Born 1972
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

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Future Promise, James Cohan Gallery, NY, NY 
2019 The Needle’s Eye, Zidoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg
2017 The Backwards Forward, James Cohan Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Savage Root, Musée Historique Chateau de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland
2013 Surface Tension, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Foreclosed, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Un/Inhabited, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (traveling to Atlanta, GA)
2009 Alison Elizabeth Taylor, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2008 Alison Elizabeth Taylor, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Idyll, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Public Project
2017 Reclamation, Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, New York, NY, permanent installation

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today,  Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Reflections on Perceptions, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
We are Family, New York Academy of Art Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
2020  Expanding the Narrative: Recent Acquisitions, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
To Paint is to Love Again, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Really, Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC, NY
2019 Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Bodies at Work curated by Corinne May Botz, Baxter St at CCNY, New York, NY
20th Anniversary Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Makeshift curated by Michelle Graebner, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Pardon My Language, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
Personal Space, Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art, Bentonville, AR
2016 I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Land Escapes, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Intimisms, James Cohan, New York, NY
2015 Crafted: Objects in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Winter in America, Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, NY
I am a lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2014 First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona., Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Branching Out: Trees as Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Escape from New York; New Garde Now!, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Fifth Season, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Stationary Realms, University of Arkansas, FNAR, Fayetteville, AR
Des hommes et la forêt, Musée Historique Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland
Re-presenting Representation VIII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
BEYOND EARTH ART: Contemporary Artists and the Environment, Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Shooting the moon in the eye, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Against the Grain, Mint Museum, NC travelling to Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Campaign, C24 gallery, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, New York, NY
Object Fiction, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Bending the Mirror, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Simulacrum, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
I am you and you are me, perhaps, Galería Juan Silió, Santander, Spain
2011 Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
American Gothic, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Bitches Brew, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, curated by Marhall Price, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Libros de cuentos, Puerto de Santander, Santander, Spain, curated by Kevin Power
2009 Young Americans, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Supramundane, Ambach and Rice Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Under the Influence, Girl’s Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2007 MASK, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 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
Untold Tales, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
John Yau +3, Volume Gallery, New York, NY
Hungry Eyes, curated by Ali Subotnik, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2003 Lead Poisoning, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Le Dernier Cri, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Godfrey Daniels School of Charm, Track 16 Gallery, LA, CA curated by Georganne Deen
High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Superheroes, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Spring Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art, Bentonville, AR
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH

Awards
Prizewinner, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
Publishing Residency Lower Eastside Printshop
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program
Herbert S. Germaise Fellowship for painting and drawing
Beach Fund Scholarship, Columbia University
Merit Scholarship, Art Center College of Design
Art Center at Night Scholarship