Mike Taylor is the consummate artists' artist receiving cult status for his work in artists' books, zines, prints, and comics. Taylor specializes in critiquing the relationship between popular culture and the corporate state. His work spans the scope of self-published comics and zines, evolving to multi-layered prints and hand-bound artists' books, and later comprising works on
canvas and painted sculptural forms -- each media tailored to the narrative presented.
Education
2000 BFA, University of Florida
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Condensed Flesh, Idio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Bad Credit Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 No/Future Booklyn Artist Alliance
2011 True/False Film Festival Venue Design, Columbia, MO.
2008 GlitterDiscoSynthesizerNightSchool Stairwell Gallery, Providence, RI
2007 Animal Science, BasFisher Invitational, Miami
2005 Santa Claus, Condoleezza Rice, and a Donkey, AS220, Providence RI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Year One Cunsthaus at Tempus Projects, Tampa, Fl.
2017 Portrait, Unisex Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014-2018, PS1 NY Art Book Fair
2014 PVD TLA, Studio 1504, Abu Dhabi
2013 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dude, Booklyn Artist Alliance
2011 Out of Print, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami
2010 DCG Open David Castillo Gallery, Miami
2009 This is a Comic Book, curated by Jimi Payne/ Colleen Grennan, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, Oh.
2009 Rubles, Ben Russell, Chicago
2009 Dark Fair, Bas Fisher Invitational Booth, Cologne, Germany
2008 Shadow out of Time, curated by Stairwell Gallery, 808 Gallery at Boston University
2008 New Obstructions, co-curated with Neal Walsh, Mercantile Block Bldg, Providence, RI
2007 Printed Matter 2, Giant Robot NYC
2007 These Bagels are Gnarly, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Wunderground: Providence 1995- Present, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2006 Dirty Hands, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Copyist Conspiracy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/ Needles and Pens, San Francisco
2005 The 1000 Arms of Industry and Boredom: Mike Taylor and Caroline Paquita, Needles and Pens, San Francisco
2004 Paper Rodeo/ Beautiful Losers, The Mockbee, Cincinnati
2004 Shelter AS220 project space, Providence, RI
2003 Paper Rodeo, Space 1026, Philadelphia
Selected Publications
2018 In Christ There is No East or West, Fantagraphics Books
2017 Best American Comics, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2017 Osceola Godspeed, artist book, ed. of 23
2016 Love Song, artist book, ed. Of 15
2016 Unlike, artist book, ed. of 12
2015 Quand L'Art Investit La Ville CMDE, France
2015 Hammer of the Dogs, artist book, ed. of 14
2014 The Bigger Chill artist book, ed. of 8
2014 No/Future artist book, ed. of 3
2014 “Lost Boys of the South”, Periscope Magazine, #1
2014 “This Can't Happen Again” Smoke Signal magazine
2012 Vice Guide to Syria
2011 Outpost Journal, #1-#3
2010 The Lifted Brow literary anthology, Brisbane, Australia
2006 Live Through This: NY Art 2005, Deitch projects
2005 Hit it or Quit it #18, “Medical Abnormalities” comic
2002 Re/Fuse magazine (Holland) interview
2001-2006 Paper Rodeo comics magazine
1994- present Late-Era Clash zine
