2017, clay, paint, incense, variable dimensions
installation view,
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
installation at La Criée, Rennes
2017, acrylic paint, cotton, CPVC, plaster, polymer clay,
165 x 100 x 15 cm
(Two Stripes on a Curve with a Lavender Dot),
2017, acrylic paint, cotton, CPVC,
plaster, polymer clay, 120 x 100 x 15 cm
(Body Haze) XI and XIII, 2016,
aluminum, acrylic enamel, epozy resin,
polystyrene, 180 x 45 x 15 cm each
installation view, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
wood, paint, 180 x 100 x 3cm
double-sided digital print in light box,
300 x 1200 x 16 cm
double-sided digital print in light box,
300 x 1200 x 16 cm
wood, plaster, brass, paper, ink, epoxy
clay, acrylic paint, variable dimensions
wood, plaster, brass, paper, ink, epoxy
clay, acrylic paint, variable dimensions
wood, plaster, brass, paper, ink, epoxy
clay, acrylic paint, variable dimensions
installation view, MuHKA, Antwerp
wood, paint, polyner clay, printed matter, cloth,
variable dimensions
wood, paint, polyner clay, printed matter, cloth,
variable dimensions
2009, wood, paint, video, variable dimensions
Zin Taylor
born in Calgary, Alberta
BFA, Alberta College of Art, Calgary
MFA, University of Guelph, Guelph
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Parallel Wands, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
Cut Flowers, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
about the exhibition
A Dove on the Beach: a piece of cloth to relax upon is a void to stage your thoughts , FRAC île-de-france/Le Plateau - Vitrine, Paris
Creative Writing, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Five Units of Haze, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus, Portikus, Frankfurt
A Segment of Translation - In Light of 25 Years, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Three Ideas About Haze, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Karl's Body, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna
The Tangental Zig-Zag, Kunstraum, London
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7), Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 6), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5), Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island
Parrot Soup, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
The Ceremony and The Spirit, (with Roe Ethridge), La Loge, Brussels
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 2), Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 1), MuHKA, Antwerp
The Flute of Sub, The Artist's Institute, New York
Growth, KIOSK, Ghent
The Five Arms of Supportico, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
The Units, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
The Bakery of Blok (first arrangement), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis
The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
The Bakery of Blok, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
The Flute of Sub, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentaty recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net Station in Dawson City, Yukon, Establissement d'en Face Projects, Brussels; YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto; Presentation House, Vancouver
Who Named the Days, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Nub, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
The Spiders (collaborative project with Damian Moppett), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Les Bons Sentiments, 19th Prix Ricard, Fondation Ricard, Paris
Belonging to a Place, Scrap Metal, Toronto
Répétition, Villa Empain, Brussels
Hybrid Objects, L’inconnue, Montreal
L’esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Le louvre, Paris
AXOLOTLISM, Nogueras|Blanchard Gallery, Madrid
Out of Line, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Interprete, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
The Tools, Root Division, San Franciso
The Way of the Shovel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Storytelling, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
IN THE HOUSE OF MR & MRS, Temporary Gallery, Köln
An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Dawson Gold, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
A Handful of Dust, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
Stoppages, Hessel Museum of Art - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Manufacture, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Ex-Libris, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels
We Don't Need to Need to Do This, MOT International, London
Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Architectooralooral, 1857, Oslo
Truimphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery,Vancouver
The Archeologists, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
Dream Machines: Objects and Physical Phenomena (A Reciprocal Love Story), Beaubourg, Brussels
Transformers, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Architecture of Survival, Komplot, Brussels
Ideas of North, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
18-Beckett, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
Habitat, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
18-Beckett, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto
Arm in Arm, (collaborative project with Allison Hrabluik), Or Gallery, Vancouver
Dedicated to you but you weren't listening, The Power Plant, Toronto
Switch, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo
Publish or Perish, Open Space, Victoria
Soundtracks: Re-Play, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Interaccess, Toronto; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Secondhand, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Zin Taylor
by James Carl (review)
Border Crossings, issue 160, volume 41, number 2
visit (bordercrossingsmag.com)
Zin Taylor at Susan Hobbs Gallery
by Dan Adler (review)
Artforum, December 2018
Lavender Glass
by Dieter Roelstraete and Zin Taylor (monograph)
Mousse Publishing and Southern Alberta Art Gallery/Milan and Lethbridge, 2018
Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface
by Zin Taylor with Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett
(12" vinyl w/leporello & essay)
Shelter Press and Westfälischer Kunstverein/Rennes and Münster, 2018
An Interview with Zin Taylor
by Becky Rynor (interview)
NGC Magazine, 17 October 2016
Void Flowers
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Bywater Bros. Editions, 2016
Citizen Palm
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Black Pages, Vienna, 2015
The Ceremony and The Spirit
by Roe Ethridge and Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Karma, New York, 2014
Zin Taylor: The Tangental Zig-Zag
by Letitia Calin (review)
Le Salon, June 2014
Zin Taylor: The Tangental Zig-Zag
by Beth Bramich (review)
this is tomorrow, July 2014
The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)
by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh (review)
art agenda, March 2014
The Way of the Shovel
by Dieter Roelstraete (exhibition catalogue)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2013
Salon der Angst: Zin Taylor
by Vanessa Joan Müller (blog entry)
Kunsthalle Wien, 2014
Lichen Voices/Stripe and Dots
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Sternberg Press, Berlin/Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, 2013
Palms of the Fog
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2013
Cane, Ring. Bracelet, Finger, Cup
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Galerie VidalCuglietta/Supportico Lopez/Jessica Bradley, 2012
Melanchoptopia
by Esperanza Rosales (review)
Frieze, January/February 2012
Zin Taylor
by Saelen Twerdy (review)
Border Crossings, Fall 2012
Growth
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Sternberg Press/Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Berlin, 2011
Taylor Made: Zin Taylor and the Story of Form
by Dieter Roelstraete (article)
Mousse Magazine, February/March 2011
Plants Do Things
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Bywater Bros. Editions, 2010
The Nine Fingers of Malakoff
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Pavilion Projects, Paris, 2010
How Zin Taylor Fits The Practice of Contemporary Sculpture
by EC Woodley (article)
Border Crossings, Winter 2009
Zin Taylor at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
by Dan Adler (review)
C Magazine, Autumn 2009
The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit
by Michael Paulson (review)
Artforum.com, July 2009
Crystal Ship
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Bywater Bros. Editions, 2008
Who Named the Days?
by Dan Adler (review)
Artforum.com, March 2007
Idea of North
by Doreen Mende (review)
C Magazine, Summer 2007
Idea of North
by Jennifer Allen (review)
Artforum, April 2007
Nook
by Zin Taylor (artist's book)
Presentation House, Vancouver/YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2007
Art that entertains. Now there's a concept
by RM Vaughn (review)
The National Post, 9 April 2005
Exploring Collaboration
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 5 April 2005
Dedicated to you but you weren't listening
by Reid Shier (exhibition catalogue)
The Power Plant, 2005
Soundtracks: Re-Play
by Barbara Fischer (exhibition catalogue)
Edmonton Art Gallery, 2003
Flower Called Nowhere
by Damian Moppett (catalogue)
Artspace, Peterborough, 2003
PHTCPY #2
by Janis Demkiw (review)
Broken Pencil Magazine, #22, 2003
We Got Art
by David Balzer (review)
Eye Magazine, 25 January 2003