Taylor Renee Aldridge

In residence
Winter 2020

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a writer and an independent curator who has dedicated much of her early career to documenting inequities that exist throughout the “art world.” In 2015, along with art critic Jessica Lynne, she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. As Taylor continues to examine dynamics of power and ethics in the arts, she is concurrently pivoting toward queries that concern performance, pleasure, Blackness, and queering of the sacred. 

In 2019, she curated an exhibition of work by choreographer Jennifer Harge at the Detroit Artist Market, entitled FLY | DROWN. Also in 2019, Taylor co-curated the program series, Material Detroit, which featured a range of performances, and symposia that took place in the City of Detroit. Taylor has held a curatorial position at the Detroit Institute of Arts where she co-curated the exhibition "Making Home: Contemporary Works from the DIA," which included work by Carrie Mae Weems, Charles McGee, Lorna Simpson, Tyree Guyton and Jane Hammond. She has worked at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and The National Museum of American History as a Goldman Sachs Junior Fellow. Taylor is the 2016 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and has written for Art21, ARTNews, ContemporaryAnd, Detroit MetroTimes, SFMoMA’s Open Space and Hyperallergic. Taylor is a recent recipient of the 2019 Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. She has earned a M.L.A from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and B.A from Howard University with a concentration in Art History.

EDUCATION
M.L.A in Museum Studies – Harvard University
B.A in Art History – Howard University

Curator's Website:
https://www.taylorrenee.info