ABOUT
Photograph: Zoe Urness, 2025
Tyler Eash is an interdisciplinary artist of Maidu, Modoc and Irish settler descent. Through the use of sculpture, painting, performance, installation, film, poetry, and sound; Eash develops exhibitions that materialise ancestral wisdom into contemporaineity. As a means of grappling with global discourses on occupation, Indigeneity, displacement, and dispossesion, Eash engages their own historically opposing lineages that are a result of the most severe and recent genocide in US history. Through out their international career, Eash has referenced their homelands, which served as the epicenter of the California Gold Rush/Genocide. Through this history of mineral extraction and cultural devastation, Eash meditates upon the impact material wealth has on the environment and society. By addressing their ancestral servitude under the "Act for the Government and the Protection of Indians", they interrogate assimilation and domestication through compositions of opposing objects and actions. The "wild and natural" is juxtaposed against the "industrial and machined" which inevitably collapses a falsehood of dualities by rejecting exteriorly imposed categorisations. Tyler Eash holds an Masters in Fine Arts with Distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London (2019). Their work has been featured at institutions internationally, including at Sainsbury Centre in the UK and the Centre d’art Contemporain de Nîmes in France. Tyler Eash is based in the Hudson Valley and unceded Maidu territory in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Selected solo exhibitions: “All the World’s Horses”, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (2023), “Channel 1", Further, San Francisco, CA, TI (2022); “Marysville, Oh Holy Land”, Kupfer Projects, London, UK (2022); “Marysville, Oh Holy Land”, Four Fourteen Gallery, Marysville, CA, TI (2022); “Loreum”, NICOLETTI, London, UK (2020), and “Mountain”, B. Dewitt Gallery, London, UK (2019).
Selected group exhibitions and performances: “Sea Inside”, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK (2025), “Care for You”, Sherbert Green Gallery, London, UK (2025) “Channel”, Centre d’Art Contemporaine de Nimes, Nimes, FR (2024) “Hoówen”, Living Land Collective, 8 Dover Street, Mayfair, London, UK (2024), “Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA,TI (2024) “Drück nur auf die Klinke”, Jägerschere, Niederer-Fläming, DE (2022); “La forme de l’eau”, Galerie Joseph, Paris, FR (2022); “Sun Kissed,” NÉVÉ, Los Angeles, CA, TI (2022); “Allusion to a body no longer presen”t, Kunstraum, London, UK, Block Universe and The Swiss Church, London, UK (2018)