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Sharon Young
Dr Sharon Young is an artist and lecturer from Northern Ireland based in London. She is a lecturer of fine art at Glasgow School of Art, University of the Arts, London, and Ithaca College and Boston University. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including Tate Exchange; Liverpool// Venice, Encontros das Imagem, Braga; Goa Photo Festival; Cosmos, Arles; The Centre of Photography, Clement-Ferrond, Tate Liverpool and P3 Ambika Gallery, London, and has been the recipient of awards such as Flash Forward Magenta Awards, Canada and The International Photography Awards, New York. Her work is held in public collections such as the V&A Library and The Yale Center for British Art and Photo Ireland Foundation. She presented her research at conferences such as She Is Hysterical, UCLA, PSi 25, Calgary, Ithaca College, New York and University of Oxford and is currently involved in two research projects at University of Cambridge and University of Hanoi with University of Portsmouth. She holds a Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art: ‘Once more with feeling: A reinvention of “hysteria” using photography, performance and autofiction’.
Contact: School of Arts and Humanities (Battersea), Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN, UK.
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