About Keith

Billy, the Boston Terrier and Keith — Billy and Keith

I am a photographer and printmaker using traditional, historical and contemporary photo processes, as well as the book arts. I started printing in silver-gelatin in the mid-1970s, platinum-palladium in the 1980s, and polymer photogravure in 1999. Originally from London, I now live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I use photography to render landscapes, both real and imagined, playing with tensions between geography and experience. I am particularly interested in applying experimental technology to push the capabilities of handmade historical photographic printmaking processes.

My work has been widely exhibited across the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. I am a five-time recipient of fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and I was awarded a place in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Foundation mentorship program.

I teach workshops at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and continue to offer traditional darkroom lab services, bookbinding and portfolio cases for other photographers and artists.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2022 Photolucida/Critical Mass — Finalist (Otherworld)
2022 Denis Roussel Award — Rfotofolio Work of Merit Award winner (Otherworld)
2022 Klompching Gallery FRESH 2022 — Finalist (Otherworld)
2021 Minnesota State Arts Board — Creative Support for Individuals grant recipient
2019 Minnesota State Arts Board — Artist Initiative grant recipient
2017 TPS National Photography Award — Finalist
2014 Photolucida/Critical Mass Book Awards — Shortlisted finalist
2013 Minnesota State Arts Board — Artist Initiative grant recipient
2012 McKnight Artist Fellowship — Shortlisted finalist (Dark Matter)
2011 MCBA/Jerome Foundation — Book Arts Mentorship Program Series III recipient
2010 Minnesota State Arts Board — Artist Initiative grant recipient
2006 Minnesota State Arts Board — Artist Initiative grant recipient

COLLECTIONS

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Michael Dougherty Financial, corporate collection
Medtronic, corporate collection
Padilla Speer Beardsley, corporate collection
Numerous private collections

SOLO EXIBITIONS

2020 The Niche Gallery, Century College, White Bear Lake, MN — Otherworld
2013 Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN — Dark Matter
2004 Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — Through These Doors
1998 pARTs Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN — Members Spotlight
1993 Islington Arts Factory, London, UK — New Ground

ARTIST TALKS

2020 Century College, White Bear Lake, MN — Otherworld
2011 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN — Arnold Flaten Lecture Series — Guest speaker
2010 Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN — Alternatives: Where Process is Paramount — Juror
2008 f295 Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA — Guest speaker
2005 APIS (Alternative Photo International Symposium), Santa Fe, NM — Guest speaker
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN — Regular visiting artist
Century College, White Bear Lake, MN — Regular visiting artist
College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
pARTs Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
College of St. Benedict’s, St. Cloud, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

WORKSHOPS

North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN — Clamshell portfolio case workshop
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN — Regular polymer photogravure workshops
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN — Clamshell portfolio case workshop
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN — Numerous polymer photogravure workshops
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN — Polymer photogravure workshop

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN — Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial
2021 Atelier D and Elsa Art Space, Bielefeld, Germany — Obsolete and Discontinued

2020 Grenze Arsenali Fotografici Festival, Verona, Italy — Obsolete and Discontinued
2020 Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany — Artistic Techniques, Etchings

2019 Cargill Hall Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — Bibliographic in Nature
2019 Casa Candelario Obeso Museum, Cali, Columbia — CaliGrafica Portfolio
2019 International Graphic Festival, Cali, Columbia — CaliGrafica
2019 Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, Italy — Obsolete and Discontinued
2019 El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM — The Handmade Photograph — Honourable Mention
2019 Marsden|Gustafson Gallery, St. Paul, MN — States of Matter: New Work by Lisa Nebenzahl and Keith Taylor

2018 Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN — pulchra scientia: The Aesthetics of Discovery
2018 Waterstones Gallery, London, UK — Obsolete and Discontinued
2018 The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN — Summer Celebration of the Arts
2018 Fotofilmic, New York, Paris, Vancouver, Thessaloniki — Travelling exhibition
2018 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA — Depth of Field

