HENRY TAYLOR

Born
Oxnard, California, 1958

Education                 
BA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1995

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Henry Taylor, Untitled, New York, NY                                    
Henry Taylor, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

2011                                   
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2010                                   
Couch Paintings, WPA, Los Angeles, CA

2009                                    
Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Henry Taylor, Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles, CA & Cardenas Bellenger, Paris, France

2008                                   
Girrrrrl, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Volta4, Basel, with Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Chicago Kin, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2007                                   
We’re all water, but some of us are muddy, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Sis and Bra, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2006                                   
Get Black, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

2005                                   
Daniel Reich, New York, NY

2004                                    
Free 99, Sister, Los Angeles, CA                     

2000                                   
1234 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999                                   
30 Artists in 30 Days, Georges, Los Angeles, CA

1995
The Garden of E, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA     

Group Exhibitions

2012
Made in LA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011                 
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
30 Americans, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2010                                   
The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Taylor / Phil Wagner, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, 2010, curated by Matthew Higgs at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2008                                   
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
MAYDAY, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
NADA Art Fair, Miami, with Cardenas Bellanger, Berlin, Germany
We are revolutionaries, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
A dead serious group show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

2007                                   
Repeat after me: I AM a Revolutionary, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Bart Exposito) 

2006                                   
Red Eye, LA artist from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Metro Pictures, part two, MOCA North Miami, Miami, FL
Back From the Other Side of the World, Ben Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
LAXed, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
LA Trash and Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2004                                   
SPF: Self Portraits, Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich, New York NY
Losing My Head, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

2000                                   
Eccentric Abstraction II, 1234 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA                
To Get Rid of the Mystery, Three Day Weekend (curated by Andrew Hahn), Santa Monica, CA

1995                                   
Alimento, Ventura, CA
Water and Power (curated by Karen Sander), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1994                                   
Nervous, California Institute of the Arts, Ventura, CA

Bibliography

2012
Finkel, Jori. “Hammer Announces $100,000 Biennial Prize,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2012.
Johnson, Ken. "A Visual Equivalent of the Blues, in Warm Shades," New York Times, February 2, 2012.
Miller, Michael H. "Henry Taylor Paints a Picture," New York Observer, January 27, 2012.
Nathan, Emily. "Henry Taylor: Untitled," Artnet.com, March 23, 2012.

2011                 
Dalton, Trini. “Henry Taylor.” Artforum.com, April 24, 2011
Douglas, Sarah. “Blazing Talent Henry Taylor sets the L.A. art scene on fire.” Modern Painters 23, no. 2 (March 2011): 40-42.
Goldman, Edward. “Magnificent Seven From the Year 2011,” Huffingtonpost.com, December 30, 2011.
Misheff, Johnny. “Visiting Artists: Henry Taylor.” New York Times Magazine, March 7, 2011.

2009                 
Knight, Christopher. “Review: Henry Taylor at Mesler & Hug.” LATimes.com, May 14, 2009.
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Henry Taylor, Mesler & Hug.” Artforum.com, April 28, 2009.
Sharp, Chris. “Scrambling the Codes.” Art Review (October 2009): 60-62.
Stillman, Nick. “Henry Taylor – Rental.” Artforum 47, no. 9 (May 2009): 240.                                                              

2008                 
Breidenbach, Tom. “Michele O’ Marah and Henry Taylor – Sister at Rental.” Artforum 46, no. 5 (January 2008): 284-285.
McBride, Shasta. “Girrrrrl! By Henry Taylor at the Santa Monica Art Museum.” Examiner.com, November 11, 2008.