Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor

Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist researcher working with text, dialogue, archives and moving images. Her roots are in the Southern United States, born in Mississippi and bred in Florida on former Timucan land. Her work centers on themes of ritual, social politics and identity mythology of Black and Indigenous folks.

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, the Irish Museum for Modern Art and most recently the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre. 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 currently researching death and mourning practices across the African diaspora as part of her PhD fellowship at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.