Phil Taylor joined the George Eastman Museum as a New York City-based curator in the Department of Photography in 2022. At the Eastman Museum he has organized New Directions: Recent Acquisitions (2024), with Louis Chavez, and Gregory Halpern: 19 winters / 7 springs (2023). He is currently planning forthcoming exhibitions including Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum (2024), with colleagues in the Department of Photography; Scene at Eastman: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (2024); and Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent) (2025). Previously, Taylor was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where he assisted Roxana Marcoci on the major survey Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (2022), and co-edited "Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader" with Marcoci. At MoMA, he organized or co-organized collection exhibitions including Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters (2019) and A Modern Media World (2020). A former David E. Finley Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Art & Archaeology at Princeton University.
Center for Curatorial Leadership Trains New Generation of Curatorial Leaders Fifteen Art History Doctoral Students Selected for 2015 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has announced the participants of the second CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, recognizing fifteen art history doctoral students ... Read More >