taylor.balkissoon@gmail.com
︎ what_are_the_wild_waves_saying
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b 1991 Toronto,ON
Lives and works in New Orleans, LA
EDUCATION
2014 BFA - Major: Photography - University of Colorado Denver - Denver, CO
CURATORIAL
2023
Free Palestine Fundraiser - Nola Artist for Palestine - New Orleans, LA
2022
Listen When You Look - Uptown Laundry - No Pulp Records - New Orleans, LA
The High One - Uptown Laundry - No Pulp Records - New Orleans, LA
Harlem Pride x Uptown Laundry - Museum of the City of New York - New York City, NY
Uptown Laundry NYC - Climate Control Projects - New York City, NY
2021
Uptown Laundry - Prospect 5 - Beaubourg Theater - New Orleans, LA
Southern Solidarity Art Auction - The Front - New Orleans, LA
2020
Growing up And Burning Down - 912 Julia - New Orleans, LA
Southern Solidarity Art Auction - (online) - 912 Julia - New Orleans, LA
2019
Lucky Art Fair - The Lucky Inn - New Orleans, LA
2017
Now More Than Always (Gimme Gimme The Money
Please Please I Want The Money Please) - Gildar Gallery - Denver CO
What Are The Wild Waves Saying - Dateline Gallery - Denver, CO
Dateline:36 - Dateline Gallery - Denver, CO
2016
Bodacioussss - Museum Of Contemporary Art - Denver CO
Eternal Returns - Museum Of Contemporary Art (Open Shelf Library) - Denver CO
Grand Opening - The Temple Studios - Denver, CO
Dateline 027 - Dateline Gallery - Denver, CO
Bodacioussss 2.0 - Dateline Gallery - Denver, CO
2015
Open Shelf Library - Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver CO
Deco Slut - Gildar Gallery, Denver CO (Artist And Co-curator)
Dateline: 011 Brooklyn Collage Collective - Dateline, Denver CO
Known Unknowns - Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver CO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Stop the World and Let me Off - Dateline - Denver, CO
2021 The View from Nowhere - Petshop Gallery - Omaha, NE
2019 our world is only the branch on which the rope is hanging - Lucky Art Fair - New Orleans, LA
2018 Six Finger Dog Tooth Meringue Pie - Aquarium Gallery - New Orleans, LA
2015 Bananas - Dateline - Denver CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Uptown Laundry - Beaubourg Theater - New Orleans, LA
Artist Showcase - 912 Julia - New Orleans, LA
Southern Solidarity Art Fundraiser - The Front - New Orleans, LA
2020
Growing Up and Burning Down - 912 Julia - New Orleans, LA
Taylor B - Yes Ma'am Projects - Denver, CO
2017
Screenings At Situations - Situations - New York, NY
Nurture Art 20th Anniversary Auction - New York, NY
Cabinet - David B. Smith Gallery - Denver, CO
Denver Collage Club - Alto Gallery - Denver, CO
2016
Transforming Milk Into Milk - Redline - Denver, CO
Summer Games 2016 - Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO
Touchy Feely - Pirate Gallery - Denver, CO
2015
Resolution - Emmanuel Gallery, Denver CO
Deco Slut - Gildar Gallery, Denver CO
Denver Collage Collective - Robert Anderson Gallery, Denver CO
Love Is Love - Emmanuel Gallery, Denver CO
RESIDENCIES
2016 The Ranch In Association With CUAC (Central Utah Arts Center) - Ephraim, UT
Platte Forum - Lead Artist Summer Youth Program - Denver, CO
GRANTS
2022 Creative Response Relief Program Discretionary Grant - Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA
2021 National Displaced Workers Grant (Southern Solidarity donations coordinator) - Job1, New Orleans, LA
Press
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_494ebc1a-0b7e-5031-ae00-34cbac83f411.html
http://theknow.denverpost.com/2017/06/15/black-art-gildar-gallery-denver/147916/
http://artillerymag.com/now-more-than-always/
http://www.westword.com/arts/100-colorado-creatives-30-taylor-balkissoon-7599614
http://www.5280.com/events/artlab-pov/
http://www.westword.com/arts/denver-first-friday-gallery-openings-june-2-gildar-lowbrow-kidrobot-9107983
http://www.westword.com/arts/galleries-new-shows-at-museo-de-las-americas-pon-pon-cpac-and-dateline-8405860
http://www.westword.com/arts/review-catch-transforming-milk-into-milk-and-blow-up-chad-person-at-redline-8326881
https://www.artslant.com/9/articles/show/42377
http://www.westword.com/arts/love-is-love-blends-art-and-activism-at-emmanuel-gallery-opening-today-7225670
https://303magazine.com/2016/06/grand-opening-temple-denver-art-studios/