FRASER TAYLOR
1960 Born in England
1977-1981 Glasgow School of Art, BA
1981-1983 Royal College of Art, London, MA
1984 Lloyds Young Printmakers Prize
2001- 2017 Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017 Appointed Professor at Glasgow School of Art
AWARDS/GRANTS
2017 Honorary Professorship, Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow
2016 MacArthur Foundation International Connections Grant, collaborative with The
Seldoms
2015 Joint award winner of The Textile Society Audrey Archivists Award, UK
2009 Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, US
MacArthur Foundation Grant, Marchland, collaboration with The Seldoms
2007 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois,
USA
1999 Goldsmiths College University of London, Department of Visual Arts, Research
Grant, British Art Now, Japan
1998 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The London Institute,
Department of Fashion and Textiles, Research Grant, British Art Now, Japan
1984 Lloyds Young Printmakers Prize, UK
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Instant Whip: Revisiting the textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, 1977-1987,
co-curated by Panel and Dr Helena Britt, The Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of
Art, Glasgow
2023 Two-Step / Playing up, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Dance/Draw, Graphical House Window Gallery, Glasgow
2022 Looking Back/Looking Forward, Jill George Gallery, London
Connections, Nicolls Gallery, Glasgow
2021 Two-Step- Selvedge to Selvedge,collaboration with Beth Shapeero The
Briggait, Glasgow
Two-Step - The Loading Bay,collaboration with Beth Shapeero, Glasgow,
2020 Morvich Shadows,Slow Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA (postponed)
Woodside Terrace Two-Step, collaboration with Beth Shapeero, Ruby Flowers
and Park Living, Glasgow
Two-Step -Two, collaboration with Beth Shapeero, Stallan Brand, Glasgow,
2019 In Series, City of Glasgow College, Glasgow
Two-Step, collaboration with Beth Shapeero, Govan Project Space, Glasgow,
STAGE, The Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
2018 Look and Look Again, The Ambassador Theatre Group and Scottish Opera
Shadowed Valley, Part Two, Mareel, Shetland Arts, Lerwick
Marchland, with The Seldoms, Links Hall/Constellation, Chicago, Illionis, USA
Fraser Taylor, Ruby Flowers and Park Living, Glasgow
2017 Volume, Holly Hunt, Miami, Florida, USA
The Making, with The Seldoms, Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2017 Toolbox, The Seldoms with Fraser Taylor, Studio Pavilion, House for an Art
Lover Glasgow
Collisions: Rose Wylie and Fraser Taylor, Alison Harley curator, Studio Pavilion,
House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
Tesseract, set design by Fraser Taylor, a collaboration between filmmaker
Charles Atlas and choreographers Silas Reiner and Rashaun Mitchell,
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre, New York; The Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA;
The Barbican, London
2016 Missed (and other) Connections, Karen Azarnia curator, Riverside Art Center,
Riverside, Illinois, USA
2015 Shetland Drawings, The Bike Room, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Orchid/Dirge, Shannon Stratton curator; Converso, New York, USA
Bodies of Work, Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow,
Shadowed Valley, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Arts, Shetland
Orchid/Dirge, Shannon Stratton curator; Threewalls, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014 Figure/Ground, Dr. Ian Massey curator; Briggait Project Spaces, Glasgow,
2013 Paintings, Gallery Aesthete, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Solids and Lines, Michael Graham and Dan Devening curators; Room 406,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Interface, in collaboration with Rashaun Mitchell, Baryshnikov Art Center, New
York, River Arts, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
2012 Diagrams and Seams, Lula's Walls, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Peculiarities, Balloon Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois, USInterface, in
collaboration with Rashaun Mitchell, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
Massachusetts, and the British Consulate Residence, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2011 Paintings 1997-2000, StART SPACE, London
Structural Intimacies, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley College,
Palos Hills, Illinois, USA
2010 Black Flowers, NEXT 2010, Special Projects, in association with Balloon
Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Orchid/Dirge, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
Marchland, with The Seldoms, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
Touring: International Festival Contemporary, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Jarson-
Kaplan Theatre, Aronoff Centre for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2009 Vertex, StART SPACE, London
Tracking, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
2008 Drawings, Japanese & British Art Now, Japan/UK Festival, SPICA art, Art
Planning Room, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
