Shefon N. Taylor is an artist called by the secret realms of the archive. At the heart of her artistic practice is a profound curiosity with notions of rememory, the intimate pursuit of belonging, and the ways absence presences in the archive to shape interiority. 

Her choice of collage as an ingress medium is a fascination with its delicate and capricious nature. Taylor’s work investigates the emergence of rememory in the wake of an encounter with the haptic repository that is the archive. Her approach situates the public and private archive as a juxtaposed, fractured self —the practice, a metaphor of the ways we interface and search the other toward wholeness. 

Shefon’s artistic vision is informed by Toni Morrison’s concept of rememory, which is presented as a “recollection and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, family and the population of the past.”

Shefon and her work have been featured in Essence, Grazia, Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications. Taylor is an alumna of the artist-in-residence program with The Delaware Contemporary Museum and a current Artist Research Fellow with The Winterthur Museum in Delaware.