Jason deCaires Taylor

Jason DeCaires Taylor was born in Great Britain in 1974 and is currently based in Mexico. In 1997, Taylor earned a BA in Sculpture and Ceramics from Camberwell College of Art, in London. He learned traditional stone carving techniques at Canterbury Cathedral, and worked in the field of concert set design, producing projects on a grand scale. In 2006, Taylor created the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies, which consists of over 65 individual works and covers an area of 2,624 square feet (800 square meters), included among the top 25 wonders of the world by National Geographic. In 2010, Taylor founded the Museo Subacuático de Arte (MuSA), located in Cancún, Mexico, where he created and installed over 450 life-size figurative works under water, which occupy an area of 1,640 square feet (500 square meters) and weigh over 200 tons, collectively. The artist has received a tremendous amount of press including National Geographic, Vogue, CNN, BBC and Discovery Channel. One of Taylor’s images, titled Lost Correspondent was featured as the cover art for Ukelele Songs, a solo album from Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, released in 2011. A monograph of the artist’s work will be published by Chronicle Books in the Spring of 2014.

	Jason deCaires Taylor Human Nature Gallery I Solo Exhibition Jun 30 thru Jul 28, 2012
	Aakash Nihalani, Jason deCaires Taylor, Olek, WK SCOPE-Miami 2011, Booth E09 International Contemporary Art Fair NE 1st Avenue @ NE 30th Street Wynwood District, Miami, FL 33127 Nov 29 thru Dec 4, 2011