Taylor Bielecki was born in Royersford, PA, during her time in her undergraduate studies at Penn State, where she earned a BA in English and a BFA in Fine Arts, she found a deep interest in painting, printmaking, and flash fiction writing processes. She uses those mediums to create artworks that take the influence of cinema to bring viewers into the scene, often distorted by rain, light, or at street level. She also self publishes her own flash fiction art book series depicting the “before” or “after” scenes of her paintings, to further her study of how to merge cinema and painting together on the canvas. She now has her own studio space in Gowanus, Brooklyn and she attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to work on her MFA in Drawing and Painting, where she now works as the studio and gallery manager full time.
She finished as a finalist in the Kennedy Center's VSA National Emerging Young Artist program for 2017; where she earned an award of Excellence. Taylor's work has joined the Center's national 2017 tour and she has shown throughout Chester county and Penn State, and has shown prints internationally in a print exchange in Australia and exhibitions in Dubai, India and the Glasgow School of Art. She has also shown paintings internationally in Gallery 24N, PhilaMOCA's juried exhibitions in Philadelphia, Pa. and she finished with an Award of Distinction in Creative York's Emerging Visions national juried exhibition in York, Pa in 2018.
She takes inspiration from her mentors John Bowman, Ann Shostrom, and Michael Brennan, music, such as Nick Cave, Elvis, and Ozzy Osborne, and inspiration from her family and friends who keep her moving forward in support of her goals and dreams as both an artist and a writer.