David TAYLOR

Education

1994

University of Oregon, MFA Visual Design/Photography

1989

Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, BFA Studio Art/Photography

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2017

DeLIMITations, Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo UABC, Mexicali, BC, Mexico (with Marcos Ramírez ERRE)

2016

DeLIMITations, Musuem of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (with Marcos Ramírez ERRE)

Here and Abroad: Photographs by David Taylor, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2015

Monuments and DeLIMITations, Nevada Musuem of Art, Reno, NV, (with Marcos Ramírez ERRE)

2013

Working the Line, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Boston, MA

276 Views of the United States - Mexico Border, Colorado Canter for Photographic Arts, Denver, CO

2011

Working the Line, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

Working the Line, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2010

Working the Line, Ballroom Marfa/Crowley Theater, Marfa, TX

Working the Line, New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM

Working the Line, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2009

Frontier/Frontera, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefiield, CT

Frontier/Frontera, SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2008

Working the Line, ISIS Gallery, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Working the Line, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

2002

High Water, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA

High Water, SAVAGE, Portland, OR

2001

High Water, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

High Water, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN   

Add:Delete, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO

2000

High Water, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

1998

Back to Nature, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR

1997

Artifacts of Western Settlement, SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

1996

Artifacts of Western Settlement, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR

1995

Crossing Borders, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene OR

1994

Irresistible Forces, Obscura Gallery, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

Displacement: Symbols and Journeys, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

2015

Covert Operations, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA

2014

Covert Operations, Scottsdale Musuem of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

SITElines: Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2013

Desert Grasslands, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

The Art of Renewal: A Selection of Works by Gallery Artists, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2012

Alien Contexts: Mexico and the U.S., UTSA Art Gallery, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Desert Initiative: Looking Across the Border, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Global Positions, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

2011

Past, Present, Future, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

Fraction Magazine: 3 years in the making, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

Beyond the Fence, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2010

La Frontera, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Pictures of the Year International, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Separating Species, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2008

Electoral College: Art and Politics, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

Water Planet: Beauty, Abundance, Abuse, Governor’s Gallery, New Mexico State Capital, Santa Fe, NM

2006

Passing Through/Settling In, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Univ. of Texas at El Paso

2004

Water, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Regarding Water in the West, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX  

2003

Wilderness Captured: Landscape Photography of William Henry Jackson, David Taylor and David Underwood, Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN

2001

Re-Imaging the West: A New History, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA                  

Focus on the Future: Digital Photography, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

2000

Beyond Novelty (traveling exhibition), Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Port Angeles Art Center, Port Angeles, WA; Everette Community College, Everette, WA

1999

Group Show, S. K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR

From Tractors to Tornadoes: Photographers of the Rural Landscape, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

1998

The CoOperators, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

The State of Oregon Photography, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR

Collections

Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Kansas, KS

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

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

Awards and Commissions

2014

SITE Santa Fe, commissioned project for Unsettled Landscapes Biennial

2012

New Mexico Council on Photography, Beaumont Newhall Grant

2011

Southwest Book Award, Border Region Library Association

AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Award

Best Books of 2010, photo-eye Bookstore

2010

Southwest Books of the Year, Pima County Public Library

International Photography Awards, Gold and Silver Metals

2008

Best of Show, “Electoral College: Art and Politics in 2008”

Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2006

Private Commission, Horak Development/U.S. Border Patrol\

2004- 2010

Public Commission, United States General Services Administration

2004

Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University

2003

Private Commission, Ryan & Sanders, LLP

2002

Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University

2001

Nexus Press Project Grant, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

2000

Faculty Minigrant, New Mexico State University

1998

Merit Award “Current Works”

1997

Linfield College Faculty Development Grant

1994

Purchase Award “Evolving Medium: Biennial Photography Exhibition” 

Juror’s Award “Mayor’s Art Show”

1993

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon

David McCosh Memorial Scholarship, University of Oregon