Carey Young (born 1970, Lusaka, Zambia) makes work in a variety of forms, including video, photography, performance and communications media. She draws on a background of working in business to question and challenge multinational corporations and the strategies they employ. By doing so, she posits the artist as a potential conduit and infiltrator.

Film and Video Umbrella first worked with Carey Young in 2000 on ‘the.year.dot’ and then in 2001 on ‘Business as Usual’. This work was central to the first major touring exhibition of her work. In 2004 a subsequent commission, ‘I Believe in You’, was an internet-based project, which employed the use of text messaging. Film and Video Umbrella also published the first book on Young’s work, ‘Carey Young, Incorporated’.

Young’s work has been widely exhibited, with solo presentations at Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis; The Power Plant, Toronto; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis. She has contributed to group exhibitions and performance events at The Whitechapel Gallery, London; Modern Art Oxford; Miami Art Museum; Creative Time, New York; and the 2007 Moscow Biennale, amongst many others. She is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.