Catherine Sarah Young
Supervisors: Anna Munster, Tema Milstein, Claudia Tazreiter
Catherine Sarah Young is an artist, designer and writer who is a Scientia PhD candidate in UNSW Sydney School of Art & Design. She was born in Manila, the Philippines and has since lived and worked in ten countries. She uses her background in molecular biology, fine art, and interaction design to inform her interdisciplinary practice about environmental and planetary issues. She was a Fulbright scholar in the MFA in Interaction Design programme of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. She has been selected for several art residencies and leadership fellowships worldwide, such as the Singapore-ETH Future Cities Laboratory, Institute for the Future, British Council, Obama Foundation, The Peace Studio, Homeward Bound, the Top 5 Arts media residency by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and others. She was one of Art Review Asia’s Future Greats in 2018, a 13 Artist Awards recipient in the Philippines in 2021, and was listed as one of the ’10 Women Leading the Fight against Climate Change’ by Earth.org in 2024. She has teaching experience in SVA (cybernetics and systems design, entrepreneurial design), UNSW (design studio project 1), University of Technology Sydney (futures studies), and the University of the Underground (New Politics and Afrofuturism Programme).
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Artscience
- Sensory art
- Environmental art