Resume'

Solo Exhibits

Group Exhibits

Doug Young’s background spans from Hawai’i, Iowa, New York and Germany. He grew up in the islands, went to Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; NYU in New York City, and did some graduate work at the University of Hawaii.

While in New York, in the early 70's, he was the assistant for the late realist sculptor, Duane Hanson(click for slideshow) and also helped him with a show in Koln, Germany. Doug also worked for Ivan Karp at O.K. Harris in Soho and assisted sculptor, Luis Jimenez Jr., and painters, H. N. Han, John Clem Clarke, and Elenore Mikus.

Young has done solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Some of his public works and commissions include the First Hawaiian Towers on Fort Street Mall, The Estate of James Campbell - Executive Offices in Kapolei, The Environmental Protection Agency - San Francisco, The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Security Pacific National Bank - Los Angeles & San Francisco, The Contemporary Museum, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

He received the Individual Artist Fellowship from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and, is part of several books including Artist/Hawaii 1996 Diane Dods & Joan Clarke, UH Press; The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism, Alan Gussow, Chameleon Books, and most recently, The Persis Collection of Contemporary Art, Goodale Publishing.

Doug is married to an artist-sculptress, Babs Miyano-Young and they have two daughters. He has been a full-time artist since 1973.

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Born: 1951 Honolulu, Hawaii

Education: Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, Hawaii 1969
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, B.F.A, 1973
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973
New York University, New York, N.Y., 1971-72
Assistant to Duane Hanson, New York, N.Y. & Germany 1971-72
* also worked for Elenore Mikus , Luis Jimenez, & Ivan Karp at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York.

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS

2006 "Mango Season" The Gallery at Ward Centre:(two person show with Esther Shimazu)

2006 "Family Ties": I Ching Series The Gallery at Ward Centre:(two-person show with Kay Mura)

2005 The Gallery at Ward Centre: "Water Works"

2001 Coe Collge Art Gallery-
2001 The Gallery at Ward Centre
2000 A Pacific Cafe
1999 Roy's Restaurant
1999 The Gallery at Ward Centre
1999 Alan Wong's
1998 Boom Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1998 Contemporary Museum Cafe, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1992 Stones Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii
1991/92 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1990 Golden West College Fine Arts Gallery, Huntington Beach, California
1988 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 Art Loft, Honolulu, Hawaii
1983 Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1982 Gima's, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1980 Gima's, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1979 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1978 Gima's, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1977 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1975 The Foundry, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1975 Advertiser: Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i
1974 Young-Hawaii Works of Art; Honolulu, Hawai'i
1973 Coe College Art Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

2008 Space. Space Gallery from 12.1975 to 08.1995
W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

2008 10th International Group Show, Honolulu Hale

2008 "30th Annual Commitment to Excellence"
Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Academy Arts Center at Linekona, Honolulu
Invited Artist since 1993

2007 "Dog Gone Days" The Gallery at Ward Centre

2006 "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition" The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center.

2005 "Labor and Leisure", University of Hawaii Art Gallery

2005 "Summertime", Hawai'i State Art Museum

2005 "A Collector's Journey and Legacy: Selected Works from the Sterling Collection", The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

2003 and 2004 "Japan/Hawaii Exchange Exhibition" , Nikakai 2003 Exhibit, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan; Honolulu , Hawai'i

2003 "SurfCulture", The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

2002-2003 "Enriched by Diversity:The Art of Hawai'i" Hawaii State Art Museum's Inagural Exhibition

2001 "Hawai'i Old and New" The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

1999 "Artists of Hawai'i 1999" Honolulu Academy of Arts - Award

1996-1997 "Artists/Hawaii", Contemporary Museum at The First Hawaiian Bank

1996 "Public Art"-Selections from the Collection of the City & County of Honolulu, Contemporary Museum, Hawaii

1996 1995 Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient, State Foundation on Culture & the Arts- Honolulu Academy of Arts

