I explore instantiation—how our technologies cascade through our central nervous systems and etch marks in our flesh. My work documents the arrival of the Chthulucene epoch: post-Anthropocene, tentacular, multi-optic, and multi-specied.
In this novel terrain we consume and digest rapidly shifting currents of change, at velocities that thwart literal articulation. I generate forms to translate these vibrations and extract hyperbolic form from flickering ephemera, blurring the porous boundaries between myth, documentation, artifact and artifice.
Artist Biography
Tyler Kline is a curator and artist living and working in Philadelphia. Kline grew up in Stone Mountain, GA, studied Architecture and Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He received a BA in both Anthropology and Sculpture from Portland State University and an MFA in Installation and Sculpture from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts.
Kline has worked in the sphere of urban interior and exterior intervention for two decades, beginning with creating skate-parks in unused urban spaces in Atlanta, to creating a sculpture garden in the shadows of re-purposed textile mills through Little Berlin in Philadelphia. He makes immersive installations and netart, and creates animated gifs as a way of exploring and constructing glitch theory. Kline’s own point of research within this field is to break the conceptual screen and expose the underlying, subjective, and internal forces that are imprisoned within them by late stage capitalism.
Kline has curated shows at: Atlanta’s Moving Spirits Gallery, Portland’s Martial Arts Gallery, Zeitgeist and Disjecta, as well as Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Little Berlin, Crux Space, and The University of the Arts. He is a strong believer in the power of art to revitalize communities and bring about social change; playing with the porous boundaries between painting, video, sculpture, performance, and printmaking fascinates him.
Kline’s curatorial work braids Visual Anthropology with cross-disciplinary aesthetics, with an interest in emerging media and scientific cross-pollination. Furthermore, Kline is a visual artist who has created installations in Portland, Atlanta, New York and Philadelphia, and exhibited at the Rebeka Templeton Cont., Little Berlin, MASS MoCA, Vox Populi, The Delaware Art Museum, Dumbo Art Center, The Armory, NYC, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia., Washington County Museum of Fine Art, The University of The Arts, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Portland State University, The Savannah College of Art and Design, New Bedford Art Museum, The Goethe Institute of San Francisco, and Disjecta in Portland, OR.
Education
2009 - 2011 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA MFA Candidate
2003 Portland State University, Portland, OR BA, Anthropology and Sculpture magna cum laude
1995 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Painting; Architecture
Awards & Honors
2011 4th Wall Graduate Panelist Winner, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Gilroy Roberts Scholarship
Liberta Award, Best Aluminum Foil Installation
Maryland Metal Inc. Award for Outstanding Entry in Metal, 78th Annual Cumberland Valley Artist Exhibition; Washington County Museum of Fine Art, Hagerstown, MD
2009 PAFA MFA Merit Scholarship (through 2011)
PAFA MFA Academic Scholarship (through 2011)
2007 USUK 8th Annual Iron Pour Symposium, SAW, Salem, NY
2005 Artist Residency, Hungarian Multicultural Center
2003 Portland State University, Portland, OR Magna Cum Laude and Lucille Welch Scholarship
2001 Wilma Sheridan Scholarship
2000 Golden Key National Honors Society
1993 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Presidential Scholarship, Hope Scholarship
2001 Concrete Wave, “Episodes 1 & 2”, Canadian Cable T.V.
Talking Earth with Walt Curtis, KBOO Radio, July
2000 “Artist Profile-Sennterpitation”, Heckler Magazine, November
1999 “Edgy Art”, Our Town, March 24
1996 “Programming Injection”, Transworld Skateboarding, April
Professional experience
Other
2009 Annual Art Auction, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
10x10, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Annual Art Auction, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Inliquid Benefit v.8.0, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Inliquid Benefit v.7.0, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Patrick Kerr Scholarship Art Auction, Minnow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
June Bride: A Night at the Savory, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Art Auction, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Art for Life, Cascade Aids Art Auction, Portland, OR Curator: Michael Klein
2002 Cascade Aids Art Auction, Portland, OR
Exhibitions
Solo
2018 The Golgi Apparatus, Grizzly, Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
Babylon was Built on Fire, HouseGallery1816, Philadelphia, PA
2017 The Tau Ceti Report, Jed Williams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Geistdenkenheit, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Sky/Screen/Veil, Hamilton Hall Public Art Initiative, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Continuous Warlock Integers, Rebekah Templeton Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Upon the Shore of Infinite Static, The University of the Arts Sculpture Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Here Be Dragons, Gallery 8, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Celestial Subterrane, Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2009 SilkWorm, The Life Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Betwixted Between these Crossed Stars, The Hall, Inliquid at the Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Nonesuch, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 Keeping the Hell Hounds Waiting, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Requiem for John Henry, ReLoad, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Ecclesiastical Fortifications, Dazzle, Portland, OR
2000 32 Portraits, Borders Café, Portland, OR
1998 The Human Flame, Moving Spirits Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Two-person
2008 These Ghosts that Haunt Us, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA with Mike McGovern
2003 Burberry Furs and Elderberry Wine, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR with Damon Ayers
2002 Cacophony of One Hand Clapping, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR with Keith Rosson
1998 New Images of Man, Moving Spirits Gallery, Atlanta, GA with Joseph Moore
Group
2020 Well Now WTF, online exhibition @silicon.valet Curator: Lorna Mills, Faith Holland, Wade Wellerstein
Small Favors XV: Expanding the Field, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
InLiquid Benefit & Silent Auction, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
From Kensington with Love: Behind the Veil, Kensington Store Front, Philadelphia, PA
Places for Discovery, The Bodine Center for Cancer Treatment, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Eric Preisendanz
2019 215/610 Contemporary: Juried Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA Curator: Jodi Throckmorton
DesignPhiladelphia: Out of Site, Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Gabby Heit
Germantown Annual, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Cockamamie Wisdom, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Ghost in the Machine, Video in the Realm of Objects, PAFA Historic Landmark Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Art in the Open, Schuylkill Banks, Philadelphia, PA
