Nicole Young
Nicole Young’s work is an exploration of materials through the lens of environmentalism. She uses a combination of natural pigments, recycled canvas and acrylics she has painted, and repurposed textiles to convey the connections formed between the natural and man-made world, and memories that call to a sense of nostalgia. She approaches her work with the mentality that nothing will be wasted during the creation process, and this idea affects the way she creates everything, from paper studies to large scale installations. Any leftover materials are always used in future paintings, and the production of pigments is of equal importance to the creation of the final work itself. In making this work, she is demonstrating the value of working with the land, and creating art within a circular economy.
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“My current body of work is diaristic in nature, and more focused on documentation than my previous works have been. I am considering the places that I’ve come from, my previous works, and how they affect the work I am creating now. I find textiles to be so closely tied to memory, and I’m interested in exploring the relationships we have to memory, and whether or not anyone’s memory can really be considered accurate.” – Nicole Young, 2025
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Artist Information
Artist Website: http://www.nicoleyoungart.com
Kenna is particularly well-known for the intimate scale of his photography and his meticulous personal printing style. He works in the traditional, non-digital, silver photographic medium. His exquisitely hand crafted black and white prints, which he makes in his own darkroom, reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality.
During Kenna’s fifty year career, his photographic prints have been shown in almost five hundred one-person exhibitions and over four hundred group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world. They are also included in well over a hundred permanent institutional collections. Ninety monographs and exhibition catalogs have so far been published on Kenna’s work.
In 2022, Kenna was awarded the decoration of Officier des Art et des Lettres at Paris Photo by Rima Abdul Malak, the Minister of Culture in France. With this award, Kenna’s life archive is now being housed by the French State at the Mediatheque de Photographie et Patrimoine (MPP) at Fort Saint-Cyr in Montigny-le Bretonneux (Yvelines). The donation included 3,683 original silver gelatin photographic prints of images made in 43 different countries, along with their accompanying negatives and scans, 175,000 other negatives accompanied by their corresponding contact sheets, 6,422 working prints from the years 1983-2000, 1,280 Polaroid prints, 100 books and monographs printed on his work, and all the archives relating to his artistic activity for the past 50 years.
Residence: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Born: 1990, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 I Was There, I Forget The Rest, THIS Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Grow, Spill, Wrap, Reveal, Ranger Station Art Gallery, Harrison, BC
2022 Shifting Forms, Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2020 Backstitch, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2019 Marginalia, Courtney Ungaro Space and Design, Kelowna, BC
2019 What’s Still Here, What Came Before Us, LCPAG, Lake Country, BC
2017 Rivers and Roads to Find You, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 100 Amigos, Opal Projects, Vancouver, BC
2025 Home Body, Two Faced Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Tactile Memories, North Van Arts, North Vancouver, BC
2023 Order and Chaos, True Colour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2023 100 Amigos, Opal Projects, Vancouver, BC
2023 Co-Create, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee
2023 Intergalactic Open, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2022 Not! An Art Fair, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2022 Stories I Tell Myself, Visionary Art Collective, Online Exhibition
2021 Hot Damn, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2020 Minimalism, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2020 Irregularly Scheduled, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2019 CLIP: An International Exhibition of Works on Paper, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, Texas
2019 New School Abstract, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, California
2016 Draped/Double Take, Lake Country Public Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
Selected Bibliography
2023 Arts to Hearts Project – Studio Visit Book Vol. 1
2023 Hart House Review, 2022-2023 Spring Edition
2023 Five Questions to Nicole Young, New & Abstract
2022 Sustainable Artist Nicole Young Uses Nature as Medium, Art Journal
Residencies
2022 Kent Harrison Arts Council, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
Education
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
2014 Go Global Study Abroad Program, University of California, Los Angeles
2025 – Sewn Textiles
2026 Artnet – Nicole Young’s Art Lives Between Paint and Fabric
2023 Arts to Hearts Project – Studio Visit Book Vol. 1
2023 Hart House Review, 2022-2023 Spring Edition
2023 Five Questions to Nicole Young, New & Abstract
2022 Sustainable Artist Nicole Young Uses Nature as Medium, Art Journal