Bethany Taylor received her BFA from the University of Southern California and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues nationally and internationally including, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, D.C.; DePaul Museum, Chicago; Post, Los Angeles; Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington; Museum for Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California, The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida, The Musei di Genova Raccolte Frugone, Genova Nervi, Italy, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland, Werkstadt, Berlin Germany; The Nelimarkka Museum, Alajärvi, Finland among others.
Her individual and collaborative work has been written about in such publications as Art Papers, New Art Examiner, The Washington Post, Seattle Times, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, The LA Weekly, Rocky Mountain News, Suomi-USA Magazine, Northern Ireland Scene, Worldwide Review, London among others. She received a individual artist’s grant from the Seattle Arts Commission and has several works in the Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection. She is one of the founding members of SOIL artist run gallery in Seattle Washington, and her art, curatorial work, and writing was featured in the book, Soil Artist-Run Gallery 1995-2005, funded by Art Patch, King County Lodging Tax, and The Washington State Arts Commission.
Bethany Taylor is an Associate Professor of Drawing at the University of Florida and co-taught the nationally recognized foundations program (WARP) The Workshop for Art Research and Practice for many years. Her teaching experience also includes a UF Quest course in art and social justice, graduate interdisciplinary seminars, as well as undergraduate/graduate study abroad courses in storytelling and portable art practices in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
She currently lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.