Jason Tanner Young received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2008.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Art and director of the Sculpture concentration at the University of Montevallo.  Young previously worked at Ohio University, where he taught courses in Sculpture + Expanded Practice as well as the Foundations Department.
 
He was awarded the Pentaculum Scholarship in Woodworking to participate in the week-long residency, Spring Pentaculum, at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (2022).  At the University of Montevallo he received a Summer Stipend for Pre-Tenured Faculty (2020), and he has also received a Teaching and Scholarly Projects Grant (2022).
 
Young shows his work extensively, and has been included in exhibitions at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center (Mobile, AL), Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment (Huntsville, AL), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA), Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) the Young Sculptors Competition at Miami University (Miami, OH), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), Visual Art Exchange (Raleigh, NC), Evansville Museum (Evansville, IN), and Rosalux Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) among many others.