Henry Taylor (born 1958) is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

[19] Taylor's painterly style has been variously described as sensuous, vibrant, bold, fast and loose, full of empathy, generosity, and love, and the visual equivalent to blues music, while retaining a profound critical social sensibility.

[11][14][15][20] His work has been lauded for maintaining an impossible balance between careful and sophisticated art-world references with a seemingly spontaneous and natural expressiveness.

[21] Taylor's oeuvre has been aligned within various American lineages, including the portraiture tradition of Alice Neel, and the work of Harlem Renaissance painters such as Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, and compared with his peer Kerry James Marshall.

[25][26][27][28][29][30] In 2023, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia, in which he presented the solo show Henry Taylor: Nothing Change, Nothing Strange.

[31] Also in 2023, Taylor collaborated with rapper and music businessman Pharrell Williams on designs for the 2024 Spring Season men's collection for luxury brand Louis Vuitton.