HENRY TAYLOR

About the artist

Henry Taylor lives and works in Los Angeles CA. In 2022, a major survey exhibition dedicated to the artist, ‘Henry Taylor: B Side,’ his largest to date, was exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA and was then on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY until 28 January 2024. Taylor’s work will be featured in group exhibitions this fall including ‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1976– Now’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, and ‘World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project’ at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles CA. Taylor’s work is in prominent public collections including the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Broad Museum, Los Angeles CA, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA, 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 Fine Art, Houston TX, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, 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. In 2018, Taylor was the recipient of The Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize in 2018 for his outstanding achievements in painting. Taylor’s work was presented at the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY in 2017 and the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy in 2019.