Born in Boston, Greta Young is a Santa Fe artist who studied at the California College of the Arts in Oakland California. There she started experimenting with mixed media on cardboard. She now focuses on combining drawing with painting, using black and white gesso, oil paint and oil stick on canvas.
Her work was selected by the Menil Collection curator Toby Kamps for an 8 person exhibit, “Art on the Edge” at the New Mexico Museum of Art in 2013. Her work was included in the “Atomic Surplus” exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, and she was the featured artist in the “Atomic Surplus” review in ARTnews, 2014. Her works have been seen in numerous exhibitions across the country, including New York City, Chicago and Boston.