about.
Taylor Renee Aldridge is a writer and curator based in Detroit, Michigan. In 2014, with writer Jessica Lynne, she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. In Fall 2024, she assumed the role of Executive Director at the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation.
Taylor has edited and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs, including 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). Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Art21, ARTNews, CanadianArt, Contemporary&, Detroit Metro Times and SFMOMA’s Open Space.
She has organized exhibitions with the California African American Museum (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).
Taylor 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.
Photo: Bella Lopez