Josephine Taylor
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Josephine Taylor is an American artist known for large narrative drawings.
Taylor was born in 1977[1] in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended Brown University and The University of Colorado at Boulder, where she received a BA in Religion and East Indian Languages (Hindi/Sanskrit).[2] She completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.[2] Taylor was awarded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award in 2004,[3][4][5] was included in Bay Area Now IV at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,[6] and was included in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2004.[7][8] Taylor's work has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[9] the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[10] and 21C Museum.[11] She lives and works in San Francisco and has shown with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2003.[2][12] Taylor has taught Drawing/Painting at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels at Stanford University,[13] UC Berkeley, The San Francisco Art Institute,[6] and California College of the Arts.[2]
