Prize Winner 2019:
Taylor Aldridge
Taylor Renee Aldridge is writer and curator. She is the visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum, or CAAM. Prior to that, she was a writer and independent curator based in Detroit. Along with art critic Jessica Lynne, she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism for Black perspectives. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Art21, ARTnews, Canadian Art, ContemporaryAnd, Detroit MetroTimes, frieze, Harper's Bazaar, Hyperallergic, and SFMoMA’s Open Space. In addition to her work at CAAM, she has organized exhibitions with the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Artist Market, Cranbrook Art Museum, and The Luminary (St. Louis). Taylor was a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Rabkin Prize. She received her MLA from Harvard University with a concentration in museum studies and B.A. from Howard University with a concentration in art history.