“Henry Taylor culls his cultural landscape at a vigorous pace, creating a language entirely his own from archival and immediate imagery, disparate material and memory. Through a process he describes as ‘hunting and gathering,’ Taylor transports us into imagined realities that interrogate the breadth of the human condition, social movements and political structures.”- Hauser & Wirth. Henry Taylor has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally, and his work is in prominent public collections including The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, Pérez Art Museum, Miami FL, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY. Recent exhibitions include a survey show titled “Henry Taylor: B Side” organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and exhibited at The Whitney Museum in New York the following year. Henry Taylor is represented by Hauser & Wirth.
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Born 1958, Ventura, CA.
Lives and works in Los Angeles CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Henry Taylor. no title, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY Jill Mulleady & Henry Taylor: You Me, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
2023
Henry Taylor. FROM SUGAR TO SHIT, Hauser & Wirth, Paris, France
Henry Taylor: B Side, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Henry Taylor: Nothing Change, Nothing Strange, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA
2022
Henry Taylor: B Side, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
2021
Disappeared, but a tiger showed up, later, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton NY
Henry Taylor, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
2019
NIECE COUSIN KIN LOOK HOW LONG IT'S BEEN, Blum & Poe, New York NY
2018
Here and There, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2017
A Portrait Show, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
the floaters, The High Line, New York NY
2016
Henry Taylor With a New Film by Kahlil Joseph, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Henry Taylor. Camarillo State Hospital, Henry Taylor’s, Los Angeles CA
This Side, That Side, The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, Mexico
2015
Henry Taylor, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
They shot my dad, they shot my dad!, Artpace, San Antonio TX
Henry Taylor, Blum & Poe, New York NY
Henry Taylor, UNTITLED, New York NY
2013
Henry Taylor, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
2012
March Forth, UNTITLED, New York NY
Henry Taylor, MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY
2011
Henry Taylor, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
2010
Couch Paintings, WPA, Los Angeles CA
2009
Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York NY
Henry Taylor, Mesler & Hug, Cardenas Bellenger, Los Angeles CA, Paris, France
2008
Girrrrrl, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
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
Henry Taylor, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York NY
2004
Free 99, Sister, Los Angeles CA
2000
Henry Taylor, 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
2024
American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire, Rubell Museum, Washington DC
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, Philadelphia Museum of Art cur. Ekow Eshun, Philadelphia PA (Traveling exhibition)
World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project, CAAM California African American Museum Los Angeles CA
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary New York NY
Day for Night. New American Realism, Aïshti Foundation / Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica cur. Flaminia Gennari Santori, Massimiliano Gioni, Rome, Italy
OVERSERVED, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York NY
Come One, Come All, Anthony Gallery, Chicago IL
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, Brookyln NY
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, cur. Ekow Eshun, London, UK (Traveling exhibition)
2023
Togetherness: For Better or Worse, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas TX
Kindred Worlds | The Priscila and Alvin Hudgins Collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY
Face Values, 125 Newbury, New York NY
Summer Exhibition 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, University of Denver, Denver CO (Travelling Exhibition)
2022
Collection Highlights, Rubell Museum, Miami FL
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Pictus Porrectus. Reconsidering the Full Length Portrait, Isaac Bell House / The Salon at Rosecliff, cur. Alison Gingeras, Dodie Kazanjian, Newport RI
30 Americans, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain CT (Travelling Exhibition)
America, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Quebec City / Hirshorn Museum, cur. André Gilbert, Katherine Markoski, Montreal, Canada
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami FL
Some People, Cheim & Read, New York NY
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2021
The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach FL
Rested, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York NY
Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
30 Americans, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC (Travelling Exhibition)
The Stand-Ins: Figurative Painting from the Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Black Bodies, White Spaces. Invisibility & Hypervisibility, Green Family Art Foundation, cur. Aindrea Emelife, Dallas TX
The Emerald Tablet, Jeffrey Deitch, cur. Ariana Papademetropoulos, Los Angeles CA
Road Rage, The Church, cur. Eric Fischl, Sara Cochran, Sag Harbor NY