The Childer Street Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2001, Linda Ross
Contemporary, Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA
Compound, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2007 Flowers, Glasgow Arts Club, Glasgow
In Line, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Catch and Release, Art Miami, collaboration with Judith Leemann, sponsored
by StART SPACE, London
2006 Reverse Transcriptase, Hyde Park Art Center, In The Loop Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
2005 Cul de sac, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Constraints, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004 The Assembled Line, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Chicago, Paintings and Prints, Jill George Gallery, London
Graft, mn gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2003 Occupation, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Edges, Spica Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contours, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
2002 Amusements: Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
2001 Paintings, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dialogues Develop, British Art Now, Spica Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Between Sundays, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 West Coast, Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
All so Slippery, Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh
Placed Apart, Jill George Gallery, London
1999 Out of Place, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998 Even as a Blur, Jill George Gallery, London
Pillar to Post, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow
Drawing Installation, Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Monoprints, Jill George Gallery, London
1995 Paintings and Monoprints, Jill George Gallery, London
1994 Paintings (Two Person), Jill George Gallery, London
1993 Fraser Taylor, Gallery Boards, Paris, France
New Work, Jill George Gallery, London
1991 Between Points, Jill George Gallery, London
1989 Land Marks, Jill George Gallery, London
1987 True to Form, Thumb Gallery, London
1986 These Obscure Objects of Desire, Thumb Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 London Art Fair, ART2023, (Jill George Gallery)
Tangible / Intangible, including Two-Step, Curated by Veronika Desova, The
Haberdashery, Glasgow
Scotland Re:Design, including HAXTON, V&A Dundee, Dundee
The Love of Print, 'Here and Now' including Two-Step, Kelvingrove Art Gallery
and Museum, Glasgow
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London (Jill George Gallery)
2022 London Art Fair, ART2022, London (Jill George Gallery)
Spring Forward!, Jill George Gallery, London
MUST-SEE, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois, USA
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London (Jill George Gallery)
2021 Scotland Re:Design, including HAXTON, V&A Dundee, Dundee
Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Exhibition, Scottish Royal Academy,
Edinburgh
The Winter Show, Jill George Gallery, London
2020 Points of view 20, Randan Stables Gallery, Herefordshire
2019 Soft, Chicago Printmakers Collective, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Points of view, Randan Stables Gallery, Herefordshire
Lower Ollach, The Briggait, WASPS, Glasgow
2018 The Monoprint Show, Jill George Gallery, London
2017 Dix Artistes Ecossais, Palace de la Petite, Noyers-sur-Serein, France
Interstice, Frances Lightbound curator; Kruger Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2016 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist,
The Mitchell, Glasgow
Intimacy and Materiality, Rachel Moore curator; Helen Day Art Center, Vermont,
USA
The Barn Project no 3, Aurobora, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
2015 Bitter Answers, Danny Orendorff curator; Threewalls, EXPO, Chicago, Illinois,
USA
2013 Milk of Human Kindness, Queer Thoughts Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
80s Fashion from Club to Catwalk, Sonnet Stanfill and Claire Wilcox curators;
Victoria &Albert Museum, London
2011 Digital Revolution, Aron Mayorga curator; 2nd FLR Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
USA
Dimensional Lines: Art and Dress, Gillion Carrara and Fraser Taylor, curators;
Evanston Art Centre, Evanston, Illinois, USA
The Inventors of Tradition, Panel and Atelier curators; Stockwell Street Gallery,
Glasgow
2010 Abstract Matters, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 Drawing Beyond Edges; Materials and Process, The Foster Gallery, University
of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
2008 Optica, Screening of Crevice, International Video Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
Summer Group Show, StART SPACE, London
Gallery Artists, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, lllinois, USA
2x2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Abstraccion, Galeria Jorge Alcolea, Madrid, Spain
2007 Natura Morta, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Bilingual, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Impossible Violence: A History of Selves, Joshua David Riegel curator;
