2023
• Returning mentor, American University, School of Communication, visual media/film, undergraduate and graduate programs
2022
• Cool Cleveland: Landscape/Cityscape at Abattoir Gallery
• Art Basel | Miami, Untitled Art Fair, with Beverly’s, curated by Leah Dixon, exhibiting with MARIE ANINE MOLLER, JULIA COLAVITA, SONIA LOUISE DAVIS, LEAH DIXON, IVAN FORDE, ALEX HAMMOND, JACK HENRY, CHRIS HERITY, HAYLEY MARTELL, AZIKIWE MOHAMMED, HEIDI NORTON, STINA PUOTINEN, CARLOS ROSALES-SILVA, H SPENCER YOUNG.
• Interviewed for “Media in the Mix” podcast, American University, School of Communication, 12/22
• Artforum, Landscape/Cityscape
• Social Photography X, Carriage Trade, Group Show, Online Preview 11/23
• Interlocutor, a two-person exhibition featuring photographs, collages and a performance-installation by artists Jennifer McDermott and H Spencer Young. Curated by Clifford Owens. Art Club, New York.
• ecoartspace, Drought, 2022, 11h x 22w ft. billboard, by EJ McAdams w/H Spencer Young now live in North Adams, MA. Curator: Patricia Lea Watts.
• Group show, Spirit of Peace II, opens at ROOT Hotels Karaköy, Instanbul, Curator: Pinar Goodstone
• Returning mentor, The American University, School of Communication, Visual Media track
• New York Times: “Divine Excess on Avenue C”
• ecoartspace, Drought, 2022, 11h x 22w ft. billboard, by EJ McAdams w/H Spencer Young now live in Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Patricia Lea Watts.
• Selected finalist, ecoartspace’s I AM WATER billboard project; billboards to be presented in Massachusetts (August, 2022) and New York (September, 2022) (Illustrator / collaborator for EJ McAdams’ ‘DROUGHT, 2022’, Digital, 22h x 11w feet). Curator: Patricia Lea Watts.
• New York Times: “Was this the Art Party of the Summer?”
• Cultured Magazine, “New York Gallery O’Flaherty’s Packed the Street—and the Walls—for "The Patriot" Opening”
• The Patriot, Group Show, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY. Curator: Jamian Juliano-Villani, Billy Grant
• Finalist, ecoartspace’s I AM WATER; Illustrator / collaborator for EJ McAdams’ Drought, 2022, Digital, 22h x 11w feet
2021
• Art Basel, Gallery Sector, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Fla., Curator: Brian Whiteley
• Social Photography IX catalog published, Carriage Trade, New York. Curator: Peter Scott
• Teaching Artist: Visual Art, Painting, Photography, Digital Art, Manhattan Youth, New York, NY
• Indexularity, 2014 acquired by Farzin Fardin Fard (3F) collection. More info: Daily Mail
• Social Photography IX, Carriage Trade, New York, NY, Curator: Peter Scott
• Invited to Foundation NFT platform
• Center for Art Law, 2021 Benefit Auction, Capsule Auctions, Curator: Louise Carron
• Small Works, Group Show, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, Curators: Lisa Kurzner, Rose Burlingham
• Mentor, The American University, School of Communication, Visual Media track2020
• Rapid Response Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, Curator: Wayne Northcross
2020
• Small Works, Group Show, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, Curators: Lisa Kurzner, Rose Burlingham
• Artforum Must See: Social Photography VIII, Group Show, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
• Artsy: Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
• Teaching Artist, Visual Art, Manhattan Youth, East Side Middle School, New York, NY
• Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade, New York, NY, Curator: Peter Scott
• Group show, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI
• Teaching Artist, Manhattan Youth, Painting, Digital Art, Photography, New York, NY
• Image featured by the Lo Down, New York, NY
2019
• Social Photography VII Book announced, Carriage Trade, New York, NY https://carriage-trade-ny.myshopify.com, New York, NY
• Group Show, District Gallery, (Inaugural show), Cleveland, Ohio
• Image selected for Simultaneous Soloists, a publication on the work of Anthony McCall. Pioneer Press, New York, NY. Additonal info: Artbook.com
• Group Show, Carriage Trade, Social Photography VII, Lower East Side, New York; Prints are available in editions of ten in a first come first served basis: Link
• Benefit auction, Center for Art Law. Taylor|Graham Gallery & Paddle8, New York, NY (The auction has ended.)
