March 1 – 8, 2024
Sarah Slappey and Rachel Youn in conversation with Nina Mdivani | Saturday, January 20 at 4pm
Hyperallergic | January 7, 2024
Offworlds, YveYANG Gallery, New York, NY | October 21 – December 2, 2023
LA Review of Books | October 11, 2023
Artillery Magazine | October 4, 2023
Gestures of Resistance, LINSEED, A.I Gallery, London, UK | October 5 – November 25, 2023
Well Adjusted, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | September 23 – October 28, 2023
Alex Katz: Flowers, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX | May 20 – July 29, 2023
FINDERS KEEPERS, VSOP Projects, curated by Natalie Baxter, Greenport, NY | June 3 – July 16, 2023
The Butterfly Effect, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy | May 11 – October 15, 2023
Ecologies of Elsewhere, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | February 10 – August 6, 2023
Art Cologne, with Soy Capitán, Booth A-302 in Hall 11.2, Cologne, Germany | November 16 – 20, 2022
NGXX, Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, Belfast, Northern Ireland | October 13, 2022 – January 29, 2023
Forest Through the Trees, Lau Meier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO | August 27 – December 11, 2022
a knife to carve a knife with, La Clínica, Oaxaca, México | August 26 – October 16, 2022
Stranger Things, Here Gallery, Pittsburg, PA | August 19 – September 25, 2022