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2006 The Monoprint Show, Jill George Gallery, London
Optica, Screening of SWARM, Video Art Festival, Gojon, Spain
Flowers, de de ce, Melbourne, Australia
Flattened, John Brunetti curator; Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA
2005 Bilingual, Tracy Taylor curator; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
The Monoprint Show, Jill George Gallery, London
2004 Black and White, Linda Ross Contemporary Art Projects, Hunting Woods,
Michigan, USA
Evanston Biennial, Monique Meloche and Dominic Molon, curators;
Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Exquisite Corpse, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
2003 Triplex, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Review 2003, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
2002 Kitchen Sink, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Review 2002, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
Summer Suites, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California, USA
2001 British Art Now, The Music Room, London
2000 2x2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1999 Collaborations into the Millennium, British Art Now, Gallery Aoyama, Sagacho
Bis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Four Scots, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1998 British Art Now, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Communicating Image, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, Herts
The Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London and touring, UK
1997 British Art Now, Tokyo 97, Axis Gallery, Tokyo
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Art, London
The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh
Contemporary Scottish Paintings, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Four Painters, Jill George Gallery, London
1996 Monoprints, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
One Hundred Years of Design at the RCA, Royal College of Art, London
1995 Drawing Show, Jill George Gallery, London
1993 Big Works, Fine Art Consultancy, London
1992 Group Show, Fine Art Consultancy, London
1991 Friends and Contemporaries, John Jones Gallery, London
1991 Docklands, Exchange Tower, London
1989 Summer Show, The New Academy Gallery, London
1988 The Drawing Show, Thumb Gallery, London
1987 Two by Eight, Thumb Gallery, London
1986 Human Figure, Royal Academy of Art, London
1986 Artists Abroad, Royal Academy of Art, London
1985 The Cloth, Oliver and Pink, London
The Cloth, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee
1984 Olympic Show, Thumb Gallery, London
1983 The Music Show, Thumb Gallery, London
1982 Beneath the Cloth, Royal College of Art, London
ART FAIRS
Aqua Art Miami, ARCO Madrid, Art Chicago, Art Miami, Art Toronto, Bridge Art Fair Miami and London,
British Art Fair, Contemporary and Classics Chicago, EXPO Chicago, Fiac Paris, The Glasgow Art Fair, Korea
KIAF, London Art Fair, Los Angeles Art Fair, Material Art Fair Mexico, Nova Chicago, San Francisco Art Fair, Twentieth and Twenty First Century London, Hybrid Madrid
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, USA
The Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, Chicago, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Archives and Collections, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Textile Recourse Center, Fiber and Material Studies, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
The Fashion Resource Center, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
City of Glasgow College, Art Foundation, Glasgow
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Microsoft, San Francisco
S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd., London
Bank of China, London
Trainload Freight, London
Sun Oil, London
Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages Ltd., London
THE CLOTH, 1983 - 1987
Founded by David Band, Brian Bolger, Helen Manning and Fraser Taylor, The Cloth was an interdisciplinary design studio founded to facilitate movement between fine art and design. The Cloth designed textile collections for fashion designers in London, Paris and New York. Clients included: Betty Jackson, Paul Smith, Yves Saint Laurent,
Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Nicole Miller. The Cloth produced their own ready to wear collection, sold in Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York, Fred Segal, Isetan, Seibu, Browns, Harrods and Liberty of London.
Graphic design and corporate identity clients included: Quartet Books, Vintage Books, Random House Publishing, Saatchi and Saatchi Design, Rapier Marketing, Wolff Olins, Columbia Records, Step Electronics, Rusk International, Interview Magazine and Condé Nast.
PROJECTS
HAXTON, 2020 - present
Haxton revisits methods of making that were prominent in Fraser Taylor's practice in the 70s + 80s, silkscreen printing on fabric and garment construction. What differs now is that digital printing is included.
Two-Step, 2018 - present
Established in 2018, Two-Step is a collaboration with visual artist Beth Shapeero which explores a shared visual language of gesture and an investigation of scale.
Off-Kilter, Aurobora, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA