Tyler Thomas Rowland (b. 1978 Reno, NV) was raised in Phoenix, AZ and lives and works in New York City. He has taught art at Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts, Vassar College, Massachusetts College of Art, Northeastern University, and SOMA Summer, and has worked at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Arts. He received his BA from Vassar College and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Rowland’s bi-coastal extravaganza Artist’s Uniform (2002-2015) turned the act of everyday living into a thirteen-year live artwork while avoiding social media, which emerged over the same period. If you missed it IRL, it is featured on his website along with his Realist Manifesto (2004-2022). Over the last decade, Rowland has been staging installations and exhibitions in his family’s one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side, which also houses an 18-square-foot studio called B808B; a collection of 100+ artworks that Rowland purchased and installed; an art, teaching, and genealogy library; and his archives.

Amongst other venues, his artwork has been shown at Murray Guy Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, May 68 Books and Records, and Art Cake in New York; SEPTEMBER and Incident Report Viewing Station in Hudson; MassMOCA in North Adams; Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia; Box 13 Artspace in Houston; ESTHETICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL), Shoshana Wayne Gallery, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in Los Angeles; and UNAM’s Casa del Lago and Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros in Mexico City.