2017 Fotofilmic — 2017 Summer Edition
2017 Rfotofolio — Juried Show
2017 Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND — Plains Art Museum Gala Auction
2017 Photo Méthode Gallery, Austin, TX — INPrint
2017 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ — INFOCUS Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks

2016 Schaelpic Photokunstbar, Cologne, Germany — Obsolete and Discontinued
2016 Peterssen Keller Architects, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Nos Caves Vin, Houston, TX — Lost Nature: Wynn Bullock, Keith Taylor, C & J Rosenthal
2016 Revela-T Festival, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain — Obsolete and Discontinued
2016 Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT — Flight
2016 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO — Transitional Landscapes

2015 Low Gallery, San Diego, CA. Medium Festival of Photography — Size Matters
2015 Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ — Depth of Field
2015 Instinct Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — Vibrant Matters

2014 Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM — Figments of Reality — An Exhibition of Contemporary Landscape Images
2014 MN State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN — Perspectives

2014 The Center for Fine Arts Photography, Fort Collins, CO — Alternative Process Show — Juror’s Honourable Mention
2014 Flakphoto, Madison, WI — FlakPhoto Midwest Print Show

2012 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — Dark Matter
2012 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — shadows traces undercurrents
2012 Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND — Art on the Plains XI — 2nd Place award

2011 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN — MCBA/Jerome Foundation Mentorship

2010 Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN — Land – Unfeigned or Illusory
2010 IFP MN Center for Media Arts, Minneapolis, MN — The Art of the Hand-Crafted Print

2009 Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C. — National Small Works
2009 The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY — f295: 21st Century Photography
2009 Iris Gallery, Boston and Great Barrington, MA

2008 Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ — Photography Re-Imagined — 2nd Place Award
2008 Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY — Ornithology
2008 707 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA — The f295 Exhibition of Contemporary Alternative Photography

2007 Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN — Artist Initiative Grantees show
2007 Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN — The Captured Image: Photography Beyond Grain & Pixels
2007 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C. — National Small Works — 4th Place Award
2007 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO — Alternative Processes
2007 Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA — Visual Edge 3: Handcrafted

2006 Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN — 2006 Arrowhead Biennial — Honourable Mention

2005 Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN — City Seen

2004 Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND — Art on the Plains • First Place Award — Juror’s Choice

2002 Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN — Points of View: Photographs by Keith Taylor & Beth Dow

2000 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN — Foot In The Door

1997 pARTs Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN — Welcome to Minnesota
1997 The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK — International Print Exhibition

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2019 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN — MCBA/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Fellowship XV — Panelist
2012 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN — MCBA/Jerome Foundation Mentorship Program IV — Panelist
2010 Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN Alternatives — Where Process is Paramount — Juror
1990 Ilford Photographic Awards, London, UK — Juror

PUBLICATIONS

PRESS

2022 Ray Shehadeh — The Return of Analog Film in a Digital Age, Mn Artists/Walker Art Center, August 29, 2022
2018 Dario Carere “Otherworld” — Gente di Fotografia, Anno XXIII #69, 2017
2017 Santosh Korthiwada “Artist Interview” — One Twelve, October 2017
2014 Tom Persinger “Keith Taylor: Dark Matter” — F295, July 8, 2014
2013 Lex Thompson “F* That: Photography and the Ineffable” — Lavalette, May 30, 2013
2013 Rfotofolio “The Art of Keith Taylor” — Rfotofolio, April 24, 2013
2013 David Walker “Minnesota’s Artist Initiative Grants” — Photo District News, July, 2013
2011 Mary Abbe “Opportunities Won, and Lost” — Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 17, 2011
2010 Mary Abbe “Landscape Photography” — Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 7, 2010
2007 Hannah Dentinger “The Captured Image: Photography Beyond Grain & Pixels” — Duluth Art Institute, August 13, 2007
2004 Mary Abbe “Platinum Paradise” — Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 26, 2004