Taylor Sizemore’s artistic practice is a contemporary twist on the still life genre; using memories, objects and patterns to describe a life lived from her perspective. She works with oil paint on canvas, along with handmade pine frames. Sizemore has familial roots in the small coal mining town of Grundy, Virginia and grew up in Okinawa, Japan. She currently resides in the suburbs outside of Washington, DC. Sizemore graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in painting and drawing and a minor in art history at Longwood University. During her time in Farmville, she worked as an artist assistant and exhibited at galleries including the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts and the Bedford Gallery, where she received first place for a photography narrative included in the exhibition “Art and the Archives”.  In 2023 Sizemore was contracted by the National Gallery of Art for events including “Homegrown” and “Poetry is a Country”, and was a recipient of the Carol Bird Ravenal Art Award for artistic research. Most recently, Sizemore co-curated “Holding Hands, Holding Space'' at the Katzen Art Center, an MFA invitational exhibition fostering care and community among artists. She has also exhibited with The Valdosta National (GA), Sitar Art Center (DC), and Goodwin House (VA). Sizemore has works on paper and prints hosted at Transformer Gallery in Adams Morgan (DC). Her work resides in personal collections across the country, in Berlin, and Japan. Sizemore is currently working on her Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and graduate assistantship at American University.