PRESS • 2026
Beauty as a
public act.
Austin Young is a contemporary artist whose work transforms existing architecture into immersive environments through photography, printed surfaces, light, and color. Working across museums, churches, galleries, and public spaces, his site-specific installations respond to the history, architecture, and cultural narratives of each place, creating places for contemplation, shared experience, and human connection.
CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE • ROME
SELECTED CRITICAL RECEPTION
“With Austin Young, beauty blossoms within exhibition spaces, becoming an act of vision and resistance.”
- IL MESSAGGERO
“Austin Young transforms color into a force that moves through life, the body, and perception itself.”
- ART FRAME
“The eccentric, vibrant, and original Austin Young.”
- ARTRIBUNE
“Young invites the viewer to question how we perceive and represent the environment, challenging traditional categories.”
- ARTRIBUNE
THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE NEW YORKER • ARTNEWS • NPR • ART IN AMERICA • V&A • AD ITALIA • ARTRIBUNE
RECENT PRESS (2024 -2026)
ART FRAME · NOVEMBER 21, 2025
Inside Love Calls Color at Fondazione D’ARC: A Prism on Contemporary Art ↗
Young’s Horror Vacui transforms color into an expressive language of identity, spirituality, and queer imagination.
ARTRIBUNE · NOVEMBER 17, 2024
A Permanent Installation in a Historic Cosenza Church ↗
La Visione di Pietro transforms sacred architecture through vivid imagery, color, light, and allegory.
Austin Young
MASH INDIA · AUGUST 24, 2024
Austin Young in Conversation with Shalini Passi ↗
A wide-ranging conversation about portraiture, collaboration, queer visibility, beauty, and Young’s evolving artistic practice.
ARTRIBUNE · APRIL 9, 2024
Austin Young Brings the Style of Fallen Fruit to Venice for the Biennale ↗
An immersive portrait of Venice exploring its ancestral relationship with the Adriatic and the pressures of mass tourism.
AD ITALIA · MAY 7, 2024
What to See in Venice During the 2024 Art Biennale ↗
A curated guide to the Biennale’s essential exhibitions, featuring Austin Young’s Marriage of the Sea.
MEER · MAY 26, 2026
In the Breath of Nature at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
A look at Young’s vivid, dreamlike installation and its encounter with Renaissance architecture.
ARTRIBUNE · NOVEMBER 17, 2024
A Permanent Installation in a Historic Cosenza Church ↗
Young’s La Visione di Pietro reimagines the dome of Sant’Aniello Abate through an exuberant contemporary intervention.
ART FRAME · NOVEMBER 21, 2025
Inside Love Calls Color at Fondazione D’ARC: A Prism on Contemporary Art ↗
Young’s site-specific installation positions color as a force moving through identity, culture, and perception.
ARTUU · OCTOBER 3, 2025
“I Am an Activist for Beauty”: Austin Young on His Lush Gardens ↗
An intimate conversation connecting Temple of Flowers and Beauty! to Young’s belief in beauty as an emotional and political force.
LA REPUBBLICA · FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Flowers in a Thousand Colors: An Exhibition Scented with Jasmine and Orange Blossom ↗
Young’s floral intervention creates a contemporary hortus conclusus at the heart of the Chiostro del Bramante.
CORRIERE DELLA SERA · MAY 20, 2025
Flowers Between Fragrance and Digital Gardens ↗
Young’s installation transforms the Renaissance cloister into an immersive earthly paradise.
ARTRIBUNE · APRIL 9, 2024
Austin Young Brings the Style of Fallen Fruit to Venice for the Biennale ↗
Marriage of the Sea envelops Palazzo Cesari Marchesi in a layered allegory of Venice, beauty, ecology, and tourism.
MY MODERN MET · APRIL 2, 2025
Immersive Exhibition Explores the Timeless Beauty of Flowers Across Five Centuries of Art ↗
Temple of Flowers joins an international conversation spanning Jan Brueghel, William Morris, Ai Weiwei, and contemporary art.
FLASH ART ITALIA · 2024
Marriage of the Sea
Young’s immersive installation reframes Venice’s relationship with the Adriatic through archival imagery, allegory, and saturated color.
IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE · FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Spring Has Already Arrived at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
A review of Flowers highlighting Young’s radiant floral intervention and its vision of a contemporary paradise.
