Michaela Younge was born in 1993, in Cape Town, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. The artist graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in 2015, receiving distinctions in both her theoretical and practical studies.

In 2022, Younge presented a solo booth as part of the curated Tomorrows/Today section at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, and was awarded the Tomorrows/Today’s prize for the best presentation. In 2021, she showed new work in a solo exhibition, entitled Gossip From The Palace at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 2020, she presented a body of work as part of SMAC’s Artist Room series in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as producing an immersive virtual experience, titled Everything Must Go, in collaboration with The Plot Gallery, as part of the virtual edition of FNB Art Joburg 2020. In 2019, Younge presented her solo exhibition, Nothing Bad, at SMITH in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as a solo presentation, titled Its Low Tide and I’m Scraping the Rocks, at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London.

Recent group exhibitions and presentations include RMB Latitudes Art Fair, in Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg; Investec Cape Town Art Fair in Cape Town, both with SMAC Gallery, in 2023; Artissima, in Turin, Italy; and FNB Art Joburg, at the Sandton Convention Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa, both with SMAC Gallery, in 2022.

Further group exhibitions include: Gather at SMAC in Cape Town; Toll Gate at the Silo District in Cape Town, South Africa; Pink’s Not Dead! as part of The Apartment Vol.2 x The Fourth exhibition in Cape Town, and Artissima (online) as part of SMAC’s group presentation (all 2020); Rendezvous and Close Encounters at SMITH in Cape Town, South Africa; both in 2018; Salad Folly, and Out of Nowhere, at SMITH, in Cape Town, South Africa; both in 2017.

Younge’s work is included in the Pérez Collection in Miami Florida and in the X Museum Collection in Beijing, China.