[1] Gary Taxali was born in Chandigarh, India and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[3][4] Taxali has lectured at various art schools and belongs to the IPA, (Illustrators’ Partnership of America) and the Stamp Advisory Committee for Canada Post.
[5][6][7] He has been involved with professional associations including the Juno Awards (Screening Committee), The Society of Illustrators, the National Magazine Awards, the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, and 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration.
He highlights consumer insecurities of today's society using humor and reliable imagery with a comical twist and current societal paradoxes such as human relationships, love, isolation, economic despair and frustration.
[13][14][15] Taxali’s mediums are mixed-media works on paper, screenprinting, drawings and paintings using repurposed materials in a style inspired by vintage comics, typography and advertising.