About
Shefon N. Taylor, Visual Artist and Writer
My work emerges from an ongoing engagement with fragmentation not only as subject matter, but as method and metaphor. I am drawn to the severed image, the partial form, the interrupted memory, the things that resist completion. Through collage and sculpture, I work with materials that have already lived lives, such as printed matter, faded images, scraps once touched and forgotten, and allow them to reconstitute themselves in new, often precarious configurations.
At the center of my practice is the concept of rememory—a return that is not linear, not necessarily welcomed, but insistently present. I approach memory as something spectral, disruptive, and deeply embodied. It shows up as rupture, repetition, and refusal. My process is slow and gestural, layered with as much personal reckoning as with conceptual inquiry.
I do not seek to restore what has been lost. Instead, I ask what it means to live with the fragments, to allow them to speak, to assemble a form that might tremble but still hold.
This practice is both a reckoning and a release. It is my way of standing inside the incompleteness —of making space for what does not resolve and learning to live alongside it.
May 2 - 30, 2025
The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole, The Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
CV/Resume
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Echoes in Matter, Group Exhibition, Felicity R. '“Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Everywhere I Go Is Home, Group Exhibition, Haugabrooks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole, Solo Exhibition, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2024
Miami Art Fair, Group Exhibition, John William Gallery, Miami, FL
Archival Encounters, Solo Exhibition, John William Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Bird’s Eye View, Group Exhibition, The Dahlia, Wilmington, DE
2023
ARC Residency / Radius, Group Exhibition, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2022
Group Exhibition, Buckhead Art & Co., Atlanta, GA
2021
Paper Portraits, Three Person Exhibition, Elizabeth Denison & Hatch Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Illusions of Beauty, Solo Exhibition, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Black Women’s History, Group Exhibition, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Untitled, Group Exhibition, ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Local & Famous, Toni & Stuart B. Young 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 Selected Resident, Wilmington Alliance, Wilmington, DE
2023 Grantee, ArtNoir – Jar of Love
2024 Selected Artist Research Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
Press & Features
BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Claim Black Stories, Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart
Unattainable Luxuries: Inequities in Fashion, Essence Magazine
Black Collagists: The Book, Teri Henderson
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