Diana Taylor
Born 1977, UK. Lives and works in London.
Education
2017-21 Practice based PhD researcher, Sheffield Hallam University, in collaboration with William Morris Gallery, London.
2008-10 M.F.A: Painting. Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2002-03 P.G.C.E: Secondary Art & Design, Institute of Education, London.
1996-99 B.A.(Hons) Fine Art: Painting. Bath Spa University College, Bath.
Awards/Residencies
2020 18th Street Arts Centre, L.A. (September) Artist in Residence
2018 CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Artist in Residence (April and September)
2015 Modern Art Oxford, ‘Love is Enough’, Warhol/ Morris show, curated by Jeremy Deller
2015 Shortlisted for the Converse X Dazed Emerging Artist Award
2012 CCA, Spain, Artist in Residence
2011 East London Printmakers, Artist in Residence
2011 Abbey Scholarship in Painting, The British School at Rome, Italy
Rosa Lee Travel Award, Abbey Awards, Italy
2010 Graduate Printmaking Prize Winner, Jealous Print Studios
Commissions
2015 Royal Academy of Arts & English Heritage Architectural Hoardings Project
2012 Exterior wall painting and young persons workshop, Ljusne Arts Centre, Sweden
2010 Hogarth International, Advertising Agency, London (wall paintings)
Solo Exhibitions
2018-9 Can We Hold on? Centre of Contemporary Art, Mallorca, Spain
2014 Wonders of the System, CCA, Mallorca, Spain
2011 Alpha Beta, R O O M, London, UK
2010 Climbing, Falling, Intervention Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 The Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2019. APT Gallery, London
2019 The Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2019. Huddersfield Art Gallery.
A Strange Weave of Time and Space, Site Gallery Project Space, Sheffield, and Project Space Plus, Lincoln,
curated by Jeanine Griffin.
Al-Dente, on www.skelf.org.uk curated by John Walter.
Attempts to Escape, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus, curated by Maria Stathi.
Re–Assemble, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, curated by Rosalind Davis.
2018 Wells Art Contemporary, Somerset
2017/8 Like the Lines of a Hand, Paper Gallery, Manchester & Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2017 Threads, Taking up Needles and Yarn. The Centre for Recent Drawing, London, curated by AleeChay.
2015 Screen, Turps Gallery, London, curated by Ben Deakin and Emma Elia-Shaul.
2014 DrAwn 2Gether, Galerie im Gartenhaus, Munich, Germany
Saatchi Print editions, Jealous Print Award 2013
2013 Carousel, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2012 Ex-Roma III, APT Gallery, London, UK
Collaborators 3, R O O M, London, UK
The Open West, Gloucester, UK
2011 The Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
Two Peacocks, Gallery North, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
Re-Make, Re-Model, Chelsea Future Space, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London, UK
Volta 7, Basel, Switzerland
Fountains and Drains, British School at Rome, Italy
The Producers, British School at Rome, Italy
Fabricecstasy, Studio 52, Hoxton Square, London, UK
Hybird, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK