"I constantly challenge myself artistically and I do not to let the negative opinions of others affect me and my process."

Anthony Peyton Young is a Boston-based artist born and raised in Charleston, WV. Working primarily in painting, drawing, ceramics, and collage, his work explores methods of memorializing, healing, family traditions, and Black and Black queer intimacy, along with the spaces we use to activate these acts of connection.

Anthony earned his B.A. from West Virginia State University and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He's received the SMFA/Tufts Traveling Fellowship and the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artist, and his work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Simmons University, and the Juliette Art Museum. His work has been featured in Gay Letter Magazine, New American Painting, Evergreen Review, and The Boston Globe, and presented at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Harvard's Black Portraiture Conference.

Hometown
Charleston, WV