Rachel Youn
Rachel Youn, 10,000 hours, 2022, Shiatsu massager, artificial plants, wire stand, flower frogs, 39 x 24 x 20 1/2 in.
Rachel Youn, Obliged to play, 2022, Neck massager, artificial flowers, firearm wall rack, 33 x 24 x 18 in.
Rachel Youn, Fixion, 2022, Shiatsu massager, artificial plants, 96 x 96 x 22 in.
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.
Rachel Youn, Snare, 2023, Chi swing and artificial plant, approx. 15 3/4 × 19 3/4 × 17 3/4 in.
Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA) is an artist living and working across sculpture and installation in Albuquerque, NM.
Youn has recently exhibited at Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice, Italy), Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), G Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), Alice Amati (London, UK), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, MO), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s (Belfast, UK), and Soy Capitán (Berlin, Germany), among others.
Youn completed their MFA at Yale School of Art in 2024 and received their BFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. They have completed residencies and fellowships at Scuola Piccola Zattere, Bemis Center, Lighthouse Works, ACRE, and Vermont Studio Center, and are a recipient of the Great Rivers Biennial Award and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Their work has been featured in Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, Artsy, Dazed, Galerie, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Artillery, Elephant, and Vogue, among others. They are represented by Sargent’s Daughters.
Exhibitions
News
Scuola Piccola Zattere Residency | 2026
Test Plot(s), Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT | March 21 – July 5, 2026
Factory Doomscroll, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | February 21 – April 4, 2026
Bemis Center Artist Residency | Fall 2025
Rotate, Hair + Nails, New York, NY | September 3 – September 19, 2025
Esther II 2025 with Sargent’s Daughters, The Estonian House, New York | May 6 – 10, 2025
No Sweat, G Gallery, Seoul, South Korea | April 29 – May 31, 2025
The Here And There Collective | April 22, 2025
Figures of Speech, Alice Amati, London, UK | March 7 – April 12, 2025
Jealous/Sway, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN | September 14, 2024 – March 16, 2025
Art Asia Pacific | October 24, 2024
Pleasure Circuit, Soy Capitán, Berlin, Germany | September 13 – November 2, 2024
Flawless Waltz, Soy Capitán, Berlin, Germany | June 29 – July 27, 2024
The Last Laugh, Podium Gallery, Hong Kong | May 18 – June 29, 2024
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, BoothA-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