About

Taylor McKimens grew up in a rural desert border town in the Imperial Valley of Southern California, where he developed a distinct folk visual accent informed primarily by printed imagery and comics. Balancing diametrical opposites, employing humor and sincerity, and often disregarding distinctions between drawing, painting and installation, he transforms the most quotidian subjects into biting social commentary and poetic surrealist visions of American decay. He has been living and working in NYC until a recent return west to Los Angeles.

Born in 1976 and studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, Taylor has exhibited internationally in both gallery and museum shows, and has work in many prominent collections. Select solo exhibitions include Deitch Projects, The Hole and Art Rock at Rockefeller Center in New York; The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan; Dio Horia in Mykonos, Greece; Studio d'Arte Raffaelli in Trento, Italy; Galerie Zurcher in Paris, France; Loyal Gallery in Stolckholm, Sweden. Select group exhibitions include PS1 MoMa, Deitch Projects, The Hole, The Journal Gallery, White Columns and The Neuberger Museum in New York; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece; MACRO Museum in Rome, Italy; The Garage Center in Moscow, Russia; ARoS Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark; Portugal Arte 10 in Lisbon, Portugal; Peres Projects in Berlin, Germany; The Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design, The Riverside Art Museum and The Hole LA in CA.