Biography

Ann Harrold Taylor was born in Sacramento, California. She attended UC Berkeley earning BA degrees in Art History and French while also studying in Aix-en-Provence, France, for one year which included her first introduction to oil painting at the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing. Following her return to the U.S. to graduate from Cal Berkeley, Ann moved to Sacramento and pursued an MFA in Painting at UC Davis where the faculty included Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud, Squeak Carnwath, Cornelia Schulz, Roy De Forest, and David Hollowell. Immediately after earning the MFA graduate degree Ann began teaching as an Adjunct Professor of drawing and painting at several Sacramento area institutions including Sacramento City College and CSU Sacramento, as well as commuting to the San Francisco Art Institute. Ann has exhibited her work at national and international museums, galleries, and universities notably in New York, Japan, France, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Sun Valley, Texas, San Diego, Berkeley, Provincetown, Palm Springs, Hawaii, Sacramento, and Davis. Her work has been reviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Art Papers Magazine, Boise Weekly, The Sacramento Bee, The San Bernardino Sun, South Bend Tribune, Sacramento Magazine, New American Paintings and many others. An article by Zahid Sardar in Marin Magazine, July 2018, features her artist journey and subsequent move to Berkeley, California where she now works full time in a warehouse studio. For more complete information please go to the CV on her website @annharroldtaylor.com.