Cedric Tai
I am an un-disciplinary artist and neurodivergent educator who thinks through sculpture, talking, writing, performance and experimental exhibitions. A friend called me 'Pathologically Curious’, which is the most tender way I’ve ever heard my ADHD (aka Time-Blindness, aka Intention Deficit Disorder, aka Interest-Based Neurotype) described back to me. Born in Detroit, residing in LA, with an art teaching certification from Michigan State University and MFA From the Glasgow School of Art.
Some of my work is setup systematically (coding / spreadsheets / workshops / repetition) so that I can focus on the lively way that I want to elicit a response from a specific audience. Other works are like love letters, or are intentionally not efficient, wherein I come to know someone/something through immersing myself in an intimate process. Often the work ultimately reveals something about neurodivergent experience, labor and politics.
Awards: 2009 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, a 2015 Knight Foundation Challenge Grant, a 2016 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and The Brutus Fund.
Solo Exhibitions: "Concept Structure Torture Survival Title", New City Space, Glasgow (2011), "Indirectly Yours", Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow (2013), "We Need More ________!", Re:View Contemporary (2014), "Amateur Strategies", UCLA (2016), “50 Bad Artworks”, Casa Lü, Mexico City (2020).