Tyler James (b. 1992) is a photographer and cameraman whose images wander at the edges of loneliness, memory, and affective resilience. His images dig into the quietness of the mundane; making them threshold spaces in which absence is as real as presence. Derived from the turmoil of his own existence, James' images carry the mark of the unspoken, psychic density of what and where they stand for beyond what they depict.
With a keen eye for light and shape, James composes pictures that vibrate with contained tension. Shadows elongate, reflections warp, and the ordinary is made transcendent; charged with meanings that remain tantalizingly out of reach. His photographs entice subjects to pause, to gaze a second time, and to see themselves in the territories between what is observed and what is experienced.
There is a weakness in James' work, an acknowledgment of the impermanence of life and the force required. Each photograph is an act of resistance, an act of protest against the expendability of the mundane. It is a photography of monument and remembrance; a testament that even the mundane space holds the weight of a world.
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Exhibitions
2025 - Group Exhibition — Loosen — MILLEPIANI — Rome, IT
2025 - Group Exhibition — NCOA This is 75 — Pars Place — Vienna, VA
2025 - Charity Auction — 2025 Art of Possibilities Art Show — Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute — Golden Valley, MN
2024 - Group Exhibition — Photo A-GoGo — Bakery Photographic Collective — Portland, ME
2024 - Group Exhibition — Bali Art Space 2024 — Superlative Gallery — Bali, Indonesia
2024 - Group Exhibition — “Beyond the Photograph” — RI Center for Photographic Arts — Providence, RI
2023 - Group Exhibition — “Text-ure 2023” — CICA Musem — Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2023 - Group Exhibition — NCOA “Aging Well for All” — Arlington, VA
2023 - Group Exhibition — SFA Texas National Art Competition — SFA University — Nacogdoches, TX
2023 - Group Exhibition — “Forever Framed” — NEAL DIGITAL Gallery — Beijing, China (documentation of show)
2023 - Group Exhibition — 2023 Pacific Northwest Drawers — Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts — Portland, OR
2023 - Group Exhibition — Grants Pass Museum of Art — Grants Pass, OR
2022 - Group Exhibition — “New Years Yacht Party” — Obscura DAO — Oncyber.io
2022 - Group Exhibition — “13 to 30” — Soho Photo Gallery — Soho, NYC
2022 - Solo Exhibition — “Into the Night” — Narrowsburg Union Gallery — Narrowsburg, NY
2022 - Group Exhibition — “Artist Book Market” — Public Functionary Gallery — NE Mpls, MN
2022 - Group Exhibition — “People 2022” — Biafarin — Canada
2022 - Group Exhibition — “Emptiness 2022” — Biafarin — Canada
2022 - Group Exhibition — SUGOI x Sunrise Art Club #NFTNYC2022
2022 - Solo Presentation/Keynote — The Lower Drawer — Brooklyn, NYC
2021 - Group Exhibition — “HOME ‘21” — Lensculture
2020 - Group Exhibiton — NCOA “Aging Well for All” — Arlington, VA
2019 - Solo Exhibition — “Monochrome Minnesota” — Rafter Penthouse Gallery Space — Minneapolis, MN
2017 - Solo Exhibition — “Monochrome Minneapolis” — Wesley Andrews Gallery — Minneapolis, MN
2017 - Group Exhibition — RAW: Natural Born Artists — Chicago, IL
2017 - Group Exhibition — RAW: Natural Born Artists — Minneapolis, MN
2017 - Solo Exhibition — “Colors of Minnesota” — Sencha — Dinkytown, MN
2017 - Group Exhibition — “Made at MCAD 2017” — Minneapolis, MN
Publications
Interview — Lensculture HOME ‘21 Photobook
Group Zine — Hutspot Magazine — issue 04
Article & Interview — Northeaster Newspaper — Vol. 42, No. 24
Interview — Star Tribune
Interview — MCAD Magazine
Sponsorship — Leica Camera USA
Interview — Artists at Rafter Apartments - Book
Interview — Leicaphilia.com
Interview — Leicarumors.com
Interview — WCCO
Awards
Winner — SFA Texas National Art Competition
Finalist — HOME ‘21 LensCulture Competition
Finalist — 2020 NCOA Aging Well for All
Winner — 2018 Made at MCAD Show — Best Newcomer