Born 1964 – Salt Lake City, Utah
Moved to Evergreen, Colorado 1967
Grew up between Salt Lake City, Utah and Evergreen, Colorado where the landscape and geology have been constant inspirations.
Currently lives between Salt Lake City and Honolulu, Hawaii
Studied Sculpture and Ceramic Art at the University of Utah; Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988, Cum Laude
Studied Ceramic Sculpture at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (N.Y.S.C.C.A.); Master of Fine Arts in 1992
Artist in Residence and Factory Liaison for the John Michel Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Company in Kohler, Wisconsin 1993
Taught at the University of Utah 1994-2002
Accepted a position teaching Ceramic Art at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea in 2002, Tenured 2007
Accepted a position at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2008, Tenured 2013
Inducted into the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) 2011
– IAC is an Official UNESCO Partner, recognized internationally as the principal organization representing excellence in the ceramic arts worldwide.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Growing Rocks, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Salt Lake City, Utah
2019 Rift Hawaii, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2015 Pyroplastic Rift Taiwan, Sunlight Gallery, The New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum; Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Pyroplastic Line, Vanguard Sculpture, NCECA Concurrent Independent Exhibition, Milwaukee Wisconsin
2013 Brad Evan Taylor, Gallery for Tainan National University of the Arts, Daci Village, Taiwan
2011 Brad Evan Taylor: Small Masses Paired, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2008 Brad Evan Taylor: Korean Pyroplastic Line, Han Yang Nim Gallery, Heyri Art Village, Korea
1973 One “Man” Show, Solo Exhibition, Foothills Arts Center, Golden, Colorado
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Juried Competition, Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
– Silver Prize: ‘Compressed Mass – Rolled/Bound’
2018 Raw Design, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco California
Curator: Glen Adamson
2016 2016 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Competition, Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 8th World Ceramic Biennale, International Competition,
Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale (GICB formerly WOCEF) Icheon, Korea
– Silver Prize: ‘Compressed Mass – Rolled/Cubed’
Ege Art, Izmir, Turkey Curator: Mehmet Tuzum Kizilcan
2014 Macsabal Invitational, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2012 International Ceramics Triennial Unicum 2012, Juried Competition, Ljubljana, Slovenia
International Collection of Ceramics at Koroska Galerija Slovenj Gradec
– Juror’s Award – ‘Small Masses Paired’
2011 East West Ceramics Collaboration V, ‘Pyroplastic Rift’, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai’i
2010 American Show, Invitational Exhibition, Dao Art Space Galleries, Xian China
2009 5th World Ceramic Biennale, International Competition, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, (W.O.C.E.F.) Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea
– Juror’s Choice Award – ‘Pyroplastic Line’
2006 White Gold, International Traveling Exhibition – UK and Germany 2005-07
Curator: Jenny Beavan
2005 3rd World Ceramic Biennale Competition, W.O.C.E.F. Museum, Icheon, Korea
2003 Second World Ceramic Biennale Korea-International Competition; W.O.C.E.F., Korea
– Jurors Choice Award – ‘Compressed Mass – Folded/Rolled’
2002 Utah Art / Utah Artists – Overview of 150 Years of Utah Art, Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Springville Art Museum; Springville, Utah
Curators: Vern Swanson and Robert Olpin, Ph.d
Juxtapositions – Artists and the Landscape; Salt Lake City Arts Council Finch Lane Gallery, Utah
Curator: Hikmet Loe
1971 Evergreen Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, Evergreen Arts Center, Evergreen Colorado
– Best in Show Award, Title: ‘Rocks Growing’
Public Art Awards
2005 ‘Spiral Mass – Icheon’; Icheon City Park, W.O.C.E.F. World Ceramic Exposition Site, Korea
2002 ‘Glaciated Mass’; Salt Lake County Exposition Center – Southtowne, Sandy, Utah
2001 ‘Murray Stacks’; Murray Transit / Trax Station, Art in Transit, Murray, Utah
Authored Work
Ceramics Reader; pgs. 512-516, 2017, Eds. Petrie, Kevin and Andrew Livingstone, Title: “Environment, Art, Ceramics and Site Specificity”
Bloomsbury Academic, London ISBN: 978-1-4725-8442-7