Taylor Renee Aldridge

about.

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a curator, writer, and arts worker from Detroit, Michigan.   In 2014, she co-founded ARTS.BLACK with writer Jessica Lynne, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Aldridge and Lynne are working on a forthcoming publication, Situation Critical: A Century of Black Arts Criticism, which will be co-published by ARTS.BLACK and CARA (Center for Art, Research, and Alliance) in Spring 2027.

In Fall 2024, she assumed the role of Executive Director at Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, which offers maker resources to scholars and artists of color.  She is the former Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM), and has organized exhibitions with CAAM, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Cranbrook Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include American Artist | Shaper of God: Apple Valley Autonomy; Simone Leigh (2024, CAAM & LACMA) Darol Olu Kae: Keeping Time (2023, CAAM); Chloë Bass | #sky #nofilter: Hindsight for A Future America (2023, CAAM) and Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence and Preservation (2022, CAAM; 2021 Charles H. Wright Museum)

Taylor’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and catalogs. She has edited exhibition catalogs; 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). 

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.