Tyler Matheson

Tyler Matheson (he/him) is a queer interdisciplinary research-based artist living in Tkarón:to, Canada. Matheson is a Ph.D. student in McMaster University’s Communications, New Media, and Culture program and Gender and Social Justice Diploma program. He holds a B.F.A. from York University and M.F.A. from the University of Waterloo. His work has been exhibited at Orchid Contemporary, Hamilton; Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga; Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury; The University of Waterloo Art Gallery; Hamilton Artists Inc.; Art Gallery Burlington; Art Gallery of Mississauga; Art Mûr, Montreal; and the plumb, Lonsdale Gallery, Gallery TPW, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Trinity Square Video, all Toronto. Matheson has participated in residencies at McMaster University (Hamilton), Plug In ICA Summer Institute (Winnipeg), and Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto). Tyler's work has been published in PUBLIC Journal, Cornelia, Femme Art Review, Off Centre, Peripheral Review, and dArt Magazine. He is a founding member of the multi-artist collaboration QueerSoftOrange, and actively works under this pseudonym. Matheson acknowledges and appreciates the support of his practice by the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funding.