Works
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    Quarter Past Five
  • Maggie Taylor photograph three slumbering women in forest with icecream and cake purchase at Gilman Contemporary
    Slumber Party
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography dog and luggage available gilman contemporary
    The Patient Traveler
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography floral still life with butterflies gilman contemporary
    The Alchemists Chamber
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography dog and bone buy at gilman contemporary
    What Remains
  • Maggie Taylor, Song of the City
    Song of the City
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography bird in hand chair carried by birds Gilman Contemporary
    A Convergence of Birds
  • Maggie Taylor Surrealist photography stillive with champagne and oysters available at Gilman Contemporary
    A Little Bird Told Me So
  • Maggie Taylor, Conclave
    Conclave
  • Maggie Taylor, Cloud Nine
    Cloud Nine
  • Maggie Taylor, It's My Party
    It's My Party
  • Maggie Taylor, New Moon
    New Moon
  • Maggie Taylor, Night Trippers
    Night Trippers
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography uprooted tree with swing purchase at Gilman contemporary
    That Good Night
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography man and balloons available gilman contemporary
    The Climatologist
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    The Conundrum
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    The Daydreamer
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    The Occasion
  • Maggie Taylor, The Realist
    The Realist
  • Maggie Taylor, The Therapist
    The Therapist
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    The Weight of the World
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography trees view at gilman contemporary
    Wanderlust
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    Welcome to My Office
  • Maggie Taylor surrealist photography humpty dumpty with ladder purchase at Gilman Contemporary
    Why Not
Overview
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Maggie Taylor is a pioneering visual artist whose surreal, digitally composed images blend the sensibilities of photography, painting, and collage into a distinctive, dreamlike aesthetic. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1961, Taylor moved to Florida at age 11 and now lives and works on the outskirts of Gainesville, near a prairie inhabited by cows, alligators, and birds, a landscape that often echoes the whimsical and otherworldly tone of her work.

 

Taylor received a BA in Philosophy from Yale University in 1983, followed by an MFA in Photography from the University of Florida in 1987. After more than a decade as a still-life photographer, she began using digital tools in 1996 to construct her richly layered compositions. Her work invites viewers into intimate, often mysterious worlds, drawing inspiration from history, memory, and the subconscious.

 

Her images have been widely exhibited in solo exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. They are held in the permanent collections of esteemed institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; the Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville; the Princeton University Art Museum; and the Museum of Photography in Seoul, Korea. Among her honors are two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships (1996, 2001), the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition (2004), and the Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant (2005).

 

Maggie Taylor continues to push the boundaries of photographic expression, crafting visual narratives that are at once playful, poetic, and profoundly imaginative.

Exhibitions