Spanning writing, performance, sculpture, video, and installation, Tyler Coburn’s artwork broadly considers how notions of “subjectivity” and “the self” are defined and refined in scientific, legal, military, and technological contexts. He works in a research-oriented, interdisciplinary, and occasionally collaborative manner, involving the participation of those working within the fields in question. Coburn has presented work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bergen Konsthall; Kunsthalle Wien; Hayward Gallery, London; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Art Sonje Center, Seoul. He participated in the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016) and 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014). Coburn is the author of several books, including I’m that angel (2012); Robots Building Robots (2013), published by the Center for Contemporary Arts Glasgow; and Richard Roe (2019) and Solitary (2022), both published by Sternberg Press. His texts have appeared in e-flux journal, Frieze, ArtReview, Dis, Mousse, LEAP, and Rhizome.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Visual Arts