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Frye Art Museum, cur. Connie H. Choi, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
Pushing The Margins: A Survey of LA Artists, Galleri Opdahl, cur. Charles Gaines, Stavanger, Norway
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York NY
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, cur. Connie H. Choi, Salt Lake City UT (Travelling Exhibition)
2020
i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, ICA Boston, Boston MA
Untitled, 2020, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Say it Loud, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York NY
Tell Me Your Story, Kunsthal KaDE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
New Images of Man, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Wish You Were Here, Roberts Projects, Culver City CA
30 Americans, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM (Travelling Exhibition)
Black Refractions. Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT (Travelling Exhibition)
Black Refractions. Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx NY
Black Refractions. Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton MA (Travelling Exhibition)
30 Americans, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu HI (Travelling Exhibition)
2019
30 Americans, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo MI (Travelling Exhibition)
Punch, Jeffrey Deitch, cur. Nina Chanel Abney, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO (Travelling Exhibition)
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston SC (Travelling Exhibition)
May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, cur. Ralph Rugoff, Venice, Italy
Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (plus Cat house), Serious Topics, cur. Kristin Calabrese, Joshua Aster, and Torie Zalben, Inglewood CA
30 Americans, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE (Travelling Exhibition)
Serpentine Fire, Quotidian, Los Angeles CA
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco CA (Travelling Exhibition)
In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic, Stony Island Arts Bank, org. Theaster Gates, Chicago IL
Presenting Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years, Rubell Museum, Miami FL
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Tel Aviv Museum, cur. Ruth Direktor, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018
Here, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (Travelling Exhibition)
FOUR ROOMS, Blum & Poe, New York NY
Stand Up!, Couvent des Jacobins and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pinault Collection, Rennes, France
30 Americans, Juliet Art Museum, Charleston WV (Travelling Exhibition)
Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke VA
30 Americans, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio TX (Travelling Exhibition)
2017
30 Americans, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA (Travelling Exhibition)
Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa CA
Why Art Matters!, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
Black + Brown People | White Problems, Samson Projects, Boston MA
Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery, East Hampton NY
Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center,cur. Sadie Laska, Greenwich CT
2017 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, cur. Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, New York NY
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn NY
ICA Collection. New Acquisitions, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
Revenge of the Crystal, SADE, cur. by Ariana Papademetropoulos, Los Angeles CA
Kahlil Joseph. NEW SUNS, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
We need to talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York NY
greater works than these shall he do…, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles CA
2016
Los Angeles. A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, cur. Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth, Oslo, Norway
Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY
Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, cur. Duro Olowu, London, UK
Route to (re)Settlement, Mann-Simons Site, cur. Kimberly Light and Cecelia Stucker, Columbia SC
Human Interest. Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Nothing Compares to You. Works from the Collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School Cape Cod, East Sandwich MA
Non-Fiction, The Underground Museum, cur. Noah Davis, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH (Travelling Exhibition)
A Shape That Stands Up, Hammer Museum at Art + Practice, org. Jamillah James, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles. A Fiction, MAC Lyon Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, cur. Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth, Lyon, France
These Strangers... Painting and People, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2015
Unrealism. Presented by Larry Gagosian & Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami FL
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI (Travelling Exhibition)
30 Americans, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock AK (Travelling Exhibition)
Noah Davis and Selections from the Underground Museum, FUG, Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery, New York NY
And There Is an End, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles CA Gavin
Call and Response, Brown’s enterprise, New York NY
2014
The Great Figure, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn NY
