TAYLOR BALKISSOON 

taylor.balkissoon@gmail.com
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b 1991 Toronto, ON
Lives and works in New Orleans and NYC

EDUCATION

2014 BFA - Major: Photography - University of Colorado Denver

CURATORIAL

2022
Uptown Laundry NYC - Climate Control Projects - New York City, NY

2021
Founder - Uptown Laundry - Prospect 5 - Beaubourg Theatre - 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 - organizer, curator and participating artist - 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


2022
Uptown Laundry - Climate Control Projects - New York City, NY

2021
Uptown Laundry - Beaubourg Theatre - 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 - Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art - Boulder, CO

Touchy Feely - Pirate Gallery - Denver, CO

2015         
The Diaspora Of Being - Dar Al-kalima College, Bethlehem, Palestine

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

GRANTS

2022 Creative Response Relief Program Discretionary Grant (nominated) - Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA
2021  National Displaced Workers Grant (Southern Solidarity donations coordinator) - Job1, New Orleans, LA


RESIDENCIES


2016
The Ranch In Association With CUAC (Central Utah Arts Center) - Ephraim, UT
Platte Forum - Lead Artist Summer Youth Program - Denver, CO

PRESS

https://artinnewyorkcity.com/2022/04/25/uptown-laundry-art-for-the-revolution/

https://www.wwno.org/tags/lucky-art-fair

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/