Taylor Renee Aldridge is a curator and writer from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to working with living artists, she is interested in exploring, and interrogating the intimacies that are engendered, and sometimes required in artmaking. With writer Jessica Lynne, in 2014 she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Taylor has edited exhibition catalogs; Enunciated Life (CAAM, 2021) and Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation (Charles H. Wright Museum, 2021), and is the editor of All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection (Yale University Press, 2024). In Fall 2024, she will assume the role of Executive Director at Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, to offer resources to scholars and artists of color. She is the former Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM), and has organized critically acclaimed exhibitions with CAAM, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Cranbrook Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include Simone Leigh (2024, CAAM & LACMA) Darol Olu Kae: Keeping Time (2023, CAAM); Chloë Bass | #sky #nofilter: Hindsight for A Future America (2023, CAAM); Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence and Preservation (2022, CAAM; 2021 Charles H. Wright Museum); Troy Montez-Michie: Rock of Eye (2022, CAAM); Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment (2022, CAAM); LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze (2021, CAAM); and Enunciated Life (2021, CAAM).
Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Art21, ARTNews, Canadian Art, Contemporary&, Detroit Metro Times, the defunct SFMOMA’s Open Space, and numerous catalogs. She is the recipient of the 2016 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and the 2019 Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. She holds an MLA from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and a BA from Howard University with a concentration in Art History.
