H Spencer Young

H Spencer Young (b. Cleveland, Ohio) is a New York-based writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. Spencer has a B.A. in Visual Media with a minor in Cinema Studies from The American University in Washington, D.C., where his narrative thesis film won the American Visions university-wide, juried competition. Spencer was sponsored by Czech author and screenwriter Arnost Lustig to attend FAMU, the Czech National Film School in Prague. He was one of 13 students from across the U.S. chosen by author and presidential historian, Dr. Douglas Brinkley, for "The Majic Bus," a collegiate experiential learning program which traveled to 44 states, in order to study Geography of the American Civil Rights Struggle, American Intellectual History, American Road Literature, and American Social History. December, 2022 Spencer exhibited at Art Basel Miami at Untitled Art with Beverly's, curated by Leah Dixon. December, 2021 Spencer exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach in the Gallery Sector of Satellite Art Fair, curated by Brian Andrew Whiteley. Winter/Spring 2020 Spencer's work "Memories of the Future, 2020" was exhibited as part of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit's (MOCAD) Rapid Response group show, curated by Wayne Northcross. Summer, 2019 and Spring 2021, Spencer's works Inversion #14, 2017 and Foundations, 2014 were auctioned on Paddle8.com and Capsule Auctions, respectively, to benefit the Center for Art Law in New York, curated by Louise Carron. Spencer has directed major fashion films which have been premiered by W Magazine, among others. Spencer's music video for Joan as Police Woman's "Warning Bell" was featured in The Atlantic. Spencer has shot and directed additional music videos for artists such as Mykki Blanco ("Head is Stone"), and Spencer edited and sound designed Rashid Johnson's "Samuel in Space," for Ballroom Marfa. In 2019, an image of Spencer's was selected for Simultaneous Soloists, a publication on the work of Anthony McCall from Pioneer Press, New York. Summer 2017 Spencer exhibited at Carriage Trade Gallery as part of Social Photography V, curated by Peter Scott. In January, 2016, he was selected to exhibit and speak on his work at the New York Public Library's "Librarian's Choice," curated by Fred Gutzeit. Spencer has done extensive commercial and motion picture directorial, editorial and photo collaborations, on global projects for clients such as Hudson's Bay Company, Beyonce, Maybelline, Saks Fifth Avenue, Vogue, 17 Magazine, Scripps Networks, CBS Networks, McCann Erickson, New Balance, Buckler, Juice Press, PBS, Nike, Lord and Taylor, Food Network, Honor, Henry Street Settlement, MTV Networks, Vice, Ogilvy & Mather, Council of Fashion Designers of America, Elephants Without Borders, Paul Taylor Dance Company, GMC, Adidas, Sears, Devonworks, Diane von Furstenberg, Gilt, PBS, and many more. On "The Majic Bus," Spencer traveled most of the United States, living on the first natural gas powered bus, spending time and studying with, often at their homes, cultural icons Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Bo Diddley, Townes Van Zandt, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Hubert Selby, Jr., Ramblin' Jack Elliot, William vanden Heuvel, Robert Hunter, Steven Soderbergh, Kerry Kennedy, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Carroll, Steven Ambrose, Jimmy Carter, Chris Felver, T. Boone Pickens, Alice Brock, William Kennedy, Chuck Berry, Hamilton Jordan, Larry Woiwode, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kinky Friedman, Melba Pattillo Beals, Liz Gilbert, and many others.