Working with light, shadow and negative space, Kāryn Taylor’s ephemeral and experiential works call on you to participate in an unseen world – a world of refracted light and the immaterial alchemy of a dual existence. From within this world lie endless possibilities. What is possible and what is actual? It is up to you to decide.

Kāryn Taylor received a MFA (First Class) from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2013. Taylor held her first solo exhibition with Anna Pappas Gallery, Immaterial Alchemy (2015), featuring a series of highly refined, aesthetically charged installations that seduce you into a false sense of voyeuristic objectivity. Taylor has also participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at  Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland; Sydney Contemporary, Sydney; the University of Canterbury’s SOFA Gallery, Christchurch; 30upstairs, Wellington; Waikato Museum, Auckland; and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin. In 2014, she was a finalist for the Wallace Art Awards (previously a finalist in 2012) and the Waikato Contemporary Art Awards. In 2012 she was also a finalist for the Lola Anne Tunbridge Award and in 2008 received the Dunedin Fringe Festival Grant.

• Kᾱryn Taylor – Immaterial Alchemy
• Goodbye 2015

EDUCATION

2013    MFA (First Class), Elam, Auckland
2005   BFA (Hons), Massey University, Wellington
1993   Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing, Masters Institute, California, USA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Line to Plane, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland

2015
Line of Site, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland
Immaterial Alchemy, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
New Geometries, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland

2014
Jacob’s Ladder, Corner Gallery, Auckland

2013
Abstract Philosophy, 30upstairs, Wellington

2010
Jacob’s Ladder, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Group Exhibitions

2016
Art-Athina Contemporary Art Fair, Faliron Pavilion, Athens, Greece

2016
Auckland Art Fair, The Cloud, Auckland

2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney
Light, 30upstairs, Wellington
Sandra Bushby and Kāryn Taylor, Window Gallery, Auckland
Sculpture, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland

2014
New Zealand Sculpture on Shore, Fort Takapuna, Auckland
Wallace Art Award, Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Auckland

2013
The Other Place, Allpress Gallery, Auckland
Launch 2012, Projectspace B431, Auckland

2012
Quietly Confident, SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
Lola Anne Tunbridge Award, Projectspace B431, Auckland

2008
Practical Metaphysics, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Dunedin

2005
To There and Back Again, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

2004
Cup Cup, New Dowse Gallery, Lower Hutt

Grants and Awards

2014
Sponsorship, New Zealand Sculpture on Shore
Finalist, Wallace Art Award
Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award

2012
Finalist, Wallace Art Award
Finalist, Lola Anne Tunbridge Award

2008
Mitre10 Mega, Dunedin Fringe Festival Grant

1994
North American Corporate Design Award I
North American Corporate Design Award II
Murphy Award (USA)
West Coast Show Award (USA)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2014
Sponsorship, New Zealand Sculpture on Shore, New Zealand
Finalist, Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
Finalist, Waikato Contemporary Art Awards, New Zealand

2012
Finalist, Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
Finalist, Lola Anne Tunbridge Award, Auckland

2008
Mitre10 Mega, Dunedin Fringe Festival Grant, Dunedin, New Zealand