Zin Taylor was born in 1978 in Calgary (Canada), he lives and works in Paris (France)
www.zintaylor.com
Educations
2000 - BFA, Alberta College of Art, Calgary (Canada)
2005 - MFA, University of Guelph, Guelph (Canada)
Selected solo exhibitions
2022 - Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada (forthcoming)
2021 - A Vitrine of Snakes, Villa Bellevile, Paris, France
2018 - Cut Flowers, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017 - A Dove on the Beach: a piece of cloth to relax upon is a void to stage your thoughts , FRAC île-de-france/Le Plateau - Vitrine, Paris, France
2017 - Creative Writing, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
2017 - The Mobiles - Independent Regence - Brussels, Belgium
2016 - Five Units of Haze, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2015 - Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2015 - The Hippie and the Envelope - Bureau des Realities - Brussels, Belgium
2015 - A Segment of Translation - In Light of 25 Years, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015 - Three Ideas About Haze, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
2015 - Void Flowers - Nosbaum Reding - Luxembourg
2014 - Portals (SUN MILK) - Maison Gregoire - Brussels, Belgium
2014 - Karl's Body, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2014 - The Tangental Zig-Zag, Kunstraum, London, UK
2014 - The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7), Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 - Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag - 21er Haus - Vienna, Austria
2014 - The Illustrator - 1646 - The Hague, The Netherlands
2013 - Letterhead - Kunsthal Charlottenborg - Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 - The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 6), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2013 - The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5), Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada
2013 - Parrot Soup, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
2012 - The Ceremony and The Spirit, (with Roe Ethridge), La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
2012 - The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 2), Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012 - The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 1), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 - Art Statements - Art Basel - Basel, Switzerland
2011 - The Voids - Galerie Vidal Cuglietta - Brussels, Belgium
2011 - The Instruments - ABC Berlin - Berlin, Germany
2011 - The Flute of Sub, The Artist's Institute, New York, USA
2011 - Growth, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium
2011 - The Five Arms of Supportico, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
2011 - The Units, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2010 - The Bakery of Blok (first arrangement), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
2010 - The Nine Fingers of Malakoff - Pavilion Projects / Les Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Malakoff, France
2009 - The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA
2009 - The Bakery of Blok, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada
2008 - The Crystal Ship - BELvue Museum, Brussels, Belgium / Etablissement d?en Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2007 - The Flute of Sub, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 - Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentaty recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net Station in Dawson City,Yukon, Establissement d'en Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2007 - PPut Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentaty recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net Station in Dawson City,Yukon, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, Canada
2007 - Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: a conversational documentaty recording Martin Kippenberger's Metro-net Station in Dawson City,Yukon, Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada
2007 - Who Named the Days, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada
2005 - Nub, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2005 - The Spiders (collaborative project with Damian Moppett), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2004 - What the World's Like With The Words We Like, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003 - The Flower Called Nowhere, Artspace, Peterborough, Canada
2021 - Art-O-Rama, Marseille, France - Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris-Marseille, France
2021 - Covid, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Marseille, France
2021 - Open Source?, Une exposition dans les vitrines du quartier Belleville, Paris, France
2020 - Photography to the test of abstraction - Frac Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2020 - Cool Invites - XYZ collective - Tokyo, Japan
2019 - Camouflage - Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Saint Gallen, Switzerland
2019 - After 8 - Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch - Donaueschingen, Germany
2019 - The Clock That Went Backward - Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019 - Body Talk - MuMo2 - Frac Île-de-France - Traveling mobile exhibition, France
2018 - a nanking cherry finds a hill - 67 Stepsm Los Angeles, USA
2018 - Belonging to a Place - Canadian Embassym Washington D.C., USA
2017 - Les Bons Sentiments, 19th Prix Ricard, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France
2017 - Belonging to a Place, Scrap Metal, Toronto, Canada
2017 - While I was also listening David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée, Rennes, France
2017 - Alors que j'écoutais moi aussi Virginie, Pierre and Zin, La Criée Rennes, France
2017 - Index for The Flute of Sub, Meeting Points 8: Both Sides of the Curtain, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 - VIENNA BIENNALE 2017 - Robots.Work.Our Future - ich weiß nicht ? I don't know - MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria
2016 - Répétition, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
2016 - Hybrid Objects, L'inconnue, Montreal, Canada
2016 - L'esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Le louvre, Paris, France
2016 - Sound Bath - Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
2015 - Out of Line, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2015 - I want to be. Inside Out. - MOT International, Brussels, Belgium
