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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—
contact: camarataylorbushell[at]gmail[dot]com
upcomingJune 2024 [mouthfeel], Tramway, Glasgow (Commissioned by Glasgow International 2024)
Dec 2024 Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard & Camara Taylor, DCA Dundee
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2022 When bodies whisper, Timespan, Helmsdale, SCT
2022 Körper Barrikaden, Teile2o46, Berlin, DE
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 (SELECTED)
2024 Looking | Camara Taylor, Scott Caruth, Mel Baggs, Serf, Leeds, ENG
2023 CINEMA DESPITE Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, SCT
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, Montréal, CA
RESIDENCIES
2023 Résidence Darling Newhaven, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, CA
2021 Experimental Film & Moving Image Residency, Cove Park, Cove, SCT
2020 Studio Projects Residency, Market Gallery, Glasgow, SCT
2019 Starter Residency, National Theatre of Scotland (supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation), SCT
2017 MANY Studios, Glasgow, SCT
2015 Fresh Milk, Walkers Dairy, BB
TALKS/PANELS (SELECTED)
2024 Moving Images Within Precarious Structures – Episode 1, Glasgow Women’s Library, SCT
2022 Visiting Artist Talk, Northumbria University, Newcastle, ENG
2022 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
2021 Miles Greenwood, SoFA Friday Event, The Glasgow School of Art, SCT
2019 where did we land w/ Rabz Lansiquot, SQIFF 2019, Glasgow, SCT
2019 Backend x Transmission w/ Alex Sarkisian & Tako Taal, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England
2018 Artist in the gig economy, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018 After Dark, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2018 Ground Zine Panel, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2018 Transmission Talk + Q&A, w/ Alex Sarkisian & Andrew Black, Glasgow Zine Fest, CCA Glasgow, SCT
2018 Talk See Photography: Refusal and other essential strategies, CCA Glagow, Glasgow, SCT
2016 Self Generated Activity and Artist Led Spaces, UKYA Festival, Derby, ENG
2016 Lotic - Q&A and Kitchen Table Discussion, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 Navigating Art and Social Practice, Barbados Community College, Bridgetown, BB
TEACHING/WORKSHOPS
2021/22 Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, SCT
2018 Visiting Fine Art Lecturer, Newcastle University, ENG
2018 Glasgow School of Art PocSOC
2016 Fire the Canon, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2015 Visiting Artist, Barbados Community College, Bridgetown, BB
2015 Operation Legacy: Approaching 50 Years Since Independence, Barbados Community College, Barbados
WRITING / RESPONSES / PRESS
2022 review, CAMARA TAYLOR, COLLECTIVE, Maria Howard, Nothing Personal Issue III,
2022 SAMRA MAYANJA: LETTER TO THE SHOW and LETTER TO RAY
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
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
AND
2020/22 Satellites, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, SCT
2019 Curatorial Directions, MAC Belfast, NIR
2017/21 Programme Coordinator, Race, Rights & Sovereignty Series, The Glasgow School of Art
2017/18 Constellations, UP Projects & Flat Time House (FTHo), London, ENG
2016/18 Committee Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
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