JULIET ART MAGAZINE · APRIL 15, 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
Young’s site-specific installation brings a vivid, imaginative garden into dialogue with Bramante’s Renaissance architecture.
MASH INDIA · AUGUST 24, 2024
Austin Young in Conversation with Shalini Passi ↗
Young discusses portraiture, participation, collaboration, and his desire to open doorways into other possible worlds.
David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit
JULIET ART MAGAZINE · APRIL 15, 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
A critical examination of botanical imagery, ecology, and technology featuring Austin Young and Fallen Fruit’s Temple of Flowers.
STIRWORLD · SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
LA-Based Collective Fallen Fruit Envisions Cities as Communal Gardens ↗
David Allen Burns and Austin Young discuss fruit, public space, museum archives, and their vision of cities built around generosity.
ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · SPRING 2022
The Subversive Beauty of Fallen Fruit ↗
A study of how Fallen Fruit uses beauty, gleaning, and public participation to examine community, ecology, colonialism, and belonging.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM · 2019
Fallen Fruit at the V&A ↗
Burns and Young transform the museum’s botanical collections and horticultural history into a vibrant portrait of shared culture.
ARTRIBUNE · DECEMBER 12, 2021
Los Angelitos: Fallen Fruit’s New Installation for the Vallarta Botanical Garden ↗
A site-responsive botanical installation celebrating local ecology, cultural memory, and the symbolic power of plants.
V&A BLOG AND VIDEO · 2019
Fallen Fruit at the V&A ↗
The artists draw upon the V&A’s collections and the site’s former orchards to create a distinctive “fruity” portrait of the museum.
ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · SPRING 2022
The Subversive Beauty of Fallen Fruit ↗
Fallen Fruit’s seductive visual language opens broader conversations about public resources, social history, ecology, and collective life.
ARTRIBUNE · DECEMBER 12, 2021
Los Angelitos: Fallen Fruit’s New Installation for the Vallarta Botanical Garden ↗
The duo transforms the Mexican botanical garden through imagery grounded in biodiversity, migration, and local history.
Press Archive ↗
AUSTIN YOUNG
A selection of reviews, interviews, and features from newspapers, magazines, museums, and cultural institutions documenting the work of Austin Young.
ARTFRAME · NOVEMBER 21, 2025
Inside Love Calls Color at Fondazione D’ARC: A Prism on Contemporary Art ↗
Young’s Horror Vacui transforms color into an expressive language of identity, spirituality, and queer imagination.
JULIET · APRIL 15, 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
Young’s site-specific installation brings a vivid, imaginative garden into dialogue with Bramante’s Renaissance architecture.
AD ITALIA · MAY 7, 2024
What to See in Venice During the 2024 Art Biennale ↗
A curated guide to the Biennale’s essential exhibitions, featuring Austin Young’s Marriage of the Sea.
IL MESSAGGERO · OCTOBER 7, 2025
With Austin Young, Beauty Blossoms in the Exhibition Spaces of Mucciaccia Gallery Project ↗
Beauty! transforms the gallery into a visionary garden where flowers become symbols of perception, transformation, and resistance.
ELLE DECOR ITALIA · FEBRUARY 2023
Austin Young and David Allen Burns at Accademia Carrara
A print feature documenting Fallen Fruit’s immersive Sacred Conversations installation in Bergamo.
IL MESSAGGERO · 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence, Art Blossoms in the Heart of Rome
A survey of the Chiostro del Bramante exhibition featuring Young’s immersive Temple of Flowers.
ARTRIBUNE · NOVEMBER 17, 2024
A Permanent Installation in a Historic Cosenza Church ↗
La Visione di Pietro transforms sacred architecture through vivid imagery, color, light, and allegory.
ARTRIBUNE · APRIL 9, 2024
Austin Young Brings the Style of Fallen Fruit to Venice for the Biennale ↗
Marriage of the Sea explores Venice’s ancestral relationship with the Adriatic and the pressures of mass tourism.
OUT MAGAZINE · JANUARY 24, 2018
L.A.’s Round Hole Square Peg Art Show Is a Beacon of Queer Artistry ↗
A celebration of queer photography featuring Young among the artists redefining visibility, identity, and representation.
LA WEEKLY · DECEMBER 2010
Tranimal: 2010’s Top 10 Fashion Trends in L.A. ↗
Young’s radical Tranimal aesthetic is recognized as one of Los Angeles’s defining fashion and subcultural movements.
