Tyler Coburn

Born in 1983 at New York (New York). Lives and works in New York (New York).

Joining Forces with the Unknown

Exhibition

from 11 Oct to 23 Oct 2016

Tyler Coburn questions tensions in our contemporary world, the relation between waged and leisure time, the inner self and the social media public space, the virtual world and the infrastructures it breeds.

Tyler Coburn received a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He also participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2014–2015. He write regularly for art magazines like frieze, e-flux journal, Dis, Mousse and Rhizome. His performances, texts and installations had been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), South London Gallery, Kunstverein (Munich), at the Kunsthalle Wien, in CCA (Glasgow), Sculpture Center (New York) and at Power Station of Art (Shanghai).

Tyler Coburn, Ergonomic Futures, 2016. Furniture designed in collaboration with Bureau V. Website: www.ergonomicfutures.com. Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo credit: Tyler Coburn. © Tyler Coburn