Taylor Thomas

Taylor Thomas (b. Chicago, IL 1995) is a Black artist based out of Los Angeles. She graduated Magna cum Laude with Distinction from Amherst College in 2017 where she double majored in Sociology and Film & Media Studies. After receiving her undergraduate degree, Thomas spent 6 years developing feature films at Netflix and The Walt Disney Company. However, witnessing a lack of diversity in the entertainment industry drove Thomas to change careers and create the representation that she craved in the visual arts. She received her MFA in Fine Art with a Certificate in Education from CalArts in 2025.

Thomas' work investigates the ways in which public and private notions of Blackness and the Black family are formed through embodied experience and attempted reproduction of said experience through Film & Television media. Sourced from her personal photo archive and the public archive of industry trade publications, she questions the influence of external representational systems on Black interiority. 

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