Taylor Knight-Turner is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Pontiac, Michigan.

She holds a BFA in Art from Southern Methodist University and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her research-based practice is informed by cultural anthropology with an emphasis on agriculture, suburbia, and food culture.

Industrialized capitalism impedes our ability to develop relationships with the land we occupy.  Factory farming abstracts food and prevents consumers from knowing how and where their food is produced.  Suburbanization and urbanization sterilize and conform our environments, further distancing us from being in relationship with the land and our non-human communities.  All of this contributes to the Western attitude of viewing the land as a resource to be mined, rather than a matrix of inter-species relationships that can and ought to be reciprocal.  With an anthropological lens, Taylor’s work investigates how to rebuild reciprocity by being in community with the land we occupy and the non-human neighbors we share it with, while also wondering if it’s a lost cause in the face of climate change and ecological destruction.