Since January 2001, the Donald Young Gallery has presented an exhibition program focusing on emerging and established artists, with a special interest in film, video, and sound. The DYG Projects series invites regional, national, and international artists to submit proposals for new gallery-based installations, web-based artist projects to be hosted by the gallery’s web site, or the presentation of existing works that have not been exhibited in Chicago. The series also serves as an opportunity for artists represented by the Donald Young Gallery to explore different media. The gallery hopes this program will become a venue for the presentation of new and unknown works and an opportunity to work with artists who do not exhibit regularly with the gallery.

The Donald Young Gallery represents established international contemporary artists exhibiting large-scale work and installations in all media. Since opening in Chicago in 1983, the gallery has presented ambitious exhibitions by artists such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Martin Puryear, and Richard Serra, as well as younger artists including Sophie Calle, Cristina Iglesias, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak, Anne Chu, Josiah McElheny, and James Welling. With the presentation of video works by Bruce Nauman, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, and Rodney Graham, the Donald Young Gallery established its reputation as the first commercial gallery to successfully deal with this medium.