Asher Young spent his early years as a magician, haunted house architect, concert lighting designer, site-specific theater director, and exhibition curator.
Now he runs Asher Young Studio.
AYS creates worlds where the audience is the protagonist.
Photography by @isaacpoole
Asher Young Studio is a creative direction, design, and producing studio based in New York City.
Ranging from art installations to immersive theater to concert tours, AYS establishes every project’s creative narrative through a rigorous artistic process and invites audiences to be the protagonist in the work.
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COLLECTIONS — SERIES 001
@maleehasansari in @asheryoung.studio
A lily claimed the boxers. Nature reclaimed the cap. Items from a future apartment.
Available now. Link in bio.
COLLECTIONS – SERIES 001
An apartment taken over by plants.
Available now. Link in bio.
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Series 001 investigates a simple question: if plants make up over 80% of the world’s biomass, why are our spaces designed almost entirely without them?
Asher Young, inspired by conversations with plant neurologist Stefano Mancuso, imagined an apartment entirely occupied by plants. Series 001 is a set of editions pulled from that world.
FLOCK
The sculptures illuminate as people pass beneath by them, in patterns simulating flocking patterns with light.
Inspired by boat-tailed grackles—social, playful, and communal birds—reflecting the life of the surrounding community.
A piece by Asher Young Studio.
FLOCK
40 birds. 5 years. 1 Mass Audubon bird specialist. 6 designers + engineers.
Forty birds ripple in waves of light, inspired by the boat-tailed grackle.
A piece by Asher Young Studio.
MASQUERADE | Spinning reds…
Transformed Lee’s Art Shop into the Opéra Populaire with 30,000 crystals, 910 roses, a maze of mirrors, hundreds of bottles of champagne, and a corps of custom automata.
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Reserve entry at masqueradenyc.com
Executive Producer & Creative Director: Asher Young
Photos 1, 3-5: Oscar Ouk
Photo 2: Matthew Murphy
Photo 4: George Etheredge
MASQUERADE | Paper faces on parade.
@masqueradenyc is now open.
Every night, guests are invited to a masquerade and traverse five floors of the Opéra Populaire. Based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
MASQUERADE | Did you think I’d left you for good?
Over 2.5 years in the making and brought to life by over 300 incredible people, including a team of artists, performers, technicians, stage managers, and butlers who guide audiences through Masquerade night after night.
Thank you Diane, Andrew, and Randy for bringing us on.
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Reserve entry at masqueradenyc.com
Executive Producer & Creative Director: Asher Young
Photos 1, 5, 7: Amir Hamja for @nytimes
Photos 2-4, 6: George Etheredge for @nytimes
In 2024, we:
- Transformed the interior beaux-arts court of a museum into an animated neon discotheque
- Enclosed a sunrise in an office building at 5:30am every day
- Planted the beginnings of a flock in a large red oak
- Recreated a photograph with fabric, metal, and light
- Rewound time, stimulated growth, trapped energy, tamed particles, shaped water, and redirected light
- Launched a series of marble icons into a nightclub
- Physicalized memories using light, fans, water particulates, and personal archives
- Dispatched 73 lemons across the country
Here’s to 2025.
APPS | Designing for the future | Microsoft
Individual trichroic prisms appear and disappear in darkness. Beams of light pass through and between them, changing colors as the prisms rotate into different configurations.
@microsoft #msignite
