camara taylor is an artist and - - - living in Glasgow. They tend to make still and moving images, texts, events and installations that act as moments of stasis in an enduring unravelling of—
…often encircling the accumulation and dissolution of image, language, and (black) presence; geographies; madness; movement;
pressing against imperial structures in and outwith - Scotland.
rooted in ambivalence, obliqueness, and—
contact: camarataylorbushell[at]gmail[dot]com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/COMMISSIONS
2026 Permanent Future, if the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
2024 [mouthfeel], Tramway, Glasgow, SCT
2022 backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT
2021 IMG_5917 w/ Sulaïman Majali, (RETREAT), GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW: PART 6, Artists’ Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland
2021 a rant! a reel! Cubitt Gallery, London, ENG
2021 slow breath w/ Meera Shakti Osborne, NewBridge Project, Gateshead, ENG
2019 something vague and irrational, w/ Sulaïman Majali, (RETREAT), Celine Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2018 Flutter, Artspace Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, ENG
2017 Flourish, The Gallow Gate, Glasgow, SCT 2015 Shft+Ctrl+Save, w/ Isaac Kariuki, Meta Gallery, MoCA, North Miami, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Some Rhythms Persist, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, SCT
2026 Black Waters: Inference to The Veil, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT
2024 Soft Impressions Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard & Camara Taylor, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, SCT
2022 When Bodies Whisper, Timespan, Helmsdale, SCT
2022 Körper Barrikaden, Teile2o46, Berlin, DE
2021 What happens to desire…, Edinburgh Art Festival 2021
2020 Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2019 as of yet, Many Studios, Glasgow, SCT
2018 queer times school prints, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2018 Road Maps, (Supported by Glasgow International 2018) CCA, Glasgow, SCT
2017 Things, cur. by withfc, 6 Dixon St, Glasgow, SCT
2016 Rum Retort, cur. Mother Tongue Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, SCT
2015 Shft+Ctrl+Save, Meta Gallery, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
SCREENINGS
2026 Reel Stories Film Festival, Community Folk Art Center, Syracruse, US
2026 Scottish Competition, Glasgow Short Film Festival, SCT
2025 CICLA 13th Edition, Cinemateca de Bogotá, Bogotá, CO
2025 Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, US
2025 Another World, Atlas Cinema, London, ENG
2025 Special: Views on Scotland, Videox 2025 27th Edition, Zurich, CH
2025 Shorts Block: Why does the air tremble?, Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, US
2025 nobody’s word, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2025, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ENG
2025 Home as Sanctuary as Body in a State of Seige | Donald Rodney: Film Programme, Whitechapel Gallery, London, ENG
2024 both a dance and a preparation for a fall, Night Vision & Black Cinema Project, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, ENG
2024 Looking | Camara Taylor, Scott Caruth, Mel Baggs, Serf, Leeds, ENG
2023 CINEMA DESPITE Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, SCT
2021 repeated apparitions, Horse Hospital, London, ENG
2021 suspiration, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ENG
2018 Hieroglyphics of the Flesh, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas
2017 LUX & Mother Tongue present AfroScots, various venues, SCT
2017 This can only be thought of a monologue within a dialogue, ECA, Edinburgh, SCT
2017 AfroScots, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
RESIDENCIES/PROGRAMMES
2024 FieldARTS 2024, Glasgow, SCT
2023 Résidence Darling Newhaven, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, CA
2023 Lola Olufemi Writers’ Salon, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh,
2023 Diverse Critics, Disability Arts Online Writing Programme
2021/22 Satellites, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT
2021 Experimental Film & Moving Image Residency, Cove Park, Cove, SCT
2020 Studio Projects Residency, Market Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2019 Curatorial Directions, MAC Belfast, NIR
2019 Starter Residency, National Theatre of Scotland (supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation), Glasgow, SCT
2017/18 Constellations, UP Projects & Flat Time House (FTHo), London, ENG
2017 MANY Studios, Glasgow, SCT 2015 Fresh Milk, Barbados
TALKS/PANELS (SELECTED)
2024 RRS: In Conversation with Marlene Smith and Camara Taylor, Glasgow School of Art [online]
2024 Moving Images Within Precarious Structures - Ep 1, Women’s Library, Glasgow, SCT
2024 Artist Talk, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT
2022 ‘ranting and reeling in relation’, Significant Others: Maud Sulter in Relation, Glasgow Women’s Library, SCT
2021 ‘Artists’ in Conversation - What happens to desire…’, Edinburgh Art Festival [online]
2021 The Conch, South London Gallery, ENG [online]
2021 Miles Greenwood, SoFA Friday Event, The Glasgow School of Art, SCT
2019 where did we land, post-screening discussion w/ Rabz Lansiquot, SQIFF 2019, SCT
2018 Artists in the gig economy, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, SCT
2018 After Dark, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2018 Ground Zine Panel, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2018 Talk See Photography: Refusal and other essential strategies, CCA Glasgow, SCT
2016 Garth Gartrix and Transmission – Self Generated Activity and Artist Led Spaces, UK Young Artists Festival, Derby, ENG
2016 Lotic - Q&A and Kitchen Table Discussion, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, SCT
2016 Fire the Canon, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2015 Contemporary Issues: Navigating Art and Social Practice, Barbados Community College, BB
2015 Operation Legacy: Approaching 50 Years Since Independence, Barbados Community College, BB
TEACHING
2025 Visiting Lecturer, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT
2024/25 Academic Fine Art Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, SCT
2023 Visiting Artist, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, SCT
2022 Visiting Artist, Northumbria University, Newcastle, ENG
2021/22 Academic Fine Art Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, SCT
2018 Visiting Fine Art Lecturer, Newcastle University, ENG
2015 Visiting Artist, Barbados Community College, Bridgetown, BB
AWARDS/GRANTS
2025 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award
2022 Elephant Trust Grant
2021 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award
2021 Creative Scotland Sustaining Creative Development Grant
2020 Second Life Grant, Edwin Morgan Trust
2019 Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship
2017 Glasgow Visual Artist & Maker Award
AND
2016 -18 Committee Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2017 -21 Programme Coordinator, Race, Rights & Sovereignty Series, The Glasgow
2019 -20 Film Programmer, CCA Glasgow
2021 -present Creative Access Worker, Collective Text
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