Bradley Young’s work often confronts the political, social and environmental realities of our time, occasionally with satire. His pieces combine captured, constructed and ready-made elements, such as videos and photographs, both stock and found. Writing and directing short films is also part of Young's practice, one starring Katie Holmes.

 

On social, Young's work earned 14 million video views, 180 million impressions, in 36 months. His work has attracted the attention and appreciation of the great and the good, including Judd Apatow, Kara Swisher, Adam McKay, Patricia Arquette, and Cher.

 

Young's practice has been shaped by over fifteen years immersed in visual

culture at the highest level, working closely with icons including Kara Walker,

Beyoncé, Jenny Holzer, Brad Pitt, Barack Obama, Louise Bourgeois and Scarlett Johansson, legendary editors including Tina Brown (Vanity Fair, The New Yorker) and Ingrid Sischy (Interview, Artforum) and alongside storied

multidisciplinary artists and designers Tom Ford, Inez & Vinoodh, and Karl

Lagerfeld. Young also served as Visuals Director at GQ U.S. under design legend Fred Woodward. That foundation continues to inform his work today.

 

You Are Legend is Young's current art initiative: a global, non-profit cultural

intervention. The project centers on large-scale projections of iconic figures

onto polar icebergs. The memory of their unexpected loss becomes a stark

metaphor, we are in danger of crossing climate tipping points that even the

most advanced models and data cannot predict.

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Young is Australian/American.