Mina Young

Mina creates immersive dramatic installations that incorporate mediums of video, photography, performance, drawing, craft, collecting, ephemera and collage. More recently she has started adding sculpture and painting into her practice.

She draws heavily upon autobiographical experiences growing up as the daughter of psychiatrist. Her family was part of a community of resident doctors who lived on site at one of Australia’s oldest running Psychiatric hospitals, in Brisbane, for her first fifteen years through the 70’s and 80’s.

Receiving her Undergraduate degree in Drawing at the VCA, Mina won the Contemporary Drawing Prize. She then received First Class Honours in Drawing -VCA, and completed her Masters of Fine Art VCA, supported by an Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship. She is presently a PhD Candidate at The University of Melbourne VCA_MCM in her final year with the assistance of a Graduate Research Scholarship.

Mina has exhibited in Australia and internationally and is represented in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, art prizes and travelling scholarships. She has had many solo shows and been in numerous group exhibitions and prizes and has been featured in a variety of publications. She has also created largescale public artworks: public art billboards in Australia and Hong Kong.