Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Lucien Castaing-Taylor studied at University of California, Berkeley. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is art. Employment is recorded with Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. Work by Lucien Castaing-Taylor is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at Cambridge University and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley under Paul Rabinow. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film Sweetgrass (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal Visual Anthropology Review (1991–94).

• In and Out of Africa (1992, with Ilisa Barbash) • Made in USA (1997, with Ilisa Barbash) • Sweetgrass (2009, with Ilisa Barbash) • The High Trail (2010) • Leviathan (2012, with Véréna Paravel) • Caniba (2017, with Véréna Paravel) • De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, with Véréna Paravel)