They’re There, Charlie James Gallery, cur. Dane Johnson, Los Angeles CA
New Image Painting, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago IL
30 Americans, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA (Travelling Exhibition)
TICKET TO REALITY, Marlborough Chelsea, New York NY
2013
Contemporary Galleries. 1980–Now, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Inside This Human Clay, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles CA
B*E*E*R Show, The Green Gallery,cur. Drew Heitzler, Milwaukee WI Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 30 Americans, Nashville TN (Travelling Exhibition)
2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art,cur. Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers, and Tina Kukielski, Pittsburgh PA
Room to Live. Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, org. Bennett Simpson, Los Angeles CA
Body Language, The Studio Museum in Harlem,org. Abbe Schriber, New York NY
Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, cur. Bennett Simpson, New York NY
2012
Blues for Smoke, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, cur. Bennett Simpson, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee WI (Travelling Exhibition)
Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, org. Anne Ellegood, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA (Travelling Exhibition)
2011
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, org. Ryan Schneider and Jonas Wood, Los Angeles CA
30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (Travelling Exhibition)
Greater LA, 483 Broadway, 2nd Floor, cur. Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York NY
30 Americans, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC (Travelling Exhibition)
Human Nature. Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2010
The Artist’s Museum, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
At Home / Not at Home. Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College,cur. Matthew Higgs, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Henry Taylor & Phil Wagner, Rental Gallery, New York NY
2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
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, New York NY
Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery,cur. Bart Exposito, Los Angeles CA
2006
Red Eye. L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
Metro Pictures part two, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami FL
Back From the Other Side of the World, Ben Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
LA Trash and Treasure, Milliken Gallery, cur. Liv Stoltz, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
SPF: Self-Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA
California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York NY
Losing My Head, Sister, Los Angeles CA
2000
Eccentric Abstraction II, 1234 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1998
To Get Rid of the Mystery, Three Day Weekend, cur. Andrew Hahn, Santa Monica CA
1995
Alimento, Ventura CA
Water and Power, California Institute of the Arts, cur. Karen Sanders, Ventura CA
1994
Nervous, California Institute of the Arts, Ventura CA
Henry Taylor
It wasn't just Sunday, it was Easter Sunday and I had to wear a dress!
2024
Color aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite aquatints.
Rives BFK white paper
Image size 42" x 36"
Paper size 48.5" x 42"
Edition of 35
Henry Taylor
I Love Looking at You
2024
Color sugarlift aquatint.
Rives BFK white paper
Image size 42" x 36"
Paper size 48.5" x 42"
Edition of 35
Henry Taylor
All you left me was a corner. We rode til the wheels fell off
2024
Color aquatint and sugarlift aquatint.
Rives BFK white paper
Image size 38" x 30"
Paper size 44.5" x 36"
Edition of 35
Henry Taylor
Fade to Black, I Did Not Pay the Electric Bill
2024
Aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite aquatints.
Rives BFK white paper
Image size 38" x 30"
Paper size 44." x 36"
Edition of 35
Henry Taylor
History is Everywhere
2024
Color sugarlift aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 20" x 24"
Paper size 26.5" x 30"
Edition of 35
Henry Taylor
It's about to go down (yellow)
2024
Color aquatint and sugarlift aquatint.
Somerset textured white paper
Image 14" x 12"
Paper size 18.5" x 16"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
It's about to go down (green)
2024
Color aquatint and sugarlift aquatint.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 14" x 12"
Paper size 18.5" x 16"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Enjoy Yourself, Enjoy Yourself with Me
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 5" x 7"
Paper size 11" x 13"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Maybe I should just drop it.
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 5" x 7"
Paper size 11" x 13"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: I'm in love with this one!
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Just draw
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Gone
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Mommy Dearest
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Some of us can barely see
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Softground Suite: Fuck it up!
2024
Softground etching with chine collé.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 7" x 5"
Paper size 13" x 11"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
Etching for Pope. L
2024
Hardground etching.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 6" x 6"
Paper size 10.5" x 10"
Edition of 25
Henry Taylor
We came for Kenny
2024
Softground etching.
Somerset textured white paper
Image size 14" x 12"
Paper size 18.5" x 16"
Edition of 25