EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California | 2010
Post Baccalaureate Certificate | San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco, California | 2008
Bachelor of Arts | Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio | 2006
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Pegi’s Garden | Bryant Street Gallery | Palo Alto, California | 2022
This Land | Monte Vista Projects | Los Angeles, California | 2017
Jean on Jean | Ace Hotel, Palm Springs, California | 2016
Vestiges | Campfire Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2015
There’s A Shape In These Hills I Know | Subliminal Projects | Los Angeles, California | 2014
Visions | Water McBeer | San Francisco, California | 2014
I Remember it in Pieces | Walrus | Oakland, California | 2014
Letters Home | Michael Rosenthal Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2012
Thank You For Listening | Vera Meat | New York City, New York | 2011
You Just Live With It | Michael Rosenthal Gallery |San Francisco, California | 2011
Working | Muave? Office of Exhibition | Berkeley, California | 2011
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Passage | Discount Mirrors Gallery | Los Angeles, California | 2023 Petrichor | Marrow Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2023 Pyramid Scheme | Bass and Reiner | San Francisco, California | 2023 Living Things: Artists and their Objects of Affection | San Francisco Arts Education Project | San Francisco, California | 2022 -2023 Heat Maps | Eleanor Harwood Gallery | San Francisco, CA | 2022 Friends and Family | Hashimoto Contemporary | San Francisco, California | 2022 Flower Shop | Smoke The Moon | Santa Fe, NM | 2022
Good Riddance | Marrow Gallery | San Francisco, CA | 2020
Art Auction 2020 | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2020
(Online) Artful Harvest 2020 | Djerassi Resident Artist Program | Woodside, California | 2020
(Online) Beyond Words: In Support of Black-led Organizations Fighting for Social Justice and Equity | CULT
Aimee Friberg Exhibitions | San Francisco, California | 2020
Being There: Landscape, Memory, and Monument | Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery, Biola University | La Mirada, California | 2017
Gathering: A Venison Magazine Retrospective | Abrams Claghorn Gallery | Albany, California | 2017
Art Auction 2016 | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2016
I Look For Clues In Your Dreams | Berkeley Art Center | Berkeley, California | 2016
Parking Lot Art Fair | Fort Mason Center | San Francisco, California | 2016
Stitch Modern | Piedmont Center for the Arts | Piedmont, California | 2016
Indigo Mind: Celebrating the Works of Oliver Sacks | StoreFrontLab | San Francisco, California | 2015
Art Auction 2015 | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2015
Resonate | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2015
Collect! Exhibition and Art Auction | Berkeley Art Center | Berkeley, California | 2015
Botanica: All Things Plant Life | Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center for the Arts | Walnut Creek, California | 2015
Character Profile | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2013
Radius | Horvitz Hall Gallery, Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio | 2013
ArtPadSF Headquarters | San Francisco California | 2013
Colpa | We Are Will Brown | San Francisco, California | 2013
Dis/Order: Juried Annual 2013 | Pro Arts Gallery | Oakland, California | 2013
By The Skin of Our Teeth: An Exhibition of Alumni Work | Diego Rivera Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2012
Kin | The Performance Art Institute | San Francisco, California | 2012
Taste | Root Division | San Francisco, California | 2012
Out to Lunch | Wire and Nail Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2011
In Brief: A Private Study | Adobe Books Backroom Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2011
ArtPadSF | Robert Berman/E6 Gallery | San Francisco California | 2011
Say Something! | Robert Berman/ E6 Gallery | San Francisco, California | 2011
Vernissage 2010 MFA Exhibition | Herbst Pavilion | San Francisco, California | 2010
COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
Alocasia and Urn, 2022 | Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection | 2022 Two Apart, 2015 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection | 2016
Sky Orb// Wild Blue Yonder, 2016 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection | 2016
Reimagining Worlds II, 2014 | MediaMath Corporate Art Collection | 2016
Album Cover Art | Pegi Young | Lonely In A Crowded Room | 2014
Film Title Graphic for Neil Young Journeys | 2010
Album Art | Pegi Young | Foul Deeds | 2009
Painted Piano | Neil Young | Continental tour | 2006
DVD Cover Art | Neil Young | Living With War | 2006
Album Cover Art | Neil Young | Silver and Gold | 2000
T-shirt Design | Neil Young | Friends and Relatives tour | 2000
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
SECA Art Award Nominee | San Francisco, California | 2012
Djerassi Resident Artist Program | Woodside California | 2012
Montana Artist Refuge | Basin Montana | 2011
CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
Sheryl Nonnenberg | Artist Amber Jean Young celebrates mother Pegi Young’s life with a new series of paintings | Palo Alto Weekly | April 21, 2022 Heather Zimmerman | Pegi’s Garden exhibit offers a colorful, personal tribute | Palo Alto Weekly | March 17,2022 Glen Helfand | “JeansWest” | Ace Hotel Blog | October 6, 2016
The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012 – 2016 Catalog
Lawrence Gipe | “The West as Metaphysical Muse” @ the Berkeley Art Center | SquareCylinder.com | June 12, 2016
“Vibrations of Northern California emanate from Berkeley Art Center” | Berkeley Times | July 7, 2016
Kimberly Chun | “Shining takes on Golden State” | San Francisco Chronicle | June 9, 2016
Sarah Burk | “In ‘I Look For Clues in Your Dreams’ at Berkeley Art Center, Artists Rethink California Landscapes” | East Bay Express | May 25, 2016
Arianne Keegan | “Interview with Artist Amber Jean Young” | She/Folk.com | April 2016
Helen Adams | “Amber Jean Young” | TextileCurator.com | April 2016
“I Look For Clues In Your Dreams” | Gia On The Move | March 4, 2016
Amber Imrie-Situnayake | “Amber Jean Young” | VenisonMagazine.com | December 2015
Alyson Camus | “Amber Jean Young’s Art Exhibition at Subliminal Projects” | RockNYCLiveAndRecorded.com | October 2014
Bojan Maric |“Worldmaking” | WideWalls.ch | October 2014
Liz Goldner | “Amber Jean Young” | ArtScene | October 2014
Little Paper Planes Blog | “Amber Jean Young” | blog.littlepaperplanes.com | September 2013
Exte Blog | “Studio Time” | exteblog.com | March 2013
Uhelszki, Jaan | “He’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” | UncutMagazine.com | August 2012
Pattern Pulp | “Coping Mechanisms for a Creative Heart” | PatternPulp.com | July 2012
Artist At Large | “Amber Jean Young At Michael Rosenthal” | June 2012
Bamberger, Alan | ”Sandra Lee – Art People – Varnish Fine Art- Michael Rosenthal – Art Zone 461” | ArtBusiness.com | June, 2012
Paul “Lobster” Wells. “The Kids Are Alright – Reflections on Amber Jean Young’s Art Exhibition” | BamMagazine.com | June 2012
SF Art Enthusiast | “Photo Feature: Amber Jean Young, ‘Letters Home’ at Michael Rosenthal Gallery” | SFArtEnthusiast.com | June 2012
Bamberger, Alan | “Fifty24SF-Michael Rosenthal-Adobe Backroom-Galeria de la Raza-Driftwood Salon” | ArtBusiness.com | November 2011
JD Beltran | “Why Not” | SFGate.com | May 2010
MusiCares | Neil Young Person of the Year Catalog | 2010