About

Camilla Taylor (b. 1981, Hayward, California) was raised in Provo, Utah, and is based in Los Angeles, California. In 2025, they presented Unkindness at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles, an exhibition examining mystical transformation through destruction. The exhibition included a sculpture that survived the complete burning of Taylor’s home and studio in the Eaton Fire earlier that year, embedding material endurance and change directly into the work.

Working across glass, printmaking, metal, fabric, and other materials, Taylor’s practice investigates interiority, the uncanny. The mortal body recurs as a central motif, explored both as a literal form and as a site of seduction and repulsion. Works such as Unrelenting, a cast glass sculpture depicting a human foot subjected to the forces of frostbite, reflect Taylor’s interest in vulnerability, endurance, and the thresholds where the body and mind transform under pressure.

Taylor is represented by Track 16 Gallery and Kanda & Oliveira Gallery.

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Education:    

BFA           2006 University of Utah, Salt Lake City

MFA           2011 California State University, Long Beach

Select Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions:
2024           The Knot, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2023           Dry Tree, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022           The Forest, Spring/Break Art Show solo booth with Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                   静かな 友達 (Quiet Friend), Kanda and Oliveira Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020           Your Words in My Mouth, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019           The Mirror’s Deception, site specific installation at a private residence, Los Angeles, CA
2018           BLACK, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
2017           Meager Form, Penny Contemporary, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
                   argument, exhibiting with Maxim, Marie Baldwin Gallery, Bel Air, CA
2016           Visiting Artist: Camilla Taylor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, CA
2015           Cipher, Prohibition Gallery, Culver City, CA
                   Waiting Shadows, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
                   These Limbs, LACC Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014           Camilla Taylor: A Conversation, CSUDH Gallery, Carson, CA
2013           Soma+Breath, exhibiting with Tim Musso, CBU Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
                   Verge, exhibiting with Rob Brown, CSULB USU Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2012           The Disagreement, GCAC, Santa Ana, CA
2011           This Gallery Used to be a Photo Studio (SGCI Grad. Student Fellowship), Boileau Hall, St. Louis, MO
                   The Crowd (MFA thesis exhibit), Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2009           Among Us (advancement show), Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2008           Far Below, Pravus Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2007           Solecist, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
                   Culpable, Trunk Space Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
                   The Self and the Shadow, Trunk Space Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2006           Invisible Coterie, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
                   Invisible Coterie, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Camilla and Elizabeth, Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ

Select Group Exhibitions:

2024           Deep Dark, Cicada Curatorial (cicadacuratorial.com), online                    exhibit
                   Communities West, V, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
                   HERE I CAN CREEP SMOOTHLY ON THE FLOOR, AND FIT IN                    THAT SMOOCH AROUND THE WALL, SO I CANNOT LOSE MY                    WAY, The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                   When the Summer Bullet Sings, Track 16 Gallery, Los                    Angeles, CA
2023           Multiple Intersections, Rod Briggs Memorial Gallery, Long Beach, CA
                   Communities West, V, Schoolhouse History and Art Center, Colstrip, MT
                   Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Brand Library and Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
                   Inventing an Absence, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
                   Small Encounters, RMPA Annual Conference, Spokane, WA
2022           My Body My Truth, Cobra Flute Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2021           Born Out of This, Woodbury Museum of Art, Orem, UT (virtual/online exhibit)
2020           We Are Here/Here We Are, Durden & Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                  What She Said, Ace 121 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hedges and Houses and Mothers and Children, I Like Your Work, virtual/online exhibit
2019           Continuant, Noysky Projects, Hollywood, CA
                  Other Voices, Woodbury Museum, Provo, UT
                  Didn’t you know what you were carrying on your back?, Rose Lux Gallery, Berlin, Germany
                  21, Booth Gallery, New York City, NY
                  Dreamhouse vs Punkhouse, plus Cathouse, Serious Topics,Inglewood, CA
                   Erotic Vulvic Phallic, Pøst Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018           BLOOM, Booth Gallery, New York City, NY
                   Holding 1/2 the Sky, Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
                   Noh Wave 2018, Noh Wave, Los Angeles, CA
                   Breaking the Mold, CM3, Walnut, CA
                   HEATWAVE, Noh Wave, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA
                   Paperworks: Refolded, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
                   Beautiful Women, Penny Contemporary, Hobart, Tasmania
                   Art&Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NYC
2017           With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                   Gentle and Cruel, Space 310, Los Angeles, CA
                   The Heart of the Story, Tokyo, JAPAN
                   Communities West III, Exit Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2016           The Button Show, Rush Philanthropic, New York, NY
                   Women of the New Contemporary, Brandstater Gallery, Riverside, CA
                   Megafauna, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Eagle Rock, CA
                   EnGendered InEquity, LACE, Hollywood, CA
                   Spaceland III, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
                   Shift and Fade, BLAM, Los Angeles, CA
                   The Feels, Curve Line Space, Los Angeles, CA
                   Not Alone, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2015           Edition #1, Penny Contemporay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
                   Diverted Destruction, Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
                   The Inaugural Show, God Hates Robots, Salt Lake City, UT
                   Nude Survey One, Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
2014           In Our Nature, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (3-person exhibit)
                   21: The End of an Era, Prohibition Gallery, Culver City, CA
                   Paperless Society, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA
                   It’s Alive!, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
                   FACE FIRST: Portraits, C. Feign Jr. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                   Art & Nature, AR4T Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
                   Unexpected Activities, Angel's Ink Gallery, San Pedro, CA
                   Smile Isle, Daniel Rolnik Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
                   American Printmaking, Triennial of Graphic Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
                   Then & Now, Dutzi Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2013           Art & Nature, AR4T Gallery, Laguna, CA
                   Small Works on Paper, Popup Projects Gallery, Pasadena, CA
                   Newton’s 3rd, F+ Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
                   Cloud 9, Trunkspace Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
                   LA Art Show, LAPS Booth, Los Angeles, CA
                   Assorted Delights Portfolio, SGCI, Milwaukee, WI
                   Periphery, AR4T Gallery, Laguna, CA