About
Shefon N. Taylor, Collagist and Writer
Shefon N. Taylor (b. 1988, Wilmington, DE) is an artist who is called to the secret realms of the archive. Interdisciplinary in practice, her work explores the notions of rememory, the shaping of interiority, and the intimate pursuit of belonging.
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.
Central to Shefon’s artistic vision is 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 highlighted in Create!, Essence, Grazia and Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. 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.
Upcoming:
December 3 - 8
John William Gallery at Art Miami, Miami, FL — Booth AM536
January 23 - February 28, 2025
Echoes in Matter, CFEVA Visiting Curator Exhibition, Felicity R. '“Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, curated by Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Philadelphia, PA
May 2 - 30, 2025
A Litany of Please, The Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
CV/Resume
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Miami Art Fair, Group Exhibition, John William Gallery, Miami, FL
Archival Encounters, Solo Exhibition, John William Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Bird’s Eye View, Group Exhibition, The Dahlia, Wilmington, DE
2023
ARC Residency / Radius, Group Exhibition, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2022
Group Exhibition, Buckhead Art & Co., Atlanta, GA
2021
Paper Portraits, Three Person Exhibition, Elizabeth Denison & Hatch Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Illusions of Beauty, Solo Exhibition, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Black Women’s History, Group Exhibition, James Oliver Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Untitled, Group Exhibition, ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Local & Famous, Toni & Stuart B. Young Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Grants & Awards
2021 Selected Resident, TILA Studios x IAF Digital Artist Residency, Atlanta, GA
2022 Selected Resident, Spotify Free Studio Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Selected Resident, Delaware Contemporary Artist-In-Residence, Wilmington, DE
2023 Selected Resident, Wilmington Alliance, Wilmington, DE
2023 Grantee, ArtNoir – Jar of Love
2024 Selected Artist Research Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
Press & Features
BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Claim Black Stories, Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart
Unattainable Luxuries: Inequities in Fashion, Essence Magazine
Black Collagists: The Book, Teri Henderson
4 Emerging BIPOC Women Artists You Need to Know, Grazia Magazine
Collage Exploring Femininity and Womanhood, Create! Magazine
On Staying Curious Throughout Your Practice, We Are Made Studios
Adobe and Black Archive x Living Archive Series, Adobe
Interior Maximalism: How These Women Creators Are Bringing a New Perspective to Art, Edition ModLux
On Staying Curious Throughout Your Practice, We Are Made Studios Podcast