Education:

1990 - 96   Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON, majoring in sculpture and printmaking

Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Cybèle Young: NSEW, animation projection, Nuit Blanche, Toronto

2016 Cybèle Young: New Paper Sculpture, Some Changes Were Made, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Paperspective, Preston Gallery, Cambridge, ON

Cybèle Young New Works, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, AB

2011 Cybèle Young Paper Conversations, Rebecca Hossack Gallery London, UK

2010 Cybèle Young New Works, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC

2009 Cybèle Young, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Cybèle Young, Forum Gallery, LA

Cybèle Young – “Are you finished with that?” Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON

Cybèle Young, Fated Compositions, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary

Cybèle Young, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON

Art Direction/Visual/Video Design:

2023 Assembly Hall, new creation - Kidd Pivot, Vancouver, BC/ World tour

Recent Group Exhibitions:

2022 Nasu Short Film Festival, Screening ‘Lap Pool’,  Nasu, Japan

2021 Sound Vision, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx,NY

2019 Pushing Paper, Museum of London, London,ON

2017 Seeing With Our Own Eyes, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Miniature: Small Contemporary Works, University of Wyoming Art Museum, USA

2013 Singular Vision, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

45th Annual Collector’s Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2012 Uncommon Ground: Alternative Realities, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 

Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery, 1962-2012, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Paper Doll, Mendel Gallery Saskatoon

2011 Peace on Earth: Art Against War, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

43rd Collectors Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Vantage Point, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Paper Doll, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB

Small Works, Swedish and Canadian Artists, Couture, Galleri, Stockholm

2010 Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer 

Selection, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

The Metamorphic Object, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida

           Art at Work, (catalogue) Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario

2009 Cybèle Young & Holly Lane, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Retelling Anne, (catalogue) MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph,    Ontario

Cybèle Young & Holly Lane, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

               New Acquisitions, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

               The Feminist Figure, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea

Collections – Select Corporate/Government:

Art Bank of Canada, Ottawa

Bank of Montreal, Toronto

Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs

Ernst & Young, Toronto 

Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, Toronto

Gryphon Capital Management, San Francisco, CA

Russell Investment Group World Headquarters, Tacoma, WA

Select Press-Art:

2020 CBC Arts - Paper Cuts

2017 Wallpaper Magazine, USA

NYLON Magazine, USA

2015 PaperMag, USA

2014 Paper Play, Sandu Publishers, China

2012 Koval, Ann, Paper Doll, Owens Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery - Catalogue 

Baxter, Meaghan, The Bold and the Delicate, Fast Forward, March 2012

2010 Cherry, Maralynn, Cybèle Young, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - Catalogue

Lettingwell, Edward, National Review-Cybèle Young, Art in America, May 2010

2008 Dault, Gary Michael, The Wonders of Washi, Globe and Mail, June 2008

Perfect Paper, PageOne Publishers, Singapore 

2007 Madsen, Bjarke, Miniature Works Score Big, Now Magazine, July 2007, 

Dault, Gary Michael, Review, Globe and Mail, July 2007,

Goddard, Peter, Review, Toronto Star, August 2007.

2005 Kennedy, Carolyn, Stealing the Show, Canadian Home & Country, April, 

Inspiration: Keeping Up Appearances, Wish Magazine, September

2004 Dault, Julia, Five Exemplary Exhibitions, The National Post, Oct. 14, 

Wagman, Shawna. Small World, Elle Canada, September.

*select press online -  http://forumgallery.com/artist/cybele-young/press/

Grants/Awards/Competitions:

2023  Ontario Art Council Chalmers Fellowship - Recipient

Ontario Arts Council “Individual - Visual Arts Creation Project Grant”

2022  Canada Council for the Arts “Research and Creation - Visual Arts” phase 2

Toronto Arts Council “Individual - Visual Arts”

2021  Canada Council for the Arts “Research and Creation - Visual Arts”

  Ontario Arts Council “Project Grant - Visual Arts”

2019  Canada Council for the Arts “Research and Creation - Literature”

  Toronto Arts Council “Individual - Visual Arts”

2017  Ontario Arts Council “Mid-Career Project Grant”

2015  Ontario Arts Council “Mid-Career Project Grant”

2014 Canada Council for the Arts “Project Grant”

2013 Toronto Arts Council “Mid-Career Level II Artist Grant”

2012 IBBY Canada Cleaver Award for ‘A Few Blocks’ Groundwood Books

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award – shortlist ‘A Few Blocks’ Groundwood Books

Canadian Booksellers Association – Libris Award – shortlist ‘Ten Birds’

2011 Governor General’s Award for Illustration - ‘Ten Birds’ 

Canada Council for the Arts “Paris Residency Grant” (May – August 2011)

2010 Toronto Arts Council “Mid-Career Level II Artist Grant”

Ontario Arts Council “Exhibition Assistance Grant”

Ontario Arts Council “Mid-Career Project Grant”

K. M. Hunter Award – shortlist

2009 Toronto Transit Commission St Clair W. Streetcar Shelter Public Art

2008 Ontario Arts Council “Exhibition Assistance Grant” – x2

Ontario Arts Council “Mid-Career Artist Grant”

K. M. Hunter Award – shortlist

Open Studio Print Award – honorable mention

Open Studio Nick Novak Scholarship, 2007-08

Ontario Arts Council “Exhibition Assistance Grant”

Canada Council for the Arts “Project Grant”

2006 Toronto Arts Council “Mid Career Level II Artist Grant”

2004 Ontario Arts Council “Emerging Artist Grant” 

Canada Council for the Arts “Emerging Artist Grant”

2001 Toronto Arts Council “Emerging Artist Grant” 

Canada Council for the Arts “Emerging Artist Grant” 

2000 Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition 2000, 2nd prize

Nominated for Governor General’s Award for Children’s Book Illustration

1999 Ernst & Young Best Original Print Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

Arts Toronto Protégé Honours Award

Residencies:

2022  Wyman Visiting Artist Professorship - (March) University of Wisconsin, River Falls

2019  Independent Artist Residency - (March) Banff Centre for the Arts

2018  The Evolving Book Artist Residency - (March) Banff Centre for the Arts

2017  212BoxArchitecture Artist Residency - (June-July) NYC

2016  Banff Text Artist Residency - (May) Banff Centre for the Arts

2011  Canada Council for the Arts - (May – August 2011) Paris, France

Published Books:

2015 Some Things I’ve Lost, Groundwood Books

The Queen’s Shadow, KidsCanPress (foreign-Japan/Korea/China)

Lane Anderson Science Award - Winner

2014 Nancy Knows, Tundra Books (foreign-Japan/China)

TD Marilyn Baillie Award - Winner

2013 Out the Window, Groundwood Books

Ten Birds Meet a Monster, KidsCanPress (foreign-China)

2012 A Few Bites, Groundwood Books 

2011 Ten Birds, KidsCanPress, (foreign-Japan/China, French Scholastic)

Governor General’s Award - Winner

A Few Blocks, Groundwood Books (foreign-Brazil)

2007 Jack Pine, Groundwood Books (written by Christopher Patton)

2000 Pa’s Harvest, Groundwood Books (written by Jan Andrews)

Governor General’s Award - Nominee