Sunny Taylor

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Sunny Taylor (born March 21, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona) is a painter and disability rights activist.

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Despite her youth, she has been nominated for numerous prizes including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2003, and was the recipient of the Grand Prize in the 2004 VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists^[1]^[2]. As part of this exhibition her portrait of musician Vic Chesnutt was displayed at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and at galleries across the United States^[3].

She was born with arthrogryposis and uses a wheelchair. She has been active in the Society for Disability Studies and has also engaged in disability rights marches. Her work on the disability rights movement has appeared in Monthly Review^[4], and her Self Portrait with TCE was the first full-color image ever printed in the publication's long history. She has been featured on All Things Considered on National Public Radio^[5], and the Georgia Public Television series State of the Arts.

Her work has also been featured frequently in Flagpole Magazine in her home town, Athens, Georgia.

Taylor now lives and studies in Berkeley, California.