LA REPUBBLICA · FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Flowers in a Thousand Colors: An Exhibition Scented with Jasmine and Orange Blossom ↗
Young’s floral intervention creates a contemporary hortus conclusus at the heart of the Chiostro del Bramante.
CORRIERE DELLA SERA · MAY 20, 2025
Flowers Between Fragrance and Digital Gardens ↗
Young’s installation transforms the Renaissance cloister into an immersive earthly paradise.
MY MODERN MET · APRIL 2, 2025
Immersive Exhibition Explores the Timeless Beauty of Flowers Across Five Centuries of Art ↗
Temple of Flowers joins an international conversation spanning Jan Brueghel, William Morris, Ai Weiwei, and contemporary art.
ARTUU · OCTOBER 3, 2025
“I Am an Activist for Beauty”: Austin Young on His Lush Gardens ↗
An intimate conversation connecting Temple of Flowers and Beauty! to Young’s belief in beauty as an emotional and political force.
FLASH ART ITALIA · 2024
Marriage of the Sea
Young’s immersive installation reframes Venice’s relationship with the Adriatic through archival imagery, allegory, and saturated color.
IL GIORNALE DELL’ARTE · FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Spring Has Already Arrived at the Chiostro del Bramante ↗
A review of Flowers highlighting Young’s radiant floral intervention and its vision of a contemporary paradise.
EXIBART DOMUS · SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
Austin Young—Beauty! ↗
An exhibition profile of Young’s site-specific transformation of Mucciaccia Gallery Project into a lush, symbolic garden.
Interviews
MASH INDIA · AUGUST 24, 2024
Austin Young in Conversation with Shalini Passi ↗
A wide-ranging conversation about portraiture, collaboration, queer visibility, beauty, and Young’s evolving artistic practice.
NEVER APART
Artist Visits L.A.: Austin Young ↗
A studio visit exploring Young’s career, creative influences, portraiture, and desire to make beautiful things.
OUT MAGAZINE · JULY 24, 2015
Amos Mac: Trans Heartthrob ↗
A profile of photographer and publisher Amos Mac examining queer image-making, trans visibility, and independent publishing.
FRONTIERS MAGAZINE
Jackie Beat
A conversation with the legendary drag performer, comedian, writer, and longtime Austin Young collaborator.
THE PLANT · 2013
Welcome to the Jungle: Plant Life in L.A.
Anh Do and DeQuincy Schwarzmann explore Los Angeles plant culture, photographed by Daniel Trese for “Banana Plant,” Issue 5.
Television & Media
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS · 2014
The Birthday Witch ↗
Austin Young appears as himself in the fourth-season episode centered on Carlton Gebbia’s gothic birthday celebration.
BEHIND THE TART
Austin Young
A media appearance exploring Young’s portrait practice, creative process, and relationships with influential performers.
GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS
Austin Young—Television Credits ↗
Young appears as himself in the reality series documenting the Simmons family’s professional and personal lives.
Museum & Institutional Publications
CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE · 2025–2026
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence ↗
The institutional exhibition publication presents Young’s Temple of Flowers as a site-specific transformation of the Renaissance cloister.
MUCCIACCIA GALLERY · 2025–2026
Beauty!—A Solo Exhibition by Austin Young ↗
The gallery’s official exhibition publication documents Young’s immersive installation, individual works, and accompanying catalogue.
DAVID ALLEN BURNS AND AUSTIN YOUNG / FALLEN FRUIT
A selection of reviews, interviews, and features from newspapers, magazines, museums, and cultural institutions documenting the work of David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit.
ARTERRITORY · MAY 26, 2020
What Artists Are Doing Now: Contemporary Art Collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles ↗
David Allen Burns and Austin Young discuss their practice, public art, and creative work during the pandemic.
JULIET · APRIL 15, 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence at Chiostro del Bramante, Rome ↗
A review of the exhibition and its immersive floral installation, Temple of Flowers.
ELLE ITALIA · FEBRUARY 2023
Sacred Conversations at Accademia Carrara
A print feature documenting Burns and Young’s permanent installation in Bergamo.
ARTRIBUNE · DECEMBER 25, 2022
Accademia Carrara Reopens with a Large Wallpaper by Fallen Fruit ↗
Sacred Conversations transforms the museum through imagery drawn from art history, nature, and the local landscape.
