Tyler Burton

Tyler Burton creates sculptures and installations that explore issues such as shelter, environmental impact and human experience. Her large scale figurative work intertwines personal stories with broader cultural and environmental narratives. Large figures and migratory birds in abstract form make up the series SOS, a look at the Salton Sea and California’s water issues. In her Fossils of the Future series she explores our dependence on single use plastics through large layered monoliths. Her series Artifacts of a Fire show the remnants of large burnt trees, sourced from California wildfires, mounted on concrete and layered in select sections with shaped steel, a figurative armor.

Tyler Burton received her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography and is the recipient of six Artists’ Residencies at The Banff Art Centre in Canada and one at Buffalo Creek Art Center in Nevada. She is represented by several galleries in the U.S.

Her work is collected nationally and internationally and has been exhibited at The American Museum of Ceramic Art and The Whyte Museum of Canada. Burton lives and works in Southern California.