Photo: John Young
John Young (Young Zerunge) (1956) was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 1967. His ongoing investigation of Western late modernism has prompted significant phases of work from a transcultural viewpoint with a focus on development in the Asia-Pacific region. Young was the recipient of the Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship in 2013 to research the history of the Chinese diaspora in Australia.
Young’s work is collected by national galleries around Australia, as well as important international museums. He has permanent installations in Hong Kong, Nanjing, Tokyo, and Bamberg, Germany. He has had more than 70 solo exhibitions and over 160 group exhibitions, including representing Australia at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York). The TarraWarra Museum of Art (Victoria, Australia) hosted a survey exhibition covering 27 years of his work in 2005-06. In 2013, a second survey exhibition was held in Canberra at the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery. Three monographs have been published on his practice and he has written extensively for art journals.