Global Performance + Sound Lab

Samson Young (b.1979, Hong Kong) works in sound, performance, video, and installation. Solo projects include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; the Hong Kong Pavillion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice; SF MOMA, San Francisco; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, Manchester; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Ars Electronica, Linz; and documenta 14: documenta radio, among others. 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. He was the founder of sound art & experimental music group CMHK, and a member of the Tomato Grey artist collective.