Biography
David Taylor earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. His photographs, multimedia installations, and artist’s books have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso Museum of Art; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; and Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe. His work is in a number of permanent collections, including Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia; University of Washington, Seattle; El Paso Museum of Art; Fidelity Investments, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. Taylor has completed recent major commissions for artwork installed in the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Van Horn, Texas and the United States Federal Courthouse in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Taylor’s ongoing examination of the U.S. Mexico border was supported by a 2008 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the work will be published in a forthcoming monograph from Radius Books
Resumé
Education 
MFA University of Oregon  1994  
BFA Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts  1989
Awards and Commissions
Critical Mass Top 50    2009
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation    2008
Public Commission, Horak Development/U.S. Border Patrol    2006
Public Commission, United States General Services Administration    2004
Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University    2004
Private Commission, Ryan & Sanders, LLP    2003
Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University    2002
Nexus Press Project Grant, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center    2001
Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University    2000
Merit Award “Current Works”   1998
Linfield College Faculty Development Grant    1997
Purchase Award “Evolving Medium: Biennial Photography Exhibition”    1994
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon    1994
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon    1993
David McCosh Memorial Scholarship, University of Oregon    1993  

 
Exhibitions
One and Two Person
Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM    2010
Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ    2010
Aldrich  Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefiled, CT    2009
SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX    2009
ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN    2008
SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY    2008
Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA    2002
SAVAGE, Portland, OR    2002
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX    2001
Photo Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN    2001 
Ironton Studios and Gallery, Denver, CO    2001
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO    2001
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX    2000
Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR    1998
SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX    1997
Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR    1996
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR    1995
Obscura Gallery, Portland, OR    1994

Small Group    
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL    2010 (scheduled)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ    2010
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM    2009
Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR    2009
New Mexico State Capitol Rotunda Gallery, Santa Fe, NM    2008
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Ctr. for the Visual Arts, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, TX    2006
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ    2004
Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX    2004  
Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN    2003
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA    2001      
Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL    2001
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA    2001
Port Angeles Art Center, Port Angeles, WA    2001
Everette Community College, Everette, WA    2000
S. K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR    1999
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA    1999
Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR    1998
Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR    1998
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN    1997
Benton County Historical Museum, Philomath, OR    1996
Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR    1995
Renshaw Gallery Linfield College, McMinnville, OR    1995
CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY    1995
Collections
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
University of Washington Special Collections, Seattle, WA
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Representation
James Kelly Contemporary
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Stoots Fine Photography
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