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER
ARTNEWS · WINTER 2019
Los Angeles Now ↗
Fallen Fruit appears in ARTnews’s special issue devoted to contemporary art in Los Angeles.
ARTRIBUNE · DECEMBER 12, 2021
The New Fallen Fruit Installation for Vallarta Botanical Garden in Mexico ↗
Los Angelitos combines photography, botanical imagery, and public participation in Puerto Vallarta.
IL MESSAGGERO · 2022
“Crazy” at Chiostro del Bramante: The Beauty of Madness According to 21 Artists
The exhibition includes LOVE TRAP, an immersive installation by David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit.
ARTNEWS · WINTER 2019
Los Angeles Now: Cover ↗
Fallen Fruit is featured in ARTnews’s special issue surveying the Los Angeles art world.
ARTNEWS · JANUARY 9, 2019
15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch ↗
Fallen Fruit is recognized among fifteen artists shaping contemporary art in Los Angeles.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE · NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Consumed ↗
A feature examining how contemporary artists use food as material, metaphor, and social practice.
THE NEW YORK TIMES · JUNE 22, 2018
A City at the Crossroads Examines Migration, Through Art ↗
Fallen Fruit’s work at Manifesta 12 explores migration, ecology, and Palermo’s layered cultural history.
THE NEW YORK TIMES · MAY 11, 2013
Tasty, and Subversive, Too ↗
A major feature on Fallen Fruit’s transformation of urban landscapes through public fruit trees and collective action.
NPR · JUNE 13, 2017
This Art Group Installs Pick-Your-Own-Fruit Parks Around Los Angeles ↗
Fallen Fruit turns overlooked public land into shared orchards and community resources.
LOS ANGELES TIMES · FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Fallen Fruit Teams with LACMA ↗
The collective collaborates with LACMA on projects connecting food, art, and public participation.
ART IN AMERICA · 2009
Fallen Fruit ↗
A review of Fallen Fruit’s socially engaged practice and its exploration of public and private space.
ARTFORUM · 2013
Fallen Fruit of Atlanta ↗
Cinqué Hicks reviews an installation shaped by Atlanta’s histories, communities, archives, and symbolic relationship with the peach.
LOS ANGELES TIMES · JULY 2009
Fallen Fruit Reviewed by Christopher Knight ↗
Christopher Knight examines Fallen Fruit’s exhibitions at LACE and Another Year in L.A.
NPR · JUNE 13, 2017
This Art Group Installs Pick-Your-Own-Fruit Parks Around Los Angeles ↗
A report on the collective’s expanding network of publicly accessible fruit parks.
STIRWORLD · SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
LA-Based Collective Fallen Fruit Envisions Cities as Communal Gardens ↗
A feature on Fallen Fruit’s vision of cities transformed through generosity, participation, and shared abundance.
ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · SPRING 2022
The Subversive Beauty of Fallen Fruit ↗
Burns and Young discuss beauty, public space, ecology, and the political possibilities of sharing.
BRISBANE TIMES
THE NEW YORKER · MARCH 12, 2012
Eat a Free Peach: Mapping “Public Fruit” ↗
Dana Goodyear explores Fallen Fruit’s public-fruit maps and their influence on urban foraging, public space, and food culture.
HYPERALLERGIC · JANUARY 26, 2016
Planting an Endless Fruit Orchard That Could Branch Around the World ↗
The Endless Orchard imagines a worldwide network of publicly accessible fruit trees planted and mapped by communities.
DEZEEN
ARTILLERY MAGAZINE · SEPTEMBER 2009
Fallen Fruit: Art with Some Meat to It ↗
Tucker Neel considers Fallen Fruit’s combination of urban foraging, social engagement, and institutional critique.
Interviews
ARTERRITORY · MAY 26, 2020
What Artists Are Doing Now ↗
An interview with David Allen Burns and Austin Young about collaboration, public space, and making art during a period of isolation.
21C MUSEUM HOTELS · 2023
The Way Out West ↗
Burns and Young discuss a site-specific installation created from the histories, plants, artifacts, and visual culture of St. Louis.
Television & Media
THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW · MARCH 3, 2022
Artists Create Huge Public Orchard by Mapping Where Fruit Is Available to Pick in L.A. ↗
Burns and Young introduce Fallen Fruit’s public-fruit maps, community orchards, and mission to make fresh food accessible.
