ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, originally from Alberta, now based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Charley holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art (Portland, Maine) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), where she is Regular Part-time faculty teaching drawing and printmaking.
Young’s practice combines site-based and indexical modes of making shared between printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She uses textures found within natural and built environments to record unique impressions of sites in transition. To date, her work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing Arctic ice and small-scale hand casts that record the space between clasped hands of new Canadians. A tool for connection, her work often invites participation in socially-engaged and public projects.
Charley has been an artist-in-residence at St. Michael’s Printshop (2022), The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (2017), The Arctic Circle Program (2014), The Banff Centre (2013), The Vermont Studio Centre (2013), Spark Box Studios (2013), The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (2012).
Charley’s work is in various collections including: The Canada Council Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, TD Bank Group, Telus Sky Collection and the Nova Scotia Art Bank. Her work has been exhibited at the Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China), He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax NS), SPACE Gallery (Portland, Maine), CIRCA Art Actual (Montreal, QC), Free Will North Church Project Space (Eastport, Maine), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (Halifax, NS). In 2014, Charley was included in as one of the artists in the Blouin ARTINFO's Top 30 under 30 in Canada. In 2012, she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.