Curriculum Vitae

Education

1997 Master of Fine Arts, Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale, NY
1985 Bachelor of Science in Education (Magna Cum Laude), Tufts University, Medford, MA
1984 Diploma of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions & Commissions

2010

collaborative, Davis, Cherubini, Samsøn, Boston, MA

2009

boardroom no.1, Horton Gallery, NYC, NY
In Contention, Davis/Cherubini, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA

2008

N W rk Ab t, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2007

2006

Farmer's Daughter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA - see exhibition

2005

rose-tinted; commission from the Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
Taylor Davis: Recent Work, RISD: School of Architecture, Providence, RI

2004

I.C.A. Artist's Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2003

Taylor Davis: Sculpture, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA

2002

Taylor Davis: Sculpture, Triple Candie, NYC, NY

2001

Taylor Davis: New Work, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA

1998

The Exquisite Cannibal, Bakalar Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions

2009

What Matters, curator susan Stoops, Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
SUNDOWN, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
Without Walls, Museum 52, NY, NY
A Relationship Left For Dead on the Lower East Side, Curator Bill Previdi, Cuchifritos, NY, NY

2008

Begin Again Right Back Here, Curator B. Wurtz, White Columns NY, NY
Thank you for Coming, Triple Candie, 2001 to 2008, Triple Candie NY NY
History, Use, & Borrowed Landscape, Curator Nancy Shaver, John Davis Gallery Hudson, NY
VES Visiting Faculty 2008-2009, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

2007

Taylor Davis, Incident Report, Hudson NY. Curator Nancy Shaver
Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Organized by the Whitney Museum
Coercive Atmospherics, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn NY. Curator David Hunt

2006

Selections Inaugural Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, ICA, Boston, MA
Wild Girls , Exit Art, New York, NY
Cady Noland Approximately, Triple Candie, Harlem NY

2005

rose-tinted; Sculpture of Taylor Davis, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
Taylor Davis, Recent Work, RISD: School of Architecture, Providence, RI

2004

[Being] before UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY
SouthEnders, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Taylor Davis & Elsbeth Deser, Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
Arranged Marriages; outer spaces, Chicago Arts Council, Chicago, IL

2000

Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Recipients, Chapel Gallery, Boston, MA
Selections, Bakalar Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1999

Taylor Davis and Jill Slosberg-Ackerman, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA

1998

Material Force, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1997

MIX: Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film and Video Festival, NYC, NY
Work, Taylor Davis and Elsbeth Deser, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

1996

Close to Home, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Traveling Scholar, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1995

In Making it Actual, Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
Loose Ends, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA

Grants & Fellowships

2009 Anonymous Was A Woman
2007 Association of International Art Critics (AICA), New England Chapter, Best Solo Commercial Gallery Exhibition, Boston, MA
2003 St. Botolph Foundation Grant, Boston, MA
2002 Best Show of Emerging Artist, Association of International Art Critics, Boston, MA
2001 Artist Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1999 Artist Grant in Sculpture, Massachusetts Cultural Council
1997 Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1996 Traveling Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1988 Drawing Finalist, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program

Academic Affiliations

2008-09

Visiting Faculty, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2003-present

Faculty, Co-chair, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College

1999-Present

Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1999-Present

Visiting Artist:
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Rutgers University, Brandeis University, University of Massachusetts, University of Ohio, University of Oregon, Art Institute of Boston,
SUNY Purchase

2002

Adjunct Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA