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Alfred Young is a British conceptual artist born in Lambeth, London in 1936 and now living in California. He worked as a printer's apprentice in London before quiting to study painting at the London School of Printing. From 1959 to 1963 he attended the Royal College of Art where he developed a special interest in Additive Color and the work of Jacques Villon.

Career
In 1966, Young accepted a teaching position at University of New Mexico and immigrated to the United States. Pursuing a position at San Francisco State University, he moved to California and began a friendship with Mel Henderson and Joe Hawley, with whom he would later collaborate on various conceptual works. In 1969, the three staged a happening involving hundreds of people taking yellow cabs to a particular corner of market street simultaneously. Inspired by environmental concerns, a second work, "Coil", was orchestrated by the three months later when they drew an enormous circle in the San Francisco bay using green dye.