Amber Jean Young (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley, California. Young’s work explores ideas about grief, resilience, and whimsy as an antidote to despair across mediums, most recently ceramics.

 

Young has exhibited nationally including K. Imperial Fine Art, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, Monte Vista Projects and Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. Her work has been exhibited at San Francisco Art Fair with K. Imperial Fine Art in 2025 and at ArtPadSF with Robert Berman Gallery in 2012. She is a 2012 Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellow. Young’s work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly and in catalogs including The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012–2016, A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists At Kenyon College. Her art has been used on the covers and inside jackets of multiple Neil Young and Pegi Young albums and is included in the MediaMath and Fidelity Investments corporate art collections.