Tom Young

BACKGROUND

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1951

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, MFA - Photography, 1977

Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, BA - Photography, 1973

AWARDS

• Govenors Citation for contribution to the Arts of Massachusetts, 2009
• Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2007, 1999, 1995, 1986, 1981
• Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts/ New England Foundation for the Arts, 1995
• Finalist Award, Fellowship Program, The Artists Foundation, Massachusetts Council for the Arts, 1985
• Project Completion Award, in collaboration with Richard Lebowitz, Massachusetts Council for the Arts, 1983
• Teaching Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, 1976

COLLECTIONS

• Addison Gallery of American Art, MA
• Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
• Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
• Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
• Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
• California Museum of Photography, Silver Bullet Portfolio, Riverside, CA
• Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• Center for the study of Place, VA
• Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, OH
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
• Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
• David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
• deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
• George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, NY
• Fitchburg Museum of Art, MA
• Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT
• Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• Hallmark Museum of Photography, Turners Falls, MA
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
• Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
• Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
• Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
• Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
• Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
• Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MI
• New Britan Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
• Peabody Essex Museum, MA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
• Polaroid International Collection, Offenbach, Germany
• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
• Princeton Art museum, Princeton, NJ
• Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
• Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
• University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
• University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY
• Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS

• Our Time on Earth, GFT Books, 2020
• Backscatter: Between Here and There, GFT Books, 2016
• Timeline: Learning to See with My Eyes Closed, GFT Books, 2012
• Recycled Realities, (in collaboration with John Willis), Center for American Places, Columbia College, 2006
• PLACE, ART, AND SELF, Yi-Fu Tuan, Center for American Places, Columbia College, 2004
• Catalog: American Perspectives, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000
• Photography, a short course, page 174, Prentice Hall 1st & 2nd Editions
• Postcard publication, American Perspectives, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
• Goodbye to Apple Pie, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1992
• Photography Center Quarterly #54, How We See, Center of Photography at Woodstock, 1992
• Exhibit Catalog: New England Photographers, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA, 1992
• Exhibit Brochure: Tom Young, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, 1991
• Selections 5, The International Polaroid Collection
• Artworks: Tom Young, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1990
• Exhibit Brochure: 2 to Tango: Collaboration in Recent American Photography, I.C.P., N.Y., NY
• Exhibit Catalog: Cross Currents/Cross Country, Photographic Resource Center and Camerwork, 1988
• Exhibit Catalog: Into the Eighties: New England Photography, Keene State College, Keene, NH, 1980
• Video Production: The Two-Man Show - Marginal Way, Tom Young and Dick Lebowitz, 1984
• Portfolio: Silver Bullet Gallery, The Two-Man Show, 1983
• Open in Total Darkness, 304 Press, Plainfield, VT, 1972

