Biography
Doug Young’s background spans from Hawai’i, Iowa, New York and Germany. He grew up in the islands, received his BFA from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; attended NYU in New York City, worked for Duane Hanson in Soho and Koln, and did some graduate work at the University of Hawaii.
In New York of the early 1970‘s, he was the assistant for the late realist sculptor, Duane Hanson, 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 Eleanore Mikus.
As a painter, he has done solo and group exhibitions of his photorealistic watercolors nationally and internationally. He was affiliated with Space in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years and currently shows his work at a cooperative gallery in Honolulu.
He is one of the first recipients of the Individual Artist Fellowship Award (1995) from the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts which recently awarded him several large public art glass commissions that travels him back in Germany for fabrication.
Doug is married to the artist/sculptress/jeweler, Babs Miyano-Young and they have two college aged daughters. He is active in the cooperative gallery, surfing, water sports and bowhunting.
He has been a full-time artist since 1973 focusing on contemporary Hawai'i imagery.
