b. 1993
Education
MFA candidate, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, expected 2026
BFA, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2016
Solo + Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Firmament, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI [solo]
2017 The Waiting Room, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI [two-person with Sean Heiser]
2016 Untitled, Chamber, Milwaukee, WI [solo]
Group Exhibitions
2025 Screening of “∞”, MinnAnimate, Minneapolis, MN
2025 How it Feels, Schmidt Artist Lofts, St. Paul, MN
2025 Screening of “∞”, UMN Art Student Independent Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2025 thresholds, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Fresh Works, Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
2024 37th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Grand Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
2024 Annual Juried Exhibition, 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, MN
2022 Continuum, Kenilworth Studios, Milwaukee, WI
2021 PAINT 2021, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2020 00000 GHOOST $HOW, Terminus, Milwaukee, WI
2020 Artists for Action: In Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
2020 We Might Have Been Born Yesterday… But We Stayed Up All Night, Between Two Galleries, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Crash The Gate, Things 4 Dreams, La Crosse, WI
2018 Conveyor, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Hinternational Paper, The Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
2017 The Busker Show, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Varsity 1, Lucky Cat, Milwaukee, WI
Awards + Residency
2025 Big Eyes, Bigger Feelings Award, University of Minnesota Art Student Independent Film Festival
2024 Purchase Award, 37th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA
2024 Honorable Mention, Annual Juried Exhibition [juror: Alonzo Pantoja], 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, MN
2024 Artist in Residence, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
2015 Lawrence Rathsack Scholarship, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Professional Service
2025 Visiting Artist, Century College, White Bear Lake, MN
2022 Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2019 BFA Senior Thesis Committee for Phoenix Brown, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Artist Talk with Kate Mothes and Shane Walsh, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
Bibliography
2024 “Summer 2024”, Like A Field, likeafield.com, June/July 2024.
2021 Ty Bishop. “The Studio Image Project”, friendoftheartist.com, January 10, 2021.
2020 Aidan and Kyle. “#14 - J Youngwood”, Artists We Know, February 23, 2020.
2019 Shane McAdams. “Milwaukee Visual Arts Year in Review: 2019”, Shepherd Express, December 26, 2019.
2017 Kate Mothes. “J Youngwood”, yngspc.com, February 9, 2017.