Al Taylor was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1948, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. He moved to New York in 1970, where he would continue to live and work until his death in 1999. His work is found in a number of prominent public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. A retrospective of the artist’s prints opened at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in September 2010, and travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, in spring 2011.