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<div class="bio-panel" id="bio-short" data-words="29"><p><span class="entry-full">james taylor-foster [he/they] is a curator, writer, and cultural leader investigating how the creativity of artists, designers, and thinkers reimagines our world – shaping popular culture and public life.</span></p></div>
<div class="bio-panel" id="bio-medium" data-words="80"><p><span class="entry-full">james taylor-foster [he/they] is a curator, writer, and cultural leader investigating how the creativity of artists, designers, and thinkers reimagines our world – shaping popular culture and public life. </span></p><p><span class="entry-full">Their practice bridges contemporary art, design, architecture, and digital culture, blurring disciplinary boundaries to explore unconventional ways of nurturing institutions and their audiences. This expansive approach is both greenhouse and staging ground: cultivating emergent ideas for wider cultural spheres while assembling many forms of making into seeing, feeling, and imagining anew.</span></p></div>
<div class="bio-panel" id="bio-long" data-words="174"><p><span class="entry-full">james taylor-foster [he/they] is a curator, writer, and cultural leader investigating how the creativity of artists, designers, and thinkers reimagines our world – shaping popular culture and public life. </span></p><p><span class="entry-full">Their practice bridges contemporary art, design, architecture, and digital culture, blurring disciplinary boundaries to explore unconventional ways of nurturing institutions and their audiences. This expansive approach is both greenhouse and staging ground: cultivating emergent ideas for wider cultural spheres while assembling many forms of making into seeing, feeling, and imagining anew.</span></p><p><span class="entry-full">Over the past decade, their curatorial projects and artistic collaborations have traced queer belonging, investigated how creativity meets technology and popular culture, and explored the city as an expressive body. Their most recent group exhibition — <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/674326/worldglimpsing"><em>Worldglimpsing</em></a> — is currently on view in Stockholm, with its second chapter opening in Rotterdam in 2026. Their work, ideas, and creative alliances have been featured in the <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>PIN-UP</em>, <em>London Review of Books</em>, <em>The Economist</em>, <em>e-flux</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, and <em>BBC Culture</em>. They write criticism, fiction, and poetry, and speak regularly at institutions and events internationally.</span></p></div>
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<div class="nav-row"><button class="nav-item" data-section="projects" aria-expanded="false" style="animation-delay: 0.9000000000000001s"><span class="nav-indicator">–</span><span class="nav-label">Projects</span></button><div class="section-panel" id="projects"><p><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2026-27</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/674326/worldglimpsing">Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities</a> II — Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025-</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://arkdes.se/en/calendar/play-overlay/">Play Overlay</a> by Teo Ala-Ruona — ArkDes × MDT with Zodiak, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Arts Promotion Centre Finland</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025-26</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://arkdes.se/en/exhibitions/worldglimpsing/">Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities</a> I — ArkDes/Moderna Museet (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://arkdes.se/en/news/weird-sensation-feels-good-tours-to-hong-kong/">《感官怪奇：走進ASMR的世界》</a> — ArkDes × Design Museum with Gate 33/AIRSIDE (Hong Kong)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024-</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.rigaartweek.com/en-events/meatrack-jtf-x-eter">MEATRACK</a> by jtf × ĒTER, supported by Weekday (Paris, 2024; Rīga, 2025)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/623179/reopening-in-stockholm">The New ArkDes</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2023</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/613790/mycketutsikten">MYCKET: Utsikten</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2023</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/514462/joar-nangogirjegumpi/">Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library</a> by Joar Nango and collaborators, Nordic Countries Pavilion, 18th <em>Biennale Architettura</em> (Venice)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2022</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/465138/weird-sensation-feels-good">WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR</a> — Design Museum × ArkDes (London)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2022</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/470228/watch-and-chill-2-0-streaming-senses/">Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses</a> — ArkDes × MMCA × Sharjah Art Foundation (Seoul; Sharjah; Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2022</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/437164/mira-bergh-and-josefin-zachrisson/">Swedish Girls: Utomhusverket 2022</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm); Alcova 2023 (Milan)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2021</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/399526/studio-ossidianautomhusverket-2021/">Studio Ossidiana: Utomhusverket 2021</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2021-22</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/solicited-proposals/">Solicited: Proposals</a> feat. Esther Choi, Jia Yi Gu, Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi, Vasif Kortun, Prem Krishnamurthy, Maria Lind, Federico Martelli, Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Molemo Moiloa, Shirley Surya with Nikolaus Hirsch, Nick Axel — ArkDes × <em>e-flux</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2020</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/interdependence-video-sweden-response-covid-james-taylor-foster">Interdependence</a> by jtf × Studio Reko, presented by <em>PIN-UP</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2020</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/322199/weird-sensation-feels-good">WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: An Exhibition About ASMR</a> and <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/events/437809/weird-sensation-feels-good">A Virtual Vernissage</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2019</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/265850/cruising-pavilion/">Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex, and Cruising Culture</a> with Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault, Charles Teyssou — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2018</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/214128/space-popularvalue-in-the-virtual/">Space Popular: Value in the Virtual</a> — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2018-23</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/206872/boxen-at-arkdes/">BOXEN</a> by Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter — ArkDes (Stockholm)</span></span></p></div></div>
<div class="nav-row"><button class="nav-item" data-section="writing" aria-expanded="false" style="animation-delay: 1.1s"><span class="nav-indicator">–</span><span class="nav-label">Writing</span></button><div class="section-panel" id="writing"><p><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2026</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://buttmagazine.com/library/butt-38/">when the faggots leave their nest</a>, <em>BUTT</em> #38</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2026</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/6782383/tobias-bradford-s-collecting-shells">Tobias Bradford's "Collecting Shells"</a>, <em>e-flux Criticism</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/6782313/trevor-yeung-s-courtyard-of-detachments">Trevor Yeung's "Courtyard of Detachments"</a>, <em>e-flux Criticism</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/672241/19th-venice-architecture-biennale-intelligens-natural-artificial-collective">19th Venice Architecture Biennale, “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.”</a>, <em>e-flux Criticism</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.park-books.com/en/product/the-new-design-museum/1648"><em>The New Design Museum</em></a>, ed. Beatrice Leanza, Park Books</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/interview-ann-sofie-back">Death-Cleaning with Ann-Sofie Back</a>, <em>Spike</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://mikarottenberg-antimatterfactory.com/asmr/media/mb6sfewb">ASMR: A Story of Mika Rottenberg</a>, Museum Tinguely</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/review-vaginal-davis-moderna-museet-stockholm">Vaginal Davis at Moderna Museet</a>, <em>Spike</em> #80 – <em>The State of the Arts</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.koozarch.com/author/james-taylor-foster">Gutted: A Sympathetic Primer in Six Parts</a>, <em>Koozarch</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2023</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/575585/lisa-tan-s-dodge-and-or-burn">Lisa Tan: "Dodge and/or Burn"</a>, <em>e-flux Criticism</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2023</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.permanentbeta.network/episode/206">ASMRology</a>, <em>Permanent Beta</em>, Fotomuseum Winterthur</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2023</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://ao-publishing.com/product/royal-chambers-wang-soderstrom/"><em>Royal Chambers</em>, Wang & Söderström</a>, Arvinius + Orpheus</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2022</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://extraextramagazine.com/talk/studio-ossidiana-on-the-sentimental-scale-of-the-city/">Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City</a>, <em>Extra Extra</em> #18</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2021</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://in-other-words.co.uk/products/softspot-b-w">softspot</a> by james taylor-foster × OK-RM, InOtherWords</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2020</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/332279/voices-towards-other-institutions-14-james-taylor-foster/">Don’t Fear a Snowflake</a>, <em>Open? Voices (towards other institutions)</em> #14</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2019</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/to-speak-as-if-in-capital-letters-james-taylor-foster-2019/">TO SPEAK AS IF IN CAPITAL LETTERS</a>, <em>Mousse</em> #68</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2018</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.pinupmagazine.org/issues/pinup-25-home-issue">Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief</a>, <em>PIN-UP</em> #25</span></span></p></div></div>
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Choi, <em>The New York Times</em> (22/03, Section S, Page 7)</span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2025</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3303313/hong-kong-asmr-show-triggers-weird-sensation-internet-trend-things-you-can-touch">Hong Kong ASMR show triggers ‘weird sensation’ of internet trend</a> by Ashlyn Chak, <em>South China Morning Post</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a href="https://fuckingyoung.es/james-taylor-foster-x-eter-on-their-one-night-only-installation-meatrack-curated-by-weekday/">James Taylor-Foster × ĒTER on their One Night Only Installation: <em>MEATRACK</em></a> by Anna Barr, <em>Fucking Young!</em></span></span><span class="entry"><span class="entry-year">2024</span><span class="entry-text"><a 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<button class="portrait-close">Close</button>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>