complete CV here (pdf)
Born in New York City, Millicent Young received her MFA from James Madison University and two Professional Fellowship Awards from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibiting widely, her work has been recognized by curators and directors from institutions including DIA, Hirshhorn, New Museum, Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum. Young’s work received a top award at the 2005 Biennale in Florence, Italy. Her most recent solo show, “Cantos for the Anthropocene”, was at Les Yeux du Monde Gallery in Virginia. Millicent Young currently resides in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
press
"Millicent Young: Encountering the Unknown" Scott Gleeson, Peripheral Vision Press 2018
"Millicent Young:Earthly Flights of Imagination"
POSIT: a journal of art and literature, #16, 2018
"Remembering Awe" Sarah Sargent 2017
"Under the Radar: Millicent Young" Ann Landi October 2016
"Known/Not Known" exhibition catalog 2014
"Millicent Young Seeks a New Mythology" Sarah Sargent November 2013
"Millicent Young's Transformative Gift" Gerald Ross
"Millicent Young:Solid into Vapor" Deborah McLeod
Grand Rapids Art Museum - 2011 Artprize
