Taylor Stoneman

Born in Phoenix, AZ / Works in Berkeley, CA

BIO

Taylor Stoneman (b. 1990 Phoenix, AZ) is an environmental painter living and working in Berkeley, CA. She is currently a Root Division Studio Artist in San Francisco. Through colorful oil paintings probing human dependence on and complicity in wounding and dominating the Earth, her work examines the meaning of wilderness and the dualities of harm found in the extraction of earth’s resources. Utilizing both abstraction and surrealism to tell urgent stories of environmentalism, she explores issues of wilderness loss, resource extraction, consumerism, and imperialism. Her first solo exhibition, Earthbody, is forthcoming in Fall 2025 at MADSEN Gallery in Los Altos, CA. Taylor’s work has been juried into exhibitions throughout California and across the country. She completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center in February 2025 and was featured in the January 2024 issue of Suboart Magazine.

My art, which is rooted in my emotional connection to the wilderness, interrogates how humans manipulate the physical land and resources of the earth, and how we see (or don’t see) those changes. Via my paintings, I enjoy thinking through themes of what belongs in a physical space (and what does not); which land we choose to alter, destroy or preserve; and how we might account for and, in some cases, reverse the impact of such alterations.