HBO MAX · MAY 23, 2023
What Am I Eating? with Zooey Deschanel: “Down to Fruit?” ↗
Fallen Fruit appears in an episode examining how fruit is grown, distributed, selected, and shared.
VICE · AUGUST 23, 2022
Turning Wasted Food into Art ↗
VICE follows Fallen Fruit’s transformation of overlooked food and urban resources into collaborative works of art.
Museum & Institutional Publications
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM · 2019
Fallen Fruit at the V&A ↗
The V&A documents Fallen Fruit’s bespoke wallpaper, museum fruit trail, and public-fruit maps for FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA · 2020
Fallen Fruit: Natural History ↗
An immersive NGV Triennial installation connects Australian flora, museum collections, colonial history, race, class, gender, and ecology.
CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE · 2022
LOVE TRAP — CRAZY: La follia nell’arte contemporanea
An immersive installation transforms the Sala delle Sibille through saturated imagery, fabric, and architectural intervention.
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART · SEPTEMBER 27, 2024–JANUARY 31, 2030
The Power of Pollinators (And Other Living Things) ↗
A permanent immersive commission celebrates Great Basin flora, fauna, pollinators, generosity, and community.
MUCCIACCIA GALLERY
21C MUSEUM HOTEL LOUISVILLE
Fallen Fruit: The Practices of Everyday Life ↗
A permanent site-specific installation explores Louisville’s public and private histories through photographs, texts, archives, and found objects.
Press Archive
15 Minutes: Austin Young of Fallen Fruit, the Art Collective Behind the Garden-as-Art Installation at the Nevada Museum of Art
Mark Earnest · Reno News & Review · Jun 12, 2026
Nel respiro della natura al Chiostro del Bramante
Gustavo Marco Cipolla · Meer · May 26, 2026
Steve Wilson Studio Visit with Austin Young
Austin Young Studio · Apr 24, 2026
Libby Talks About Love Trap
Austin Young Studio · Apr 21, 2026
Conversations with Austin Young
Margaret Cho, Love Connie and Nadya Ginsburg · Austin Young Studio · Jan 1, 2026
Dentro Amore chiama colore alla Fondazione D’ARC: un prisma sull’arte contemporanea
Alessandro Mancini · Art Frame · Nov 21, 2025
Transforming Communities Through Art and Beauty
Drica Lobo · Decoding the Flow · Nov 5, 2025
Austin Young Brings “Beauty!” to Rome: The New Exhibition at Mucciaccia Gallery Project
Editorial Staff · Finestre sull’Arte · Oct 8, 2025
Con Austin Young la bellezza sboccia negli spazi espositivi di Mucciaccia Gallery Project
Gustavo Marco Cipolla · Il Messaggero · Oct 7, 2025
Beauty! – Austin Young porta la sua visione floreale alla Mucciaccia Gallery Project di Roma
Editorial Staff · Tela Narrante · Oct 7, 2025
BEAUTY! A Solo Exhibition by Austin Young
Gianluca Piroli · Arsfolio · Sep 2, 2025
Flowers at Chiostro del Bramante — Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence
THURSD. · Thursd · Jul 16, 2025
“Flowers”: rinascimento e intelligenza artificiale
Matilde Trippanera · RadioSapienza · Jun 23, 2025
Flowers: From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence at Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Sara Buoso · Juliet Art Magazine · Apr 15, 2025
Immersive Exhibition Explores Timeless Beauty of Flowers Across Five Centuries of Art
Jessica Stewart · My Modern Met · Apr 2, 2025
Flowers Transforms the Chiostro del Bramante into a Paradise on Earth
Collater.al Contributors · Collater.al · 2025
Temple of Flowers / Tempio di Fiori
Chiostro del Bramante · Film · 2025
The Dream of Andromeda
Austin Young · Fallani Venezia · Nov 25, 2024
L’artista Austin Young realizza un’installazione permanente in una chiesa di Cosenza
Ludovica Palmieri · Artribune · Nov 17, 2024
Marriage of the Sea
Austin Young / Fallen Fruit · Film · Sep 26, 2024
Austin Young in Conversation with Shalini Passi
Shalini Passi · MASH India · Aug 24, 2024
L’affascinante racconto visivo di Austin Young / Fallen Fruit del legame tra Venezia e l’Adriatico
Raffaele Quattrone · Espoarte · Jun 12, 2024
Cosa vedere a Venezia durante la Biennale d’Arte 2024
