taylor barnes, Holding On To Elsewhere, Installation view, April 2022.
LIVES AND WORKS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.
taylor barnes was born in 1993 in Austin, Texas. In 2019, she received an MFA in Fibers from the University of North Texas, where she earned two BFAs in 2015 for both Ceramics and Fibers and served as a Teaching Assistant and Fellow. She has exhibited solo shows at Erin Cluley Gallery, UNT on the Square, Denton Black Film Festival, 500X Gallery, and at Big Medium in Austin, TX, running concurrently with her outdoor installation for Round 14 of the Cage Match Project outside The Museum of Human Achievement.
barnes has received awards such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arch and Anne Giles Kimrough Fund Award in 2021, the Sylvia Hougland Emerging Artist Award for Make Art With Purpose 2020, and multiple art focused scholarships throughout her education. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Dallas Contemporary and Big Medium in the form of digitally recorded artist talks, and in publications such as Glasstire, KERA, and The Dallas Morning News. barnes currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Artist’s CV >>>