2015 - TRUST - Kunsthal Charlottenborg , Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - Poem No 00000000000000000000000000000,9, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014 - Dirt Not Copper - 221a, Vancouver, Canada
2014 - The Tools - Root Division, San Franciso, USA
2014 - Thinking Things - CGP London - Dilston Grove, London, England
2014 - Interprete, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
2014 - The Tools, Root Division, San Franciso, USA
2014 - Storytelling, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2014 - Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2014 - IN THE HOUSE OF MR & MRS, Temporary Gallery, Köln, Germany
2014 - An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2014 - Dawson Gold, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2014 - A Handful of Dust, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, USA
2014 - The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
2013 - The Way of the Shovel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2013 - A Handful of Dust, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, USA
2013 - Dawson Gold, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA
2013 - An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2013 - IN THE HOUSE OF MR & MRS, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2013 - Collection, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
2013 - Storytelling, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2013 - The Way of the Shovel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2012 - Manufacture, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2011 - Ex-Libris, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, Belgium
2011 - We Don't Need to Need to Do This, MOT International, London, UK
2010 - Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010 - Truimphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery,Vancouver, Canada
2010 - Architectooralooral, 1857, Oslo, Norway
2009 - The Archeologists, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2009 - Dream Machines: Objects and Physical Phenomena (A Reciprocal Love Story), Beaubourg, Brussels, Canada
2009 - Transformers, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada
2009 - Architecture of Survival, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium
2007 - Ideas of North, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 - 18-Beckett, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
2006 - Habitat, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada
2006 - 18-Beckett, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 - Du coté de Jessica Bradley Art + Projects - Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
2005 - Arm in Arm, (collaborative project with Allison Hrabluik), Or Gallery, Vancouver,Canada
2005 - Dedicated to you but you weren't listening, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2005 - Nub, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2004 - New Toronto Artists in Adelaid, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
2004 - Switch, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
2004 - Publish or Perish, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
2003 - Soundtracks: Re-Play, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2003 - Soundtracks: Re-Play, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2003 - Soundtracks: Re-Play, Interaccess, Toronto, Canada
2003 - Soundtracks: Re-Play, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton,Canada
2001 - Secondhand, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001 - Blue Calgary Sky - Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Residencies
2021 - Viridarium Chymicum - Torino, Italy
2020 - Ville Belleville - Paris, France
2018 - Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch - Heiligenberg, Germany
2017 - Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, France
2016 - Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, France
2014 - 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2012 - Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, Canada
2011 - The Model - Sligo, Ireland
2010 - Fogo Island Arts - Fogo Island, Canada
2007 - Scottish Sculpture Workshop - Lumsden, Scotland
Bibliography of Publications, Artists books and Records
2020 - Taylor, Zin. Ambient Visions of a Dot. Gent: Art Paper Editions
Professional
2019 - Artist Talk - York University, Toronto, Canada
2019 - Artist Talk - University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
2019 - Presentation on New age music and abstraction with Dieter Roelstraete - Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2019 - Visiting Lecturer - École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2018 - Residency, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Heiligenberg, Germany
2018 - Artist talk, Western University, London, UK
2017 - Artist talk, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
2005 - Panel discussion - Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2021 - Instructor - Paris College of Art, Paris, France - MFA Studio Seminar - Drawing and Education
2020 - Instructor - Paris College of Art, Paris, France - MFA Drawing Studio - In-situ
2020 - Instructor - Paris College of Art, Paris, France - MFA Seminar - Educational Principle
2017 - Instructor - Masters Lecturer in Contemporary Art, Graduate level, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2008 - Instructor - Collage ? 3rd and 4th year Undergraduate studio course, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2006 - Instructor - Special Topics in Sculpture, 4th year Undergraduate studio course, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2006 - Instructor - Extended Media 1, 2nd and 3rd year Undergraduate studio course, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2005 - Instructor - Media Convergences, 2nd and 3rd year Undergraduate studio course, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2004 - Instructor - Media Convergences, 2nd and 3rd year Undergraduate studio course, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2014 - Canada Council Artist Travel Grant
2011 - Canada Council Artist Travel Grant
2009 - Canada Council Artist Travel Grant
2008 - Canada Council Artist Travel Grant
2007 - OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant Canada Council Artisi Travel Grant
2006 - TAC Emerging Artist Grant
2005 - OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant
2003 - Steamwhistle Contemporary Art Award
2001 - Canada Council Artist Travel Grant
CNAP, Paris, France