Self-Portrait (2017)
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist, filmmaker, writer and programmer. Her roots are in the Southern United States, born in Mississippi and bred in Florida on former Timucan land. Taylor's work manifests through text, dialogue and video. Her work centers on themes of ritual, social politics and identity mythology of Black and Indigenous folks. She is chiefly concerned with the creation of racial equity in art and theater.
She has performed and presented work at the Barbican Centre of Art (London, UK) Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK), Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin, Germany), Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, Germany), Sophiensaele Theater (Berlin, Germany), The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo, Norway) and National Museum of Norway (Stavanger, Norway). Taylor has been a resident at Tate Museum of Modern Art and the Irish Museum for Modern Art. Her writing has been commissioned by Vogue Germany, Haus der Kunst and the Hamburger Bahnhof exhibition catalogue.
She hosted and moderated the salon series, Black in Berlin until 2017. Her film, Muttererde, a series that calls for femme forms of ancestral history, has been screened in over ten countries. Taylor is based in Oslo, Norway.