Erin Tyler 

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Studio Practice, Curiouser & Curiouser, Kansas City, KS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025, Ordinary Signs, Practical Magic, Carolla Arts Exhibition Space, Springfield, MO

2025, Subset, Randy Bacon Gallery, Springfield, MO

2024, Sightlines, Obelisk Gallery, Springfield, MO

2024, “Care” site-specific installation/performance, Open Window, Red Gate Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2023, Missouri State University Juried Student Exhibition, Brick City Gallery, Springfield, MO. Juror: Caleb Taylor, Kansas City-based artist. Awarded: Best Graduate work.

2023, Collective/Difference, OH Gallery, Springfield, MO.

2022, Archetypes, The Set, Miami, FL

2022, Make to Know, Brick City Gallery, Springfield, MO

2022 Shœings, Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2020 The Art of Collage, Obelisk Gallery, Springfield, MO

2020 Collaborations, Obelisk Gallery, Springfield, MO

2019 Blackout, Obelisk Gallery, Springfield, MO

2019 West Central, Q-Enoteca, Springfield MO

2018 Piece by Piece,  Brick City, Springfield, MO

2018 Open Studios, Idea X Factory, Springfield, MO

2017 Pop-Up Art Show, Q-Enoteca, Springfield, MO

CURATORIAL WORK

2024 Current State, (Co-Curatorial with Director of Exhibitions Jodi McCoy), Carolla Arts Exhibition Center, Springfield, MO.

About

Erin Tyler is a multidisciplinary, process-based artist living and working in Springfield, Missouri. Her work spans painting, collage, photography, drawing, assemblage, and writing, often blending analog and digital processes to explore belief, perception, and the hidden power of the everyday. Through intuitive arrangements and abstract visual systems, she investigates how materiality, care, and attention shape our understanding of meaning.

Erin recently recieved her MFA in Visual Studies at Missouri State University (May 2025). In 2023, she completed her first artist residency at the Villa Lena Foundation in Palaia, Italy. She has exhibited her work regionally throughout the Midwest, including a solo exhibition in Kansas City and numerous group exhibition. In 2023, she was invited to create a site-specific installation for Archetypes, a multidisciplinary art event in Miami.

Erin has taught studio art courses at Missouri State University and Missouri Fine Arts Academy and has led workshops at the Springfield Art Museum, The Villa Lena Foundation (Palaia, IT) , and The Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO.) 

EDUCATION

2025 - MFA Visual Studies, Missouri State University

2018 BFA - Painting, Missouri State University

2018 BSED - Art & Design, Missouri State University

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2023 October Creative Collaborator, The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO.

2023 Artist in Residence, Villa Lena Foundation, July 23 Tuscany, Italy.

2023 Best Graduate Award, Juried Student Exhibition Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Drawing I, Missouri State University

Visual Arts Faculty, Missouri Fine Arts Academy 2019 - 2025

Visual Arts Instructor, Springfield Art Museum

Placeworks Artist, Springfield Art Museum

Visual Arts Instructor, Springfield Dream Center

PRESS

Greta Cross, “This New Art Exhibit Represents ‘pin drop’ of Missouri Contemporary Art” Springfield News-Leader, Cover Feature, July 14, 2024. 

Missouri State University Reynolds College of Arts & Letters Blog, "Carolla Arts Exhibition Center Presents Current State"
Missouri State University, July 12, 2024.

Missouri State University Reynolds College of Arts & Letters Blog, "MFA Student Erin Tyler Gives Workshop at Pulitzer Arts Foundation," June 10, 2024. Link

Missouri State University Reynolds College of Arts & Letters Blog, “Graduate Student Erin Tyler Reflects on Her Artistic Practice” Missouri State University, January 18, 2024.