David Young
Born 1964, Los Angeles
Currently lives and works in New York

david@davidyoung.art
www.davidyoung.art

Education

1991

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, MS in Visual Studies (Advisor: Muriel Cooper)

1986

• University of California, Santa Cruz, BA in Computer Science

Exhibitions (Solo/Duo)

2022

• “Echo Chambers” (with Susan Yelavich), 1053 Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY, USA
• “Quantum Drawings,” Verse, online

2021

• “Liminal,” Hawk & Hive, Andes, NY, USA

Exhibitions (Group)

2025

• “Performance Against Benchmarks,” The Wrong Biennale 7th edition, Online

2024

• Untitled Art (Kate Vass Galerie), Miami, USA
• “From Code to Imagery,” Galerie Joseph, Paris, France
• “Welt anschauen” (“Viewing the World”), Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Chemnitz, Germany
• “darktaxa-project: phtoograify,” Dusseldorf Photo+, Dusseldorf, Germany
• “SHIFT + CTRL,” Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
• “Automat und Mensch 2.0,” Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
• “Parallel Time and Space: Experience, Inclusivity, Exploration,” 6th Art and Science International Exhibition, Beijing, China
• Noise (Kate Vass Galerie), Istanbul, Turkey

2023

• “Expect the Unexpected” (with darktaxa-project), Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
• “darktaxa-project: the Regensburg constellation,” International Photofestival, Regensburg, Germany

2022

• “Deutscher Kaviar (German Caviar),”” Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
• CADAF, New York, NY, USA
• “Digital Landscapes”, Unpaired Gallery, Zug, Switzerland
• “darktaxa-project: The Düsseldorf Constellation,” Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
• India Art Fair (Terrain), Delhi, India
• “Visual Realities - The Computation of Photography,” AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• “The Wood for the Trees,” Hawk & Hive, Andes, NY, USA
• “Edicurial Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online

2021

• “Dandelions,” Rechnender Raum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• “Future Conditional,” GESTE, Paris, France
• “Terrain Offline,” Bikaner House, Delhi, India
• “NFTism: No Fear In Trying,” Institut, London, UK
• “Much of a muchness, blurring the lines,” International Conference on Computational Creativity, online
• “Intertwined Intelligences,” Terrain.art, Delhi, India
• CADAF (Kate Vass Galerie & Elementum), Paris, France
• “NFT Now,” Techspressionism/Kunstmatrix, online
• “Telephone Paintings,” Anteism, Montreal, Canada
• “Abstract Art in the Age of New Media,” Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online

2020

• “darktaxa-project: the Frankfurt Constellation,” Schierke Seinecke Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
• CADAF (Kate Vass Galerie and Novus Projects), online
• “Art For Space,” Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online

2019

• CADAF (Kate Vass Galerie), Miami, FL, USA
• “La Vérité Déguisée (The Truth in Disguise),” GESTE, Paris, France
• “Playing Against the Machine,” 28 Vignon Street, online
• “Augmenting Creativity - Decoding AI and Generative Art,” University Gallery, Nanjing, China
• “Automat und Mensch (Man and Machine),” Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
• “Lux Aeterna,” ISEA2019 Special Exhibition, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea

2018

• “Binary/Non-Binary,” GESTE, Paris, France
• “Machine Learning for Creativity and Design,” NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada

Publications
 

• “Writings” (2023-present) ongoing blog. ➚
• “noPublication” (with darktaxa project) (2021) Published by Walther & Franz König ➚
• “noManifesto” (with darktaxa project) (2020) ➚
• “Tabula Rasa” (2019) ➚
• “Little AI” (2018) ➚
• “Did We Do Something Wrong?” (2017) ➚
• “Designing AI” (2016) ➚

Press

2025

• “Artnet.” ➚

2024

• “European Photography” (issue #115). Text and six images. ➚
• “Foam” (issue #66). ➚

2023

• “Artforum” (Summer 2023). Two page spread ➚
• “Heute Journal.” ZDF tv interview. ➚
• “Studio 1A.” NPR radio interview ➚

2021

• “Stir World.” Feature ➚

2020

• “IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications” (July/August), Cover image and feature ➚
• “Espace Magazine.” Cover image ➚
• “IMPULSE Magazine.” Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) ➚

2019

• “DU Magazine” (issue #897) Interview. ➚

Selected Collections
 

• Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
• Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
• GENAP Collection, Zürich, Switzerland

Teaching

2016-2018

• Adjunct professor, Parsons The New School, New York, NY, USA

1992-2001

• Full-time faculty, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA