Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist who’s been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018. Tyler's art practice is centred in her interest in notions of ephemerality, interconnectedness, and one’s place within the cosmos. Drawing inspiration from both physical and phenomenal elements of the natural world, she makes work that speculates ecological futures, is guided by ecological grief, and investigates the natural archive. She works across ceramic sculpture, watercolour painting, and social practice.
She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016 and was awarded the Artist Alliance Graduate Award in 2016. In 2017, she won the Estuary Art and Ecology Award at Malcolm Smith Gallery in Auckland, NZ and in 2024 she was awarded the Omnia People's Choice Award. She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024), sub-super-, Quality, Melbourne, VIC (2024) Signals, Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2022), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020) and recent group exhibitions include Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2024) and Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC (2024). In 2022 she presented Offerings, a social art installation held at the UNESCO heritage-listed Carlton Gardens in Naarm, Australia, supported by the City of Melbourne Art Grants. Her work is held in the collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC and in private collections throughout Australia, Aotearoa and the USA. She is represented by MARS Gallery.