Selected Awards
• Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellow, Gallery Aferro Newark (2018)
• Future Faculty Fellowship, Temple University (2014)
• VCCA Residency, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Fellowship (2014)
• Ox-Bow Residency, Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship (2013)
• Established Artist Grant, City of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance (2013)
• Emerging Artist Grant, City of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance (2008)
• Poetry Slam International (Houston Area) Poetry Grand Slam Champion (2005)
• Amnesty International (Houston) Poetry Slam Champion (2005)

Solo Art Exhibitions
• Archive of Truth, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA (2017)
• Trill Ion, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA (2016)
• Optimus PrimAtive Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX (2014)
• Prequel: Invisible Studio, Skowhegan School of Painting, Skowhegan, ME (2012)
• Re:Vision Pro:Cess, Prairie View University Gallery, curated by Lauren Kelly (2009)
• Mourning Sunrise/Analog Allusion, Round28: Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2008)
• Beats, Rhymes & Mike, Houston, TX (2009)
• Introducing, BH Gallery, Houston, TX (2003)

Selected Performances: Visual, Poetry, Dance, or Multi-Disciplinary
• Fold & Triple Entendre, by Niurca Marquez and Michael K Taylor, Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, NY (2018)
• Future Reading, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA (2017)
• Alchemist Archive Variations (w/ Skowhegan Performs), Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens,
NY(2016)
• Patriot Acts, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA (2016)
• Poet Sculpture, Poetry by Michael K Taylor selected by Sam Jablon, Smack Mellon & Queens
Museum & Art in Odd Places NY (2014-2015)
• Untitled by Victoria Marks, Michael K. Taylor, and Hannah Beth, Inside Out at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl (2013)
• Coming Through the Fear of Impossibility on a Myth” by Abijan Johnson and M. K. Taylor,
University Museum at Texas Southern University (2013)
• Life Archived Through Art by M.K. Taylor, Communograph Project Houston, TX (2011)
• Dixie Frwy by M.K. Taylor, Inside Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl (2011)
• Texts for Nothing by Harold Mendez, Future Plan and Program curated by Steffani Jemison,
Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston,TX (2011)
• Silent by M.K. Taylor, Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet curated by Jamal Cyrus and
Steffani Jemison, New Museum, New York, NY (2011)

Selected Group Art Exhibitions

• Studio Montclair Pages, Montclair, NJ (2022)
• Exhibition at Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ (2022)
• Woodmere Annual, Woodmere Museum, curated by Odili Odita, Philadelphia, PA (2016)
• Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, Ice Box Project Philadelphia, PA (2016)
• Coming Through the Gap, curated by Robert Pruitt, Texas Southern University Museum (2013)
• C.A.C. Space, Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX (2011)
• Inside Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2011)
• Communograph Project, curated by Ashley Hunt, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2011)
• What’s The New News, curated by Nathaniel Donnett, Various Locations, Houston, TX (2011)
• DARe To Go FURther, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX (2010)
• Art Of, MOCAH Gallery, Houston, TX (2010)
• Las Comadres, Talento Bilingue de Houston and Discovery Green Park (2010)
• Amnesia Project Platform 7: Probe, curated by Simon Njami, Nairobi Arts Trust (CCAEA) and
GoDown Arts Center, Nairobi, Kenya (2009)
• Awakenings Movement Exhibit, Paa Ya Paa Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya (2009)
• Art Crawl, Elder Street Artists Lofts, Houston, TX (2009)
• Houston Collects, curated by Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2008)
• Heros Alter Egos, Houston Art Alliance 125Space, Houston, TX (2008)
• A Time For Change, curated by Catherine D. Anspon, Debroah Colton Gallery (2008)
• Art-Official Intelligence, curated by Jason Woods, Museum of Texas Southern University (2008)
• Havin' Their Say, curated by Vicki Meek, South Dallas Cultural Arts Center (2008)
• Light, M Squared Gallery, Houston, TX (2007)
• Songai Independent Black Film Festival, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2007)
• Audio Visual Swap (AVSwap), Angelika Film Center and River Oaks Theatre (2007)
• MFAH Five-A 11th Annual Citywide African American Art Exhibition, GGallery (2007)
• Private Stash, Brandywine Workshop, curated by Eugene Foney, Philadelphia, PA (2006)
• Private Stash, curated by Eugene Foney, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2006)
• Layered Evidence, curated by Caroline Goeser, Susana Monteverde, and Sara Wilson Mckay, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
• The Mentor, Houston Community College, Houston, TX (2002)
• Emergence, FotoFest at the University of Houston, Houston, TX (2002)
• Midtown Visions, Art Square Studios, Houston, TX (2002)

Curatorial Projects
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s 17th Annual Citywide Exhibition, Glassell School of Art (2013)
• Surrounded by Giants: The Photography of Jason Woods, Community Artists’ Collective (2013)
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston: 16th Annual Citywide Exhibition, Various Locations (2013)
• Obitas, Community Artists’ Collective in Collaboration with Talento Bilingue de Houston (2011)
• Offline: International Film & Video, Community Artists’ Collective (2010)
• Eco-logic: Environmental Art, Co-Curator Divya Murthy, Community Artists’ Collective (2010)
• Love Movement: Visual Art and Performance Exhibition, Community Artists’ Collective (2008)
• Of Women, Co-Curator Sarah Trotty, Community Artists’ Collective (2008)
• Future Present Series Vol 2, Community Artists’ Collective (2007)
• Future Present Series Vol 1, Community Artists’ Collective (2006)

Artist/Curatorial Lectures (selected)
• Re-framing Black Art: A Matter of Social Justice Panel Discussion at Rutgers Graduate School of
Education with Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute (2020)
• Do Something: Reflecting on Racism and the Tyler Experience
• Selected students from Tokyo University of the Art, Tokyo Japan (2015)
• NASA, NASA Houston (Technology, Entertainment, Design), Houston, TX (2010)
• Artist SPEAKeasy, FreshArts/Spacetaker, Houston, TX (2010)
• American Artist Talk, GoDown Arts Center, Nairobi, Kenya (2009)
• State of the Black Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (2008)

Bibliography (selected)
• Molly Glentzer, Artists Journey Forward at TSU Exhibit, Houston Chronicle, (2013)
• Troy Schultz, Capsule Art Reviews, Houston Press (2008)
• Dr. Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo Volume 34:1, artwork and interview (2011)
• John Hope Franklin and Alvia J. Wardlaw, Collecting African American Art (2008)
• MFAH(5a) Citywide Exhibition Catalog Cover (2007)
• Andy Moore, Poetry Master, CODED Houston Mag (2006)