Mark Taylor is a filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Collections

2011 -- "Box Set," 8 pages, edition of 4 plus 1 artist proof and 1 exhibition copy

2011

2006 -- "Sensing the World by Echo," book and DVD, 37 pages, edition of 15 plus 5 artists proofs

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 -- Recent Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

2011 -- Aqua Art Fair, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

2011 -- "WHAT in the WORLD," California Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, CA

2011 -- Project Space, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA

2010 -- "At Times I Think and At Times I Am," PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Solo and Two-Person Shows

2010 -- "Look," Factory Outlet Gallery, Mokelumne Hill, CA

2009 -- "The Story Behind the 'Pig Boy' Story," Factory Outlet Gallery, Mokelumne Hill, CA

Filmography (with selected exhibitions, awards and acquisitions)

Sensing the World by Echo (Digital, color) 2006
Includes film and limited edition hand-made book.

Book acquired by the Artist Book Collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art, among others (see below).

Mix Festival, New York, NY 2006; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2006; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI 2007; Inside Out Festival, Toronto, Canada 2007; Madrid Interational Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Madrid, Spain 2006; Tekfestival, Rome, Italy 2007; Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 2007

Lesson 9 (16mm, color, 16:00) 1999
Purchased for broadcast by BBC-TV, England, 2002. Received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts' Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship and the Tzabaco/Frameline Film Completion Fund

SBS-TV, Australia, 2002; MIX Mexico Tour, Mexico 2000, Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Turin, Italy 2000; Out on Screen, Vancouver, Canada 2000; London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, England, 2000; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 1999; Western Australia Film Festival, Fremantle, Australia, 1999

My Daddy and Animal Daddies (Video, color, 13:00) 1994
The Knitting Factory, MIX Festival, New York, NY 1996; Video Tensions, Tucson, AZ 1996; P.S. 122, New York, NY 1995; Special Merit - U. S. Super-8 Film & Video Festival, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ 1995; Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH 1995; New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY 1995; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL 1995

He Would Have Loved Me To Death (16mm, B/W & color, 10:00) 1992
L'entropot, Paris, France, 1999; R2, Bordeaux, France, 1999; Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam, Holland, 1999; MIX Festival Tour - various Brazil & Mexico, 1997; Schullesbisches Filmfestival, Berlin, Germany 1994; Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA 1994; DaKino Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania 1993; Int'l Audiovisual Experimental Film Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands 1993; The Kitchen, New York, NY 1993; UC Theater, Berkeley, CA 1993; Sinking Creek, Nashville, TN 1993; Athens Film Festival, Athens, OH 1993; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL 1993

Jane (16mm, B/W & Color, 9:00) 1989
MIX Festival Tour - various, Mexico, 1997; Alternative Film Festival of Barcelona, Barcelona,Spain 1996; Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY 1994; Mix Festival Tour, Brazil 1994; 99-Cent Film Festival, New York, NY 1993; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI 1990; Athens Film Festival, Athens, OH 1990

Publications

2009 -- "The past isn't what it used to be: the troubled homes of Mad Men," JUMP CUT: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 51, Spring 2009

Press

2011 -- "Box Set" singled out in Art in America's list of "Ten Highlights From the Editions/Artists Book Fair."

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2009 -- All College Honors, Non-fiction Writing, California College of the Arts

1999 -- Tzabaco/Frameline Film Completion Fund for Lesson 9

1994 -- National Endowment for the Arts' Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship

Education

2011 -- Masters of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts , San Francisco, CA

1989 -- Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Related Experience

2000-2011 -- Senior Interactive Producer/Online Arts Editor, KQED, San Francisco, CA

Creator and Producer of Gallery Crawl, a monthly arts podcast; Mix Tape, a monthly new music program and The Writers' Block, a weekly reading series distributed by NPR.

1996-2000 -- Film Festival Director/Exhibition Coordinator, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA

1994-1995 -- Communications Coordinator, P.O.V./The American Documentary, New York, NY