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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— Currently, they are interested in images, objects, happenings and rumour that have, have failed to, or might just, attend to or refuse particular constructions of land/scape and the conditions of and for black life in (and so necessarily outwith) Scotland.
contact: camarataylorbushell[at]gmail[dot]com
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT
2021 a rant! a reel!, Cubitt Gallery, London, ENG
2021 slow breath, w/ Meera Shakti Osborne & Rene Francis-McBrearty, NewBridge Project, Gateshead, ENG
2019 something vague and irrational, w/ Sulaïman Majali, Celine Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2017 Flourish, The Gallow Gate, Glasgow, SCT
2015 Shft+Ctrl+Save, w/ Isaac Kariuki, Meta Gallery, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 When bodies whisper, Timespan, Helmsdale, SCT
2021 What happens to desire…, Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 cur. Tako Taal [online]
2020 Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2018 queer times school, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, SCT
2018 Road Maps, (Supported by Glasgow International 2018) CCA Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2016 Rum Retort, cur. Mother Tongue Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, SCT
SCREENINGS
2021 suspiration!, Market Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2021 repeated apparitions, Horse Hospital, London, ENG
2021 GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW | Part 6, Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland [online]
2021 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, 17th Edition, Berwick-upon-tweed, ENG
2018 Heiroglyphics of the Flesh, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, BS
2018 Flutter, Artspace Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, ENG
2017 Afro Scots, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art & Edinburgh College of Art, SCT
2017 This can only be thought of a monologue within a dialogue, ECA, Edinburgh, SCT
2017 AfroScots, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA
RESIDENCIES / PROGRAMMES
2020/22 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), SCT
2017/18 Constellations, UP Projects & Flat Time House (FTHo), London, ENG
2017 MANY Studios, Glasgow, SCT
2015 Fresh Milk, Walkers Dairy, BB
AWARDS
2021 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award
2021 Creative Scotland, Sustaining Creative Development Fund
2020 Second Life Grant, Edwin Morgan Trust
2019 Andrew Grant Scholarship
2017 Glasgow Visual Artist & Maker Award
WRITING / RESPONSES / PRESS
2022 SAMRA MAYANJA: LETTER TO THE SHOW
2021 review of a rant! a reel! by The White Pube online
2021 A SERIES OF ESCAPES OF AIR, Saoirse Amira Anise pub. The Newbridge Project
2021 a many voiced argument with life, Market Gallery, Glasgow (Supported by GI2021)
2021 The Conch #21 w/ OLAMIJU FAJEMISIN, SAMRA MAYANJA & CAMARA TAYLOR pub. online
2021 Exploring EAF’s Associate Artist Programme, Adam Benmakhlouf, The Skinny
2020 On the cold, MAP Magazine online
2019 Reflections in Crypto - Knitting - Circles Zine, SWAP Market
2017 Camara Taylor on their new exhibition Flourish, Adam Benmahklouf, The Skinny
2015 For Father False in ‘The Babaloose Book’ First Edition, Lewis Prosser
2015 How a new wave of POC artists are challenging Britishness, Zing Tsjeng, Dazed Digital
2014/15 Motherlands Zine | founder/editor
TEACHING
2021/22 Academic Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, SCT
2018 Visiting Fine Art Lecturer, Newcastle University, ENG
2018 Glasgow School of Art PocSOC
2015 Visiting Artist, Barbados Community College, Bridgetown, BB