1995 "One Vision", SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995 "Watercolor Now", 5th Biennial Exhibit of the Watercolor USA Honor Society, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
1994 "Color & Light"(click for slideshow), Contemporary Museum's Waikiki Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
1994 "Alumni Exhibit", Coe College Art Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1995 "The Artist As Native: Reinventing Regionalism"
to 1 year traveling show. Middlebury Museum of Art, Vermont;
1993 Babcock Galleries, New York; Albany Institute of History and Art,
New York; Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Kentucky; Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993 "Watercolor USA", Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
1992 "Watercolor USA", Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
1990 "Watercolor USA 1990" Springfield Art Museum, Missouri *Award
1990 "Pacific Currents" Muckenthaler Cultural Center,Fullerton, California
1989 "Tan-Yi" The Chinese Bicentennial Celebration in Hawaii, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1989 "Watercolors, U.S.A 1989" Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
1989 "Watercolor Invitational 1989: Contemporary Currents"
Riverside Art Museum, California
1988 "20th Century Watercolors: Yesterday & Today" Long Beach
Museum of Art, California
1987 "Retrospective 1967-1987 State Foundation on Culture
& the Arts Collection", Honolulu, Hawaii
1987 "Artists of Hawaii" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1987 "Coe College Alumni Exhibition", Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1986 "Artists of Hawaii" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1986 "Art Quest" Nationally juried exhibition, (*Merit Award)
1984 "Watercolor USA" Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
1984 "Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition" Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, Taiwan
1984 "Asian-American Artists Exhibition" Seattle, Washington
1984 "37th Annual Hawaii Artists League Exhibition" Honolulu,Hawaii
1984 "Artists of Hawaii" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1984 "Space-1984: Then and Now" Space Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
1982 "Artists of Hawaii" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1981 "Landscapes" Honolulu, Hawaii (*Award)
1981 "Artists of Honolulu" Hawaii and Manila, Phillipines
1979 "First Western State Biennial Exhibition", two year
to traveling show; Denver Art Museum, Colorado
1981 National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Newport Harbor Art Museum, California
Santa Fe Festival for the Arts, New Mexico
1979 "Twentieth Century Watercolors from the Collection"
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1977 "Arta Contemporana in Hawaii" Bucharest, Rumania
1977 "Really Now" Honolulu Hale, Hawaii
1976 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1976 "Art Hawaii Showcase" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1976 "California-Hawaii Biennial 1976" Fine Arts Gallery,
San Diego, California (*Award)
1976 "Hawaii Watercolor and Serigraph Society Annual"
Honolulu, Hawaii
1975 "Art Hawaii One" Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1974 "Artists of Hawaii" traveling exhibition, City and County
of Honolulu, and Toronto, Canada

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PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS, ARTWORK IN BOOKS

Honolulu Advertiser/Star Bulletin, Aug. 16, 1998, Joan Rose
ARTWEEEK, May 7, 1988, Susan Geer
ARTWEEEK, Oct 29, 1983, Marcia Morse
Newsweek, Aug 20, 1979, Art Section review
Smithsonian, April, 1979, Bill Marvel
ARTWEEEK, Apr 7, 1979, Rod Rhodes
Visual Dialog, Fall, 1977, Roberta Loach
ARTWEEEK, July 30, 1977, Martha Spelman

Hawai'i Looking Back, 2000, Mutual Publishing
Streetcar Days in Honolulu, 2000, JBL Press
The Persis Collection of Contemporary Art, 1998, Goodale Publishing
Artist/Hawaii, 1996, Diane Dods, Joan Clarke, University of Hawai'i Press
Seeing the Invisible, Manoa, 1996, University of Hawai'i Press
Fire and Sea, 1996, Sue Cowing, University of Hawai'i Press
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism, Alan Gussow, 1993, Chameleon Books
Last Days Here, 1990, Eric Chock, Bamboo Ridge Press
Pake': Writings by Chinese in Hawaii, 1989, Bamboo Ridge Press
Expounding the Doubtful Points, 1987, Wing Tek Lum, Bamboo Ridge Press
A Place Called Chinese America, 1982, Diane Mei Lin Mark & Ginger Chih, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.

>for more details: Publications

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COLLECTIONS / COMMISSIONS

Kapolei Judiciary Building Complex
Pitlock, Kido, Aipa, and Stone
The Estate of James Campbell, Executive offices, Kapolei, Hawai'i
Irwin Daniels / Bishop Street Associates,Honolulu
City and County of Honolulu
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaii
Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco

Castle & Cooke, Honolulu
Alexander and Baldwin, Inc, Honolulu
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles
and San Francisco
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu
Pacific Resources, Inc, Honolulu
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Hawai'i State Convention Center, Honolulu

The Persis Collection

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AWARDS

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