SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 PULL: into new. Martha's Contemporary, Austin, TX. (solo)
2023 A Day In A Cage. Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX.
2022 154 Contemporary African Art Fair. Harlem, NY. (solo)
2022 Holding Onto Elsewhere. Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas. (solo)
2020 Pressure. Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas. (solo)
2020 (un)box. Cage Match Project. Museum of Human Achievement. Austin, Texas. (solo)
2019 Sacred Spaces. Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, Texas. (solo)
2019 Who’s Next? MFA Exhibition. UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX. (solo)
2019 My Genesis. Denton Black Film Festival, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX. (solo)
2019 Read My Mind. 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX. (solo)
2019 Converging Transparencies: A Black History Month Exhibition. Dallas, TX.
2018 Summer Expo. Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2018 Full Circle. Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2018 Interlude. Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX.
2017 57th Annual Voertman Juried Student Exhibition. UNT Lightwell Gallery, Denton, TX.
2017 College Expo. 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2017 Temporary Collective. 500 Singleton, Dallas, TX.
2017 #Melaninpoppin’ Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2017 #WIP. Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX.
2016 Field Notes. UNT Lightwell Gallery, Denton, TX.
2016 SEVEN: Fibers. ARTROOM Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX.
2016 Making Waves: Moving Minds. Gallery 76102, Ft. Worth, TX.
2015 Your Daily Dose of Fibers. UNT Lightwell Gallery, Denton, TX.
2014 Stillness… Voertman’s Gallery, Denton, TX.
2014 Ceramic Plates Show. UNT Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX.
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2022-present Studio Manager, Voorhes Photography, Austin, Texas
2021-2022 Studio Coordinator, META (Facebook) Open Arts, Austin, Texas
2019-2021 Studio Assistant, Deborah Roberts Studio, Austin, Texas
2018-2019 Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Fibers, UNT College of Visual Arts & Design Area Assistant, 2019 Texas Fashion Collection, UNT College of Visual Arts & Design
2017 Teaching Assistant, Design 1, UNT College of Visual Arts & Design
2017 Area Assistant, Design 1, UNT College of Visual Arts & Design
WORKSHOPS + LECTURES
2023 Threading History: An Artist's Reflection on Textile Art with taylor barnes. University of Texas San Antonio.
2022 Southern Methodist University Division of Art Lecture: taylor barnes, Dallas, TX.
2022 Texas Women’s University Artist Lecture: taylor barnes, Denton, TX.
2021 Texas Talks Art: Conversation with taylor + John Spriggins of the South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX.
2020 Coffee Chat : taylor barnes with Big Medium, Austin, TX.
2019 Invited Panelist: Conversation with Barbara McCraw and Taylor Barnes, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX.
2019 Artist Talk: Taylor Barnes “My Genesis,” UNT on the Square, Denton, TX.
2018 Workshop Leader: Compose a Loom, Marshall NC.
2017 Invited Lecture: Artist Talk : Taylor Barnes, Haywood Community College, Clyde, NC.
2017 Invited Lecture: Making Waves: Moving Minds, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX.
AWARDS + HONORS
2021 Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Giles Kimbrough Fund Award 2021, Dallas, TX.
2019 Sylvia Holgan Emerging Artist Award, Make Art With Purpose, Dallas, TX.
2018 College of Visual Arts and Design Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
2017 James T. Rhea Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton TX.
2017 Fellow Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN.
2017 Outstanding Student Award, Surface Design Association
INTERVIEWS + PUBLICATIONS
2020 Fibers of Being: taylor barnes, Sightlines.
https://sightlinesmag.org/fibers-of-being-taylor-barnes
Top 5: September 10, 2020. Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/2020/09/10/top-five-september-10-2020/
Cage Match Project, Round 14 : (un)box, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/events/2020/09/21/cage-match-project-round-14-unbox-by-taylor-barnes
Big Medium Coffee Chats: taylor barnes.
https://www.bigmedium.org/coffeechats/taylorbarnes
Round 14. : Taylor Barnes “un(box)”, Cage Match Project Podcast, Spotify.
Culture Place Online Market Place. Erin Cluley Gallery.
Dallas Art Fair debuts new online platform for buying art from Texas galleries: Dallas Morning News.
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2020/07/09/dallas-art-fair-debuts-new online-platform-for-buying-art-from-texas-galleries/
2019 Taylor Barnes : My Genesis, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/events/2019/01/22/taylor-barnes-my-genesis/
My Genesis, Denton Black Film Festival.
http://dentonbff.com/blog/taylor-barnes/
Read My Mind, Art News Dallas.
http://artgroupsdfw.com/?s=taylor+barnes
2018 Read My Mind, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/events/2018/12/03/taylor-barnes-read-my-mind/
Working in Black and White, KERA Art + Seek Spotlight.
http://artandseek.org/spotlight/working-in-black-and-white/
Summer 2018 Erin Cluly Gallery, Contemporary art Dealers Dallas.
https://www.caddallas.org/galleries#/erin-cluley-gallery/
Summer 2018 Erin Cluly Gallery, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/events/2018/07/03/summer-2018/
Featured Artist: Taylor Barnes, Spiderweb Salon.
https://www.spiderwebsalon.com/blog/2018/8/featured-artist-taylor-barnes
#Melaninpoppin, Art News Dallas.
http://artgroupsdfw.com/?s=taylor+barnes
Temporary Collective, Glasstire,
https://glasstire.com/events/2018/04/11/temporary-collectives-3/
College Expo 2018, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/events/2018/02/05/college-expo-2018/
SEVEN: Fibers, Glasstire.
https://glasstire.com/2017/09/11/seven-fibers-at-the-art-room-fort-worth/
EDUCATIOn
2019 Masters of Fine Arts, Fibers
College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fibers
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics
College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX