Timothy Taylor Gallery
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The Timothy Taylor Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery in Mayfair
Mayfair
Mayfair is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster.-History:Mayfair is named after the annual fortnight-long May Fair that took place on the site that is Shepherd Market today...

, London
London
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, owned and founded by Timothy Taylor. The gallery represents a variety of modern and contemporary artists, selling original and editioned artworks across many different media.

History

The gallery was founded in 1996 on Bruton Place and later moved to 24 Dering Street in 2003, expanding to include a second space at 21 Dering Street in 2006.

In October 2007, Timothy Taylor Gallery opened a new 2000 square feet (185.8 m²) space in Carlos Place, Mayfair, London, with an inaugural exhibition of Alex Katz’s works, entitled ‘One Flight Up’., The move allowed the gallery to exhibit a greater scope of works in a space designed by the acclaimed Eric Parry Architects.

Former senior curator of the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

, Emma Dexter, joined Timothy Taylor as director of exhibitions in 2007. Emma curated group shows including 'Ballet Mécanique' in 2007 and ‘Ventriloquist’ in 2009.,,

The gallery has produced over twenty publications, and shown over fifty exhibitions since its opening. Timothy Taylor Gallery also actively takes part in a number of art fairs worldwide, including the Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair that takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of frieze magazine...

, Art Basel Miami, and Art Basel
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...

.

Key personnel:
  • Timothy Taylor, Owner
  • Emma Dexter
    Emma Dexter
    -Career:Dexter wrote her M.Phil thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on The Relationship between Painting and Sculpture in 17th Century Spain...

    , Director of Exhibitions
  • Terry Danziger-Miles, Director

Artists

The gallery currently represents:
  • Craigie Aitchison
    Craigie Aitchison (painter)
    Craigie Aitchison, RA, CBE was a Scottish painter. He was known for his many paintings of the Crucifixion, one of which hangs behind the altar in the chapter house of Liverpool Cathedral.-Education:...

  • Ron Arad
    Ron Arad (industrial designer)
    Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect.-Biography:Arad attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem between 1971–73 and the Architectural Association in London from 1974–79...

  • Diane Arbus
    Diane Arbus
    Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....

  • Tim Braden
  • Jean-Marc Bustamante
    Jean-Marc Bustamante
    Jean-Marc Bustamante is a French artist, sculptor and photographer. He was born in Toulouse. He is noted as a conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. He has also worked with film . From 1983 to 1987 he and Bernard Bazile...

  • Marcel Dzama
    Marcel Dzama
    Marcel Dzama is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings.-Range of practice:...

  • Armen Eloyan
  • Adam Fuss
    Adam Fuss
    Adam Fuss is a British photographer.-Early life:Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. His father manufactured woman’s coats and his mother was an Australian fashion model. Fuss’s father suffered a stroke in 1963 and required constant care until his death in 1968. Fuss lived in Australia with...

  • Ewan Gibbs
  • Philip Guston
    Philip Guston
    Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning...

  • Susan Hiller
    Susan Hiller
    Susan Hiller is an American-born artist who lives in London, UK. Her art practice encompasses installation, video, photography, performance and writing.-Early Life and Education:...

  • Alex Katz
    Alex Katz
    Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...

  • Jonathan Lasker
    Jonathan Lasker
    Jonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....

  • Martin Maloney
    Martin Maloney
    Martin Maloney is a contemporary English artist.-Life and work:Martin Maloney was born in London. He attended the University of Sussex 1980–83, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 1988–91 and Goldsmiths College 1991–93.Martin Maloney practises deliberately "bad"...

  • Josephine Meckseper
    Josephine Meckseper
    Josephine Meckseper is a German artist based in New York.Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992....

  • Richard Patterson
  • Mai-Thu Perret
  • Fiona Rae
    Fiona Rae
    Fiona Rae is a British artist. Her work is firmly identified with the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s....

  • James Rielly
  • Sean Scully
    Sean Scully
    Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.-Life and work:...

  • Kiki Smith
    Kiki Smith
    Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...

  • Lucy Williams

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