Champneys Taylor

CHAMPNEYS TAYLOR was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1970 and lives in Washington, DC. Taylor is a 2012 fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA). Between 2005 and 2007 he regularly exhibited work at Cynthia Broan (New York City). His video work was screened at the Armand Hammer Auditorium in 2006 and 2007 as part of the Washington Project for the Arts “Experimental Media” series. In 2000, Taylor co-founded the artists’ collective Decatur Blue, with which he showed works at galleries and art spaces in DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Miami Beach, until 2005. He attended NYU Steinhardt, during which he studied in Venice Italy, and received a Masters in Studio Art in 2004. His work has been exhibited in group shows at Transformer (DC), Millennium Arts Center (DC), Civilian Art Projects (DC), a two-person show at Salve Regina Gallery, Catholic University, and a recent (2011) solo show at District of Columbia Arts Center (DC). His work is in public and private collections in Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York City, Washington DC, Brescia, Italy, and Jacksonville, Florida. champneystaylor.com