• Guest Contributor, WFMU’s Rancho Thatchmo Radio Show, (WGXC, WFMU) Host: Thatcher Keats, New York, NY
• Joan as Police Woman, “Warning Bell [Official Music video]” featured in The Atlantic.
• Guest Lecturer, “The Imagemaker,” Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH
• Teaching Artist, Manhattan Youth, Painting, Digital Art, Photography, New York, NY
2018
• Group Show, Galerie Richard, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
• Guest Contributor, WFMU’s Rancho Thatchmo Radio Show, (WGXC, WFMU) Host: Thatcher Keats, New York, NY. Archive link.
• Teaching Artist, Manhattan Youth, Digital Art, Photography, New York, NY
• Carriage Trade, Group Show, Social Photography VI, Extended through September 23, 2018, New York, NY
• Goup Show, Carriage Trade, Gallery, Social Photography V, Lower East Side, New York, NY
• Teaching Artist, Filmmaking Intensive, Manhattan Youth, New York, NY
• Guest Contributor, WFMU’s Rancho Thatchmo Radio Show, (WGXC, WFMU) Host: Thatcher Keats, New York, NY
• Teaching Artist, Filmmaking Intensive, Manhattan Youth, New York, NY
• Work featured in The Lo Down, New York, NY
• Images featured by Henry Street Settlement
2017
• Director: Joan As Police Woman, "Warning Bell" Official Music Video
• Film for Juice Press featured on Fox News Business
• Images featured by The Lo Down, Lower East Side, NY
• Writer/Director: Global brand film, Hudson’s Bay Company, “Adventurers of Hudson’s Bay”
2016
• Writer/Director: Global brand film, Hudson’s Bay Company, “Adventurers of Hudson’s Bay”
• Guest Lecturer, Color Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2014
• Invited to shoot private family and survivor preview of National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Battery Park, New York, NY
• Profiled in, "The Lo Down: My LES." Lower East Side, New York, NY
• Commission: Henry Street Settlement 2013 Annual Report report cover. Lower East Side, New York, NY
2013
• Global collaboration with Ram Dass
• New York Times: Downtown Brooklyn / Ft. Greene Local features Spencer's photographs
• Guest Lecturer, The Ghetto Film School, Harlem, New York
2012
• Editor / Sound Designer, "Samuel in Space‚” Director: Rashid Johnson, Commission for Ballroom Marfa, DP: Rod Lamborn
• Commission for Juice Press; Directed and shot brand film currently playing in 65 store locations, as well as vehicle wraps, social media and in-store large format displays, New York, New York
• New York Times: Downtown Brooklyn / Ft. Greene Local features Spencer's photographs
• Director of Photography: Mykki Blanco, "Head is a Stone.” Director: Nick Hooker. Editor: Sloane Klevin.
• Writer/Director/Producer: Honor Spring 2012 Collection & Runway Film. Premiered by W Magazine
• Orchard Street, Rainy Morning" photograph featured all month on the City of New York homepage.
2010
• Photographs of the Gowanus Canal featured in the New York Times cover story.
2009
• New York Times: Downtown Brooklyn / Ft. Greene Local features Spencer's photographs
• Blackbook Magazine features 3 images accompanying Steve Lewis’ column.
2007 – 2008
• Writer/Director: "Swing State," feature documentary, World premiere: Cleveland International Film Festival, Set standing one-day attendance record (CIFF), Distributor: Morningstar Entertainment, Netflix, SnagFilm
2006
• Story Advisor: "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis" Director: Mary Jordan, Producer: Kenneth Peralta, World Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival‚ Entertainment Weekly, 10 best films of 2006
2004
• Interactive site specific digital proejction art for Amfibian, Experimental rock band led by Phish songwriter Tom Marshall, featuring original arrangements of Phish songs. Knitting Factory, New York, & B.B. King's, New York.
2001
• Founded first-ever Final Cut Pro-based creative production studio.
1998
• 1st place: Logo Competition, Amfibian, (Phish songwriter Tom Marshall’s band), featuring original arrangements of Phish songs + orginals.
1996
• Undergraduate narrative thesis short film, “Passage,” adapted from an original award-winning short story, wins American Visions Film Festival (undergraduate & graduate entrants.)