EXHIBITS

• 2022 The Center for Fine Art Photography,(Un) Natural Cycles: Air, Water, Land, Fort Collins, CO
  Dab Art Co., Art in the Time of Corona, Los Angeles, CA
• 2021 Featured Artist, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
• 2020 realArt Gallery, Angoura Hills, CA
• 2019 Smith College Museum of Art, Fragile Earth, Northampton, MA
• 2016 Akron Museum of Art, Pulp, Akron, OH
  Amon Carter Museum, Focal Points, Fort Worth, TX
  Smith College Museum Art, The Lay of the Land, Northampton, MA
• 2015 1401 Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• 2014 Drury Gallery, Timeline, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
  Crocker Museum of Art, Auction, Sacramento, CA
• 2013 Jerome Liebling Gallery, Timeline, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
• 2012 111 Front Street Gallery, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, NY
  Currier Museum of Art, A New Vision: Modernist Photography, Manchester, NH
• 2011Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, L.A., CA
• 2009Eli Marsh Gallery, Timeline 09, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
  The University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
  Decordova Museum, Face to Face, Lincoln, MA
• 2008Trustman Art Gallery, Uncommon Denominator, Simmons College, Boston, MA
• 2007Arsenal Center for the Arts, In Sights, Photography by Award Winning Massachusetts Artists, Watertown, MA
  Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Recycled Realities and Other Stories, Turners Falls, MA
• 2004Drury Gallery, In Memory, Young/Shamblin, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
• 2003Smith College Museum of Art, Landscape, Northampton, MA
• 2002Photographic Resource Center, American Perspectives, Boston, MA
  Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Image: Invented, Constructed, Recycled, Rochester, NY
• 2000Tokyo Museum of Photography, American Perspectives, Tokyo, Japan
  Museum EKI, American Perspectives, Kyoto, Japan
  Takamatsu City Museum of Art, American Perspectives, Takamatsu, Japan
  Museum of Contemporary Art, American Perspectives, Sappro, Japan
• 1999Red Eye Gallery, One-Person, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• 1998Hampshire College, One-Person, Amherst, MA
• 1997Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Photo Manipulations, Framingham, MA
  Massachusetts College of Art, Auction Exhibit, Boston, MA
• 1996DeCordova Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Lincoln, MA
• 1995Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA
  Photographic Resource Center, New England Biennial, Boston, MA
• 1994The Art Complex Museum, Critics' Choice, Duxbury, MA
• 1993Ithica College, One-Person, Ithica, NY
  Marlboro College, Three Photographers, Marlboro, VT
  Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Selection 5, Polaroid International Collection, Scottsdale, AZ
• 1992Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Selections 5, Canton, NY
• 1991Decordova Museum, Goodbye to Apple Pie, Lincoln, MA
  Danforth Museum, New England Photographers, Framingham, MA
  Museum of Fine Arts, One-Person, Springfield, MA
  Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Selections 5, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Photographic Resource Center, New England Biennial, Boston, MA
• 1990Williams College Museum of Art, One-Person, Williamstown, MA
  Photokina 90, Selections 5, Cologne, Germany
  ogg Museum, One-Person, Print Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  Boston Center for the Arts, MassachusArts, Boston, MA
  North Dakota Museum of Art, Selections 4, Polaroid International Collection, Grand Forks, ND
  Bergen Museum of Art, Selections 4, Paramus, NJ
  Photofest, Selections 4, Houston, TX
• 1989Frans Hals Museum, Selections 4, Harlem, Holland
  Idea Books, Selections 4, Milan, Italy
  Fotoforum, Selections 4, Breman, Germany
  Clarence Kennedy Gallery, New Portraits, Cambridge, MA
  The Kunsthalle, Selections 4, Hamburg, Germany
  The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Selections 4, Venezuela
  International Center of Photography, NY, NY, 2 To Tango/Collaboration in Recent American Photography
• 1988The Center for the Arts, 2 to Tango, Miami, FL
  SF Camerawork Gallery, Cross Currents/Cross Country, San Francisco, CA
  Photokina 88, Selections 4, Cologne, Germany
  Bank of Boston Gallery, Cross Currents/Cross Country, Boston, MA
  Musee de l'Elysee, Selections 4, Lausanne, Switzerland
  McKilop Gallery, One-Person, Salve Regina College, Lost Child Series, Newport, RI
  Smith College Museum of Art, Ghost of a Chance, Northampton, MA
  Gallery 1, The Transformed Icon, Providence, RI
  Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
• 1987Audio-Visual Gallery, One-Person, Cat and Mouse, Andover, MA
  Photographic Resource Center, Two-Man Show, Boston, MA
  Clarence Kennnedy Gallery, Massachusetts Artist Fellows, Cambridge, MA
  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Massachusetts Artist Fellows, Boston, MA
• 1985Wistariahurst Museum, Pioneer Valley Photographers, Holyoke, MA
• 1984Zone Gallery, Two-Man Show, Springfield, MA
• 1983Silver Bullet Gallery, Two-Man Show, Providence, RI
  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Two-Man Show, Providence, RI
• 1982Danforth Museum, Bay State Photography, Framingham, MA
  Thornes Art Gallery, Artists for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze, Northampton, MA
• 1981Smith College, Altered Images, Northampton, MA
  Hamden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• 1980Into the Eighties: New England Photography, Traveling Exhibit
  Hampshire College, Photography Gallery, Amherst, MA
  Glyph Gallery, On the Wall/Off the Wall, Amherst, MA
• 1979Pennsylvania State University, Juried Exhibition, PA
  Mystic Art Association, Mystic Photo I, Mystic, CT
  Boston College, Gallery One, Fish Show, Newton, MA
• 1978UCEN Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
  Electron Movers Gallery, Private Parts, Providence, RI
• 1977Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
  Woods-Gerry Gallery, Faculty Show, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• 1976Art Institute of San Francisco, CA
• 1975Centrum Gallery, Hampshire College , Amherst, MA
  Zone V Gallery, Watertown, MA
• 1973Minds Eye Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 1972Photomontage Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

EXPERIENCE

• 1979-Professor Emeritus, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
• 2016Visiting Lecturer, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
• 2015 Artist in Residence, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
• 2006-13Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
• 2011Visiting Lecturer, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
• 2009Visiting Artist and Artist Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
• 2008Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• 2007Artist Lecture, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, T.F., MA
• 2006Artist Lecture, Braatleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
  Artist Lecture, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
• 2004Artist Lecture, Drury Art Gallery, Marlboro, VT
  Reviewer, graduating seniors in photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
• 2003Adjunct Professor of Photography, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
• 2002Visiting Artist/Reviewer, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
• 1999Visiting Artist, Lecture, Photography Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  Artist Lecture, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
• 1988Gallery Talk, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
• 1995Visiting Artist, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• 1992Gallery Talk, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
• 1991Gallery Talk, three lectures, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
  Visiting Artist/Reviewer, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
• 1989Visiting Artist, Tufts University, Medford, MA
• 1988-91Board of Directors, Arts Council of Franklin County, Greenfield, MA
• 1988Visiting Artist, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
  Gallery Talk, "Cross Currents/Cross Country", Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
• 1980-81Photography Instructor, Photographic Workshop of New England, Newfane, VT
• 1997-79Adjunct Professor, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
• 1977-78Assistant to the Chairman, Instructor, Photography Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• 1976-77Visiting Artist, "Currents in Contemporary Photography", Yale University, New Haven, CT
• 1974-75Technical Specialist in Photography and Film, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  Artist in Residence, Cummington School of the Arts, Cummington, MA
• 1973-74Supervisor, Zone V Photographers Workshop/Gallery , Watertown, MA
  Instructor, Workshop Center for Photography and Film, Weymouth, MA
• 1972-73Photographer, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA
• 1969-71Staff Photographer, Boston After Dark Newspaper, Boston, MA