About
Shefon N. Taylor, Interdisciplinary 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.
CV/Resume
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Where the Image Falters, Elizabeth Denison Hatch Gallery, Wilmington, DE
This is Not All of Me, Warner Gallery, Middletown, DE
2025 The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2024 Archival Encounters, John William Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2021 Illusions of Beauty, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Group Exhibitions
2026 We the People, Rockwood Museum, Wilmington, DE
2025 Givin’ You the Best That I Got, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Echoes in Matter, Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Everywhere I Go Is Home, Haugabrooks on Auburn, Atlanta, GA
2024 Miami Art Fair, John William Gallery, Miami, FL
I’ve Been Here Before, Sybil Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Bird’s Eye View, The Dahlia, Wilmington, DE
2023 ARC/Radius, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2022 Group Exhibition, Buckhead Art & Co., Atlanta, GA
2021 Paper Portraits, Elizabeth Denison & Hatch Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Black Women’s History, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Untitled, ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Local & Famous, Toni & Stuart B. Young Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Residencies & Fellowships
2026 Artist-in-Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2025 Artist Research Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Wilmington, DE
2022 Artist-in-Residence, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Spotify Free Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA
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