Kim Rae Taylor

Kim Rae Taylor is a South Florida-based visual artist and educator whose mixed media work explores themes drawn from history, gender and the environment. Her work has been exhibited in various venues in south Florida, the U.S., and abroad. Notable publications featuring her work include, Modernist Poetics of Ageing, by Jade Elizabeth French (Oxford University Press), Collage Saves the World (Kolaj Institute), and the book cover of Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa, by Ashley Currier (Cambridge University Press).

Her professional career includes roles as background artist for animated cartoons, illustrator and art director, along with product design and development work in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Hong Kong. She has been an artist in residence at Taipei Artist Village,Taiwan; Red Gate Beijing, China; Cill Rialaig, Ireland; and the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach.

Taylor earned her MFA from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati, and BFA from the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Additional studies include graduate coursework with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati, and the University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy. She earned an Initial Diploma from the Metáfora Center for Art Therapy Studies, Barcelona, Spain.

Taylor has taught for the University of Cincinnati for the last two decades, with a focus in studio art for non-majors; she developed an online art history survey course examining women artists in the history of Western Art—a class she has taught remotely for the last five years. Additional teaching includes local community art classes and workshops.