Taylor Ashby Hawkins, (b. 1990, Louisville, Kentucky) lives and works in New York. Hawkins attended Columbus College of Art and Design for Painting, earned his BFA in 2012, Shortly after attended Columbia University in NewYork and received his MFA in 2017. Their work uses narrative representation to reveal traces of fantasy, subcultures, sci-fi,and the ability to envision hybrid identities. Through the use of fashion and choreographed poses these figures take on motifs of the digital world into a physical dialogue that can articulate a generations relationship to reality.