Fantich & Young

AboutMariana Fantich (Ukraine) and Dominic Young (UK) are London based artists who have been collaborating as Fantich & Young since 2008. Their work investigates themes of competition, hierarchy, winners and losers, invaders and the invaders, persecutors and the persecuted and the grey areas in between. Their work address parallels between social evolution and evolution in the natural world: Nature as a model or nature as a threat. Their work encompasses a conceptual and aesthetical approach to the sculptural juxtaposition of symbolic ready-made materials.
EducationMariana Fantich - PGCert Learning and Teaching in HE, UAL - MFA Media, Slade School of Art, UCL - BA Fine Art, Middlesex University - BA Fine Art, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine
Dominic Young - MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts - BA Fine Art, Guildhall University
Solo Exhibitions• 2019 – Radford University Art Museum, Covington Center, VA, USA• 2017 – Darwinian Voodoo, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL, USA• 2016 - Darwinian Voodoo, BBT Luxury Lifestyle Expo, ADNEC, Abu Dhabi• 2015 – Apex Predator | Darwinian Voodoo, Projects+Gallery, St. Louis, USA• 2012 – Artist Open Studio, Fantich & Young Studio, London, UK• 2011 – Double Games, Red In Tooth And Claw, See Studio, London, UK• 2010 – Artist Open Studio, Fantich & Young Studio, London, UK
Selected Group ExhibitionsFull list available on request or at www.fantichandyoung.co.uk2023-24 - Death and the Devil: The Fascination with Horror, Touring exhibition: Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Museum Georg Schafer, Schweinfurt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt2022 – 23 – A Queen Within. Fresno Art Museum | 2233 North First Street, Fresno, CA 937032021 – On Everyone’s Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman at The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany2019 - See Yourself E(x)ist, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York 10011, USA2018 - RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), USA2018 - Heaven or Hell, Cube Design Museum, Netherlands2017-18 - See Yourself E(x)ist, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY, USA2015 - Utopian Bodies, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Press CoverageBBC – Fantich and Young's Apex Predator Suit: Made with Human Hair and TeethThe Guardian – Art to sink your teeth intoVICE – The Creepiest Shoes on Earth Are Made of Human TeethDesignboom – Fantich and Young create apex predator shoes with human teethThe Independent – Shoes made from teeth – no, reallyWired – Savage and Stylish: The Apex Predator Shoe CollectionJuxtapoz – Interview: Fantich & Young and Their Apex Predator EmpireDazed – Shoes and suits made from human teeth and hairHuffington Post – Apex Predator Series Questions What It Means To Be CivilizedTrendland – Couture meets cannibalism in Fantich & Young’s Darwinian VoodooSleek Magazine – Dissecting the Uncanny World of Fantich & YoungColossal – Fantich & Young’s Apex Predator: Fashion With a BiteAdditional Press CoverageOn Everyone's Lips: The Oral Cavity in Art and Culture, Hatje Cantz, Nov 19, 2020. ISBN 978-3-7757-4800-1The Artists Keeping Up the Tradition of Mask-Making, Lynn Yaeger, The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb 22, 2020Fantich & Young Interview, WELHOUS™, Oct 15, 2015Harder, Stronger, Richer: Teeth-Laden Fashion for the 1%, Yatzer, Mar 5, 2015Evolutionary Creativity, M. Majzoub, Oasis Magazine, Issue 23, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, pp. 34-37, May 11, 2013Fantich & Young, Rhiannon M. Kirkland, ROOMS Magazine, Jan 22, 2013Spooky-couture: the fashion show from hell, via Fantich & Young, The Independent, Jan 6, 2013‘Predator’ shoes have teeth for soles, Meena Hart Duerson, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Oct 25, 2012Shoes Made of Teeth: Art or Stupid?, Ryan Bassil, Vise Magazine, Oct 23, 2012The Art Of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State, Eds. Hilary Powell & Isaac Marrero-Guillamon, June 14, 2012