PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS & PUBLICATIONS
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John Young: The History Projects
Edited by Olivier Krischer
Published by The Power Institute, The University of Sydney, April 2025
Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created 11 art series which he called ‘The History Projects’. This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.
Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
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John Young: Collector's Edition
Edition of 100, numbered and signed by the artist
Monograph and limited edition etching in Japanese cotton cloth box
Book design: Studio Round / Foundation design: Leah Boulton
Winner of the 54th APA Design Award for Best Book for an Exhibition 2006
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Carolyn Barnes and William Wright John Young Vic.: Craftsman House Thames & Hudson, 2005 257 p. ISBN: 0975768409
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Carolyn Barnes, Jacqueline Lo and Terence Maloon The Bridge and the Fruit Tree: John Young - a survey Canberra: Drill Hall Gallery, 2013 88 p. ISBN: 9780987438003 |
Brian Castro and John Young Macau Days
Melbourne: Art +Australia, 2017 185 p. ISBN: 978-0-9953925-2-6 |
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Jacqueline Lo, Maudie Palmer and Wendy Walker Passages: Brian Castro, Khai Liew, John Young Vic.: TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012 78 p. ISBN: 9780980540840 |
Aaron Seeto and Michael Reid Empathy: Khai Liew and John Young Sydney: Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, 2011 27 p. ISBN: 9780646550978 |
Christard-Georg Neubert, Kevin Rudd, H.C. Wolfgang Huber, Sylvia Dominique Volz and Alexander Ochs John Young: Bonhoeffer in Harlem Berlin: Edition St Matthäus, 2009 120 p. ISBN: 9783980994347 |
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Pamela Kember, John Clark and Alexander Ochs John Young: Drei Propositionen (Three Propositions) Berlin: Prüss & Ochs Gallery, 2003 95 p. ISBN: 0975052101 |
Brian Castro and M.A. Greenstein John Young: Pine's Edge Melbourne: Black Inc., 2001 36 p. ISBN: 186395354X |
John Clark, Peter Hutchings, Melissa Chiu and Frances Lindsay John Young: The Double Ground Paintings Sydney: Australian Art Promotions, 1995 67 p. ISBN: 064624339X |
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Graham Coulter-Smith, Christina Davidson and Graham Forsyth John Young: Silhouettes and Polychromes Melbourne: Schwartz City Publications, 1993 146 p. ISBN: 186395339X |
Keith Broadfoot and Rex Butler Objective Gesture: John Young, Selected Works 1986-87 Hong Kong: Derby Press, 1987 35 p. ISBN: 0731611764 |
Thomas Berghuis, Claire Hielscher and Katie de Tilly John Young Zerunge Hong Kong: 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, 2012 60 p. ISBN: 9789881689214
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CATALOGUES
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John Young: Diaspora, Psyche Bunjil Place Gallery 2021
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The New Wolf of Rome Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane 2012
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Safety Zone Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Victoria 2014
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Bonhoeffer in Harlem Eloserkirche Bamberg, Germany 2013
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Open Monument City of Ballarat, Victoria 2015
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Abstract Paintings 2015
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Eternal Transformation Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane 2015
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Modernity's End: Half the Sky Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby 2016
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Safety Zone University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane 2011
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Safety Zone Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2010 |
Strachan's Room Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane 2009 |
Walden in China / Open World Nanjing Library Gallery, Nanjing 2007 |
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Naïve and Sentimental Paintings Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2007 |
Detours and Variations Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2006 |
The Persian Paintings Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2004 |
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John Young: Unstable Cultures Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2002 |
Awful Backlash Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 2000 |
John Young Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1998 |
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John Young Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1996 |
John Young Selected Works Cameleon Gallery Publications, Hobart 1989 |
John Young Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 1985 |
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