BIOGRAPHY

Born in Selma, Alabama

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2005 M.F.A. in Visual Art, Columbia University, New York, NY

2001 B.F.A. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009 Young Americans, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Supramundane, Ambach and Rice Gallery, Seattle, WA

Alison Elizabeth Taylor, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH

2008 Alison Elizabeth Taylor, James Cohan Gallery, NY

2007 MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006 Alison Elizabeth Taylor, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Truly She is None Other, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Other America, Exit Art, New York, NY

Dirty Pigeons, 96 Gillespie, London, England

2004 Gio Ponti, Acme, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Chip Tom

Untold Tales, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY

John Yau +3, Volume Gallery, New York, NY

Hungry Eyes, Wallach Gallery, Columbia Univ., New York, NY, Curated by Ali Subotnik

2003 Lead Poisoning, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Rich Jacobs and Marcea Goldberg

Le Dernier Cri, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

2002 Godfrey Daniels School of Charm, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Curated by Tom Patterson

Superheroes, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Spring Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sheets, Hilarie M., "Critics Pick: Alison Elizabeth Taylor," ARTnews, January 2009

Sudarsky, Noah Marcel, "All the Art that's Fit to Drink," Artscape, June/August 2009

Frankel, David, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," ArtForum, October 2008

Koplos, Janet, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," Art in America, September 2008

Turner, Christopher, "Against the Grain," Modern Painters, July/August 2008

Baker, R.C., "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," Village Voice, June 17, 2008

"The Revivalist: Into the Woods," New York Magazine, June 23, 2008

"Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, June 23, 2008

Armetta, Amoreen, "Critics Picks," Artforum.com, June 10, 2008

Gopnik, Blake, "Going With the Grain to Convey Her Vision," The Washington Post, June 7, 2008

Kino, Carol, "An Artist Breathes New Life Into Renaissance Ways With Wood," The New York Times, May 27, 2008

Cohen, David, "The Greats in the Galleries," The New York Sun, December 28, 2006, New York, NY

Cohen, David, "Angst & Beauty," The New York Sun, September 21, 2006, New York, NY

Baker, R.C., "Best in Show: Requiescat in Pace," The Village Voice, September 21, 2006, New York, NY

Cohen, David, "New Art on the Walls - and the Floor & Ceiling, Too", The New York Sun, September 20, 2006, New York, NY

Genocchio, Ben, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," The New York Times, September 8, 2006, New York, NY

Camhi, Leslie, "Into the Wood", Vogue, September 2006, New York, NY

Yau, John, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau", The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006,

Brooklyn, NY

"Alison Elizabeth Taylor at James Cohan Gallery", Makezine, September 2006, Los Angles, CA

Palmer, Valerie, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," Venus Magazine, Summer 2004, Chicago, IL

Westbrook, Lindsey, "Reviews," Artweek, June 2003, New York, NY

"Shauna's L.A. Round-up," Coagula, July 2003, New York, NY

Coley, Byron and Thurston Moore, "Bull Tongue," Arthur Magazine, January 2003, New

York, NY

Patterson, Tom, "High on Life," Visions Magazine, 2002, Baltimore, MD

WORK REPRODUCED

Brooklyn Review, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2008

Harper's Magazine, New York, NY, August 2007 

Neither Here Nor There: The Melvins, Ipecac Press, April 2004

Other Magazine Issue 4, San Francisco, CA June 2003

Fishwrap, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Spring 2001

AWARDS

2009 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship

2006 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program

2004 Herbert S. Germaise Fellowship for painting and drawing

2003 Beach Fund Scholarship, Columbia University

2000 California Painter's Scholarship

1999 Merit Scholarship, Art Center College of Design

1998 Art Center at Night Scholarship

TEACHING

Adjunct Faculty, Columbia University, 2005

Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2004-2005

Visiting Artist, MassArts, 2007

Visiting Artist Penn State University, 2008

Visiting Lecturer, New York Studio School, 2009