Zin Taylor // Profile
Chris as Kippi Smoking (Production Still), 2007
Zin Taylor is a Canadian artist who currently resides in Toronto, Canada. Taylor’s practice addresses the role audience plays in constructing new meanings from the field of popular culture. His work reflects on the cultural environment as a construction site where lateral and at times divergent narrative constructions are developed through an active and individual participation. Through his examples, the viewer is invited to approach the elements in their environment as a history to be written as opposed to a role to be read. These elements are used as raw material to be provisionally formed into a working model of an alternative narrative. Recent exhibitions include Dedicated To You But You Weren’t Listening, Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto; 18:Beckett, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Idea of North, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Who Named the Days?, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto; and Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver and at YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto. Upcoming solo exhibitions are planned at Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
Zin Taylor is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.
Artist's CV
ZIN TAYLOR Born 1978, Calgary, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
2007
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon
Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Who Named The Days?
Jessica Bradley Art and Projects, Toronto, Canada
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon
YYZ Artist-Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentary recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net Station in Dawson City, Yukon
Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada
2005
Nub
Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
The Spiders
Collaborative project with Damian Moppett for the exterior windows of the CAG Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003
The Flower Called Nowhere Artspace, Peterborough, Canada
1999
Stories of Evil Sponge
Stride Gallery Satellite Space, Calgary, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2007
Ideas of North
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. Berlin, Germany
18:Beckett
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
2006
Habitat
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada
18:Beckett
Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Poster Project
Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada
Du coté de Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
2005
Arm in Arm
Collaborative project with Allison Hrabluik Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening
Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2004
What the World’s Like With The Words We Like
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Switch
University at Buffalo Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Publish or Perish
Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada
New Toronto Artists in Adelaide
Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
2003
Soundtracks: Re-Play
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
- MacKenzie Gallery, Regina, Canada
- Interaccess Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2001
Secondhand
Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Blue Calgary Sky
Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2000
Trace
Institute of Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada