Prof. YOUNG Samson (楊嘉輝)

Samson Young works in sound, performance, video, and installation. In 2017 he represented Hong Kong with a solo project titled Songs for Disaster Relief at the 57th Venice Biennale. He was the recipient of the BMW Art Journey Award, a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Sound Art and Digital Music, and in 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize.

He has exhibited internationally at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Kochi-muziris Biennial; Shanghai Biennale; Guangzhou Triennial; Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam; Boras Art Biennale, Sweden; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea; Ars Electronica, Linz; documenta 14: documenta radio; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, among others.

Selected solo projects include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (upcoming); SMART Museum, Chicago; the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Villa Hugel, Essen; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art & Manchester International Festival, Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at the Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, among others.

His works are in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, UK; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan; the Israel Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem; Jameel Art Center, Dubai; Kadist Foundation, Paris & San Francisco; ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart & Berlin; Sunpride Foundation and K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai; SMART Museum of Art, University of Chicago; University of Salford Art Collection, Manchester; Sigg Collection, Switzerland; r/e Collection, Madrid; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; Akeroyd Collection, Burger Collection and Living Collection, Hong Kong; and the UBS Art Collection, among others.

While he works across many disciplines, in the past decade his work has made significant contribution to the international discourse in sound art, and has been the subject of discussion in several capstone publications in the field, including Sound Art Revisited (Licht, 2019), Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (Groth & Schulze, 2020), the Oxford Handbook of Sound Art (Grant et al, 2021), and Sound Arts Now (Lane & Carlyle, 2021).

Samson Young holds a B.A. in music, philosophy and gender studies from the University Sydney, an M.Phil. in music composition from the University of Hong Kong, and a Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University. Many of his early artistic collaborators are graduates of SCM, and at the school, he teaches courses in new media art, interactive art, and sound art.