Taj Richardson (b. The Bronx, NY, 1999) is an artist, designer, and curator currently based in Chicago with an interest in rendering and analyzing imaginative spaces through multiple mediums. Influenced by his relationship with escapism and memories, Taj combines analog/traditional methods with digital programs to create intimate moments between people and spaces. Taj is also one of the co-founders and editors of Write That Down!, a seasonal zine based collection of artifacts, art, and stories that captures the current moment in Chicago from a radical, queer, and experimental perspective.

Taj’s curatorial and editorial practice uses analysis to construct narratives through conceptual and spatial interventions. Art and design can redefine a space by providing unique points of interaction and usher people to new experiences. Working through this lens draws attention to spaces, artworks, identities, and experiences at the corners and thresholds of society–places we pass by or avoid. His interdisciplinary methods are fueled by varying mediums and processes that come together to make an engaging and thoughtful presentation where the architecture becomes the framework and physical frame for viewers to interpret their realities.

He earned a BFA and a B.Arch from Rhode Island School of Design where he studied architecture and printmaking in 2022 and was an Urban Ecology Fellow at Sweet Water Foundation in 2022.

Image: Exhibition curated by Richardson titled Reflections, 2024