Tyler Eash, 1988, Táisidam/Marysville, Turtle Island/USA, is a Maidu 2-Spirit artist, poet, performer, and curator with Modoc and Irish descent. As a queer artist of both Indigenous “american” and European heritage, their work ties together the censored histories between the colonised and colonial and engages the medium of identity as the last frontier of true sovereignty. In their practice, the body and its ancestral history presents both a document and an avatar to represent the desires of a post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-gender self; becoming an interface between their Indigenous world view and the colonial realms of “high culture”. Eash explores this frontier in a post-disciplinary fashion; using painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film, music, poetry and performance as a means to reclaim space, history, and an identity that has been endangered by the California Genocide and the colonial invention of the “California Dream”.

With recent exhibitions curated by Danielle Seewalker (Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) and Angelica Trimble-Yanu (Oglála Lakȟóta Sioux Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) and with a commission from Māori/Fijian Seer, Janelle Murphy, Te Rarawa and Ngati Tuwharetoa, descendant of Dame Whina Cooper, “Mother of the Nation” of Aotearoa (NZ) and Tongan curator Natasha Hanisi, Eash’s practice serves as a bridge between colonial and colonised Peoples. Tyler Eash holds a Masters in Fine Arts with Distinction from Goldsmiths University of London, 2019.

Tyler Eash works between London, UK, and the forests of the Maidu in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Tyler Eash is represented in the UK by Nicoletti Contemporary.

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: Hoówen, Living Land Collective, 8 Dover Street, Mayfair, London, UK, Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA,TI, 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 present, Kunstraum, London, UK, Block Universe and The Swiss Church, London, UK (2018); All places shall be hell that is not heaven, Deptford, London, UK (2018); A Handful of Uncertainty and Joy, Chalton Gallery, London, UK (2017); Full Moon in the Daytime, R/SF Projects, San Francisco, CA, TI (2017).