TAYLOR HOSFORD
MA candidate in Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder
BIO
Taylor Hosford is a second year graduate student and MA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. They are originally from Houston, Texas, and they graduated from the University of North Texas with a BA in Art History in 2017. As an undergraduate, their research focused on gender, representation, and identity, with an extensive case study on the life and work of Rosa Bonheur. Their current research expands upon these themes to consider transgender visual cultures and identity production in works being produced in the last thirty years. They are interested in the potentials of a transgender phenomenology, as well as the intersection between queer identity, craft, “amateurship,” and activist-centered artwork.
EDUCATION
August 2014 - December 2017
BA UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DENTON
Bachelor's degree in Art History and minor in Women and Gender Studies. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
August 2018 - May 2020
MA UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
Master's degree in Art History. Research focus on queer and transgender contemporary art.
MY EXPERIENCE
Background & Expertise
GRADUATE ASSISTANT, VISUAL RESOURCES CENTER
Graduate Assistant at the Visual Resources Center on the CU Boulder Campus, assisting in scanning, processing, and cataloging visual materials for students and faculty.
August 2018 - August 2019
COLLECTIONS AND REGISTRATION AIDE, CU ART MUSEUM
Assistant to the Registrar and Museum Collection Manager, aiding in database entry and cleanup, processing of incoming accessions, and reorganization of archival material.
August 2018 - May 2019
TEACHER'S ASSISTANT, CU BOULDER
Teacher's Assistant, leading three recitations per semester in a course on World Art
August 2019 - present
MY SKILLS
RESEARCH
DATA PROCESSING
COMMUNICATION
"Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future."