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 Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), 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 recently completed their MFA at Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT in 2024. 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

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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

A Garden of Promise and Dissent, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT | November 17, 2024 – November 2025

Art Asia Pacific | October 24, 2024

Pleasure Circuit, Soy Capitán, Berlin, Germany | September 13 – November 2, 2024