Elena Dallorso, Valentina Raggi, Giada Storelli and Alessandra Pellegrino · AD Italia · May 7, 2024
Austin Young porta lo stile dei Fallen Fruit a Venezia per la Biennale
Livia Montagnoli · Artribune · Apr 9, 2024
Fallen Fruit: Monument to Sharing — Part I
Austin Young and David Allen Burns · Film · Jun 19, 2023
Turning Wasted Food Into Art
VICE · Aug 23, 2022
The Subversive Beauty of Fallen Fruit
Shirley Alexandra Watts · Issues in Science and Technology · Spring 2022
“Crazy” al Chiostro del Bramante, il bello della pazzia secondo 21 artisti
Il Messaggero · 2022
Fallen Fruit on The Kelly Clarkson Show
Austin Young and David Allen Burns · The Kelly Clarkson Show · 2022
Los Angelitos, la nuova installazione dei Fallen Fruit per i Vallarta Botanical Gardens in Messico
Artribune · Dec 12, 2021
What Artists Are Doing Now: Contemporary Art Collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles
Arterritory · May 26, 2020
Natural History
David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit · NGV Triennial · 2020
Fallen Fruit’s Bespoke Wallpaper at the V&A
Victoria and Albert Museum · Film · Jun 21, 2019
Fallen Fruit at the V&A
Victoria and Albert Museum · 2019
15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch
Maximilíano Durón and Alex Greenberger · ARTnews · Jan 9, 2019
Los Angeles Now
ARTnews · Winter 2019
These Artists Are Creating Work That’s About, and Made From, Food
Ligaya Mishan · The New York Times Style Magazine · Nov 29, 2018
A City at the Crossroads Examines Migration, Through Art
The New York Times · Jun 22, 2018
This Art Group Installs Pick-Your-Own-Fruit Parks Around Los Angeles
Clarissa Wei · NPR · Jun 13, 2017
Fruit Activists Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction
The New York Times · May 12, 2013
Eat a Free Peach: Mapping “Public Fruit”
Dana Goodyear · The New Yorker · Mar 12, 2012
TRANIMAL: 2010’s Top 10 Fashion Trends in LA
LA Weekly · 2010
Fallen Fruit Teams with LACMA
Los Angeles Times · Feb 4, 2010
Fallen Fruit Collective Opens Art Projects in LA and Mexico
Christine N. Ziemba · CalArts · Feb 5, 2010
Fallen Fruit
Annie Buckley · Art in America
Fallen Fruit
Christopher Knight · Los Angeles Times · 2009
Image Gallery
Austin Young, Visione di Pietro in Artribune.
Fallen Fruit on the cover and feature story of Issues in Science and Technology Magazine's spring 2022 publication!
Fallen Fruit on the cover and feature story of Issues in Science and Technology Magazine's spring 2022 publication!
David Burns, Zoeey Deschanel and Austin Young. still from ‘What Am I Eating’ on HBO MAX
Fallen Fruit, Austin Young and David Allen Burns, on The Kelly Clarkson Show 2022
Fallen Fruit at Meta Headquarters
Fallen Fruit, on the cover of Art News Winter 2019
Austin Young and David Burns, Elle Decor Italia
Critical Voices:
“Austin Young transforms color into a force that moves through life, the body, and perception itself.”
— ARTFRAME“The eccentric, vibrant, and original Austin Young.”
— Artribune“Austin Young reconstructs tropes of Pop Art and pop culture into alarmingly brilliant new icons.”
— Shana Nys Dambrot“An emerging cohort is challenging what it means to play with the most essential material.”
— The New York Times (on Fallen Fruit)“Intrepid.”
— Cinqué Hicks, Artforum (on Fallen Fruit)“His work captures beauty at its most vital, carnal, visceral, alive. His exuberant intensity is matched by his innate sense of balance. His work will be seen as an important historical reference for our times, and his name will be legend.”
— Margaret Cho“A fresh approach to produce.”
— Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times (on Fallen Fruit)“The Los Angeles–based artist collective Fallen Fruit has gained the attention of the art world and local community alike with a fusion of populism, relational aesthetics, and adolescent antics.”
— Annie Buckley, Art in America (on Fallen Fruit)“I’m pretty unabashed in my enthusiasm for Austin Young’s work. I think he’s the most original photographer to emerge in America since David LaChapelle.”
— Richard Metzger
