About
In creation, we travel a memory.
Shefon N. Taylor (b. 1988, Wilmington, DE) is an interdisciplinary artist interrogating themes of rememory, the shape of interiority, and the intimate pursuit of belonging.
Her choice of collage as a primary medium is a fascination with its impulse, delicacy, and compromise. As a guide in concept and construction, she points to Toni Morrison's definition of rememory, “as in recollection and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, the family and the population of the past.”
She connects to a familial history through the archive to engage its willingness to become something new and an effort to amplify a particular way of life in observation of the Black vernacular. This process carves a path toward the understanding of the present, the investigation of the past, and the possibilities of an imagined future.
She cites artists and scholars such as Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, bell hooks, and Tina Campt as influences on her work.
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Selected Exhibitions
2019 Group Exhibition, Toni & Stuart B. Young Gallery, Wilm, DE
2019 Two-Person Exhibition, Oliver Evans Gallery, Wilm, DE
2021 Group Exhibition, ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Solo Exhibition, Oliver Evans Gallery, Wilm, DE
2021 Three-Person Exhibition, Delaware Contemporary, Wilm, DE
2022 Group Exhibition, Buckhead Art & Co., Atlanta, GA
2023 Artist in Residence Cohort Exhibition, Delaware Contemporary Museum, Wilmington, DE
2023 Solo Exhibition, MKT Place Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2024 Solo Exhibition, John Williams Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Grants & Awards
2021 Selected Resident, TILA Studios x IAF Digital Artist Residency, Atlanta, GA
2022 Selected Resident, Spotify Free Studio Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Selected Resident, Delaware Contemporary Artist-In-Residence, Wilmington, DE
2023 Grantee, ArtNoir – Jar of Love
2023 Selected Resident, Wilmington Alliance, Wilmington, DE
Press & Features
Welcome to My Crib. It’s Rented, New York Times Magazine
4 Emerging BIPOC Women Artists You Need to Know, Grazia Magazine
Collage Exploring Femininity and Womanhood, Create! Magazine
On Staying Curious Throughout Your Practice, We Are Made Studios
Adobe and Black Archive x Living Archive Series, Adobe
Interior Maximalism: How These Women Creators Are Bringing a New Perspective to Art, Edition ModLux
On Staying Curious Throughout Your Practice, We Are Made Studios Podcast