Andrew Young

Andrew Young was born in 1962 in Mt. Kisco, New York. He studied biology and art history at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.A. in 1987 and election to Phi Beta Kappa, before completing an M.F.A. in painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990. A secondary gallery source lists the MFA year as 1989, while the artist's own site and resume both state 1990. His paintings, many executed in egg tempera on wood panel, and his mixed-media collages draw on that dual background in science and art, with a recurring interest in natural history and landscape imagery. He is based in the Chicago area and lives and works in Brookfield, Illinois.

Young's own biography states that his paintings have been covered since 1989 in national outlets including the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, ARTnews, Artforum, and Art in America, though specific reviews and direct quotations were not independently located for this profile. Evidence of institutional interest comes from museum acquisitions the artist's own biography reports at the McNay Art Museum, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Illinois State Museum; these acquisitions are self-reported and have not been independently corroborated for this profile, and the Elmhurst Art Museum included his work in a 2008 show curated by Melissa Dahlquist. Recurring solo venues, including the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum at the Chicago Academy of Sciences, point to consistent interest in the intersection of his biology training and his painting practice.

No confirmed public auction record for Andrew Young, the American painter and collagist born in 1962, was located in research as of July 2026. His name is shared with a historical British painter, Andrew Young, active around 1854 to 1925, whose work has appeared at Sotheby's; that auction history belongs to the earlier painter and should not be attributed to the contemporary artist profiled here. His market to date is primarily a gallery market, built through Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago and Alpha Gallery in Boston, supplemented by works sold through the John Raimondi Gallery.

Andrew Young is a common name, and collectors should take care not to confuse this artist with the civil rights leader and diplomat Andrew Young, born 1932, the historical British painter Andrew Young, active 1854 to 1925, two Scottish poets of the same name, or contemporary namesakes including Andrew W. Young and the stained-glass artist Andrew Cary Young. There is no catalogue raisonne for this artist, so provenance should be confirmed through Zolla/Lieberman Gallery or Alpha Gallery, his current dealers. Because no public auction record was confirmed for this artist, collectors have no secondary-market benchmark to rely on, and pricing should be referenced against current gallery offerings rather than any auction index.