BiographyHenry Taylor is an American painter whose vivid, emotionally direct figurative works draw on personal experience, history, and the everyday lives of Black Americans to create portraits that are simultaneously intimate and monumental. He worked as a psychiatric technician before attending CalArts in his thirties, and his contact with patients and community shaped a practice rooted in observation and empathy. His painting FLEE (2017), addressing the killing of Philando Castile, sold for over $1 million at auction, bringing widespread recognition to his decades of work.