International Works on Paper Invitation, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Into the Light, Rail Park Benefit, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Bridgette Mayer
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, PaperMill Studios, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Out of Context, Philly Tech Week, Philadelphia, PA Curators: Gabby Heit, Belinda Haikes
Tiny Lights, Flux Factory Self Storage Project, Queens, NY
Dadaclub.online, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Unanchored Geometry, InLiquid at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Homeostasis Lab, The Wrong, online Digital Pavilion
20/92 Film Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Out of Frame, Philadelphia Tech Week Curators: Gabby Heit, Belinda Haikes
On the Air, Digital Art Device Curator: Carlos Cardenas
Philadelphia 2076, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Art Exhibition, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA Juror: John Silvis
New Grounds, Archive Space Project, International Institute for Contemporary Art and Theory, Mangalia, Romania
ShopLifted, Gallery 1201 Terra, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Whats Your Wifi?, North End Studios, Detroit, MI Curator: Molly Soda
Test Patterns, Flux Factory, Queens, NY Curator: Maddie Hewett, Lee Tussman, Roopa Vasudevan
Manufacturing Transparency, Goethe Institut, San Francisco, CA Jurors: Kerry Doran, Sabine Erlenwein, Harlo Holmes, Lindsay Howard
Future Art, Real Future Art Fair, NewHive Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
Art in the Open, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
Screens, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Peter Erickson
Te(ac)h, The Philadelphia Sculptures Gym, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Editions and the Love of a Friend, Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Begin Where you Are, Crane Arts Ice Box Space, Philadelphia, PA Curators: Timothy Belknap, Anna Neighbors, and Ryan McCarthy
It Narratates, the Movement of Objects as Information, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT Curators: Brian Droitcour and Zanna Gilbert
Forcefield Project, Philadelphia, PA Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Gallery 135, Red Bank, NJ Curator: Gerda Liebmann
Animate, AIGA, Philadelphia, PA
Tactical Glitches/0p3nr3p0.net, II Viale Melina 480055 Portici (NA) Curators: Rosa Menkman (NL) and Nick Briz (USA)
Tiny White Cubes, Delaware Center For Contemporary Art, DE
2013 REPEAT, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Peter Erickson
20/92 Video Call, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Curators: Tim Belknap and Ryan McCarney
All Along the Watchtower, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia, PA
Phili Found NYC, Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Intersection: an exposition of Art-Science collaborations, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Keith Hartwig
Art in the Now, The Gallery at Memphis, Philadelphia, Pa Curators: Jenna and Amber Ganzelli
v.13 Inliquid Art Auction, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
v.12 Inliquid Art Auction, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Philly Photo Day, Philadelphia Photographic Center at the Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
15 Year Anniversary, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Same As It Ever Was, CSA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Silence is a Lie, SEZ, Berlin, Germany
Stick Core, Idrawallot, Berlin, Germany
2011 Open Call Video Submission, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
We Glow in the Dark, Sculylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Torkwase Dyson
Real Time, BrainStormers, Rutgers-MSD Library Galleries, New Brunsweick, NJ
We are no Strangers, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 110th Annual Student Show, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Battle of the Sexes, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
5 into 1; Philadelphia Sculptors’ 12th Annual Student Exhibition, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia , PA Jurors: Emma Irvin and Anna Romaniuk
Skate or Die V, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Re-use and Resist, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 78th Annual Cumberland Valley Artist Exhibition, Washington County Museum of Fine Art, Hagerstown, MD
Cities of the Red Night, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
PaperGirl-NY, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY; The Armory, New York, NY; The Marketplace Gallery, Albany, NY
Speculative Ecology, WVWOFFKA, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Masha Badinter
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Typography: Language and Landscape, Gallery Arcane, San Francisco, CA
Battle of the Bowls, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Vox V, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Print Zero Exchange #6, Print Zero Studios, Seattle, WA; University Of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts, Main Stage Buffalo, NY
Fresh from the Streets, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
Prospects, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Offerings, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Sk8 or Die IV, Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Stick Me Hard II, Musma Gallery, Brussels, Belguim
Art on Record, APW Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2008 Outdated: Polaroid Art Show, Country Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 Third Coast National, K-Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX Juror: Josh MacPhee
Stick Me Hard, Musma Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Vinyl Killers VI, Goodfoot, Portland, OR
Expo StreetArt, Punta Arenas, Chile
Cut Out EM, Sommercasino, Basel, Switzerland
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Millenáris Street Games, Millenáris Park, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Here & Now, Copy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Cash and Carry, The Life, Portland, OR
I Want That, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
DIY Board Show, Drive Agency, St. Louis, MI
Skate or Die III, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Voyeur, The Core Gallery, Portland, OR
Kingdoms of Magical Extinction, Space1026, Philadelphia, PA
2006 International Flipbook Festival, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, England; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY Traveling Exhibition
Alien & Sedition, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Print Zero Exchange #4, University of Miami, Miami, FL; Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle, WA; Basil Howard Gallery, Portland, OR; Old Inlet Printmakers Co-op, Homer, Alaska Traveling Exhibition
Signals from/about Central Europe II, Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Manifestation, Goodfoot, Portland, OR Curator: Black Market Culture
Paper Politics Brooklyn, 5x5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2006, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Picking Up the Pieces II, San Juan, Puerto Rico Curator: Overspray Magazine
5th Annual Mini Print Exhibition, Lessedra Gallery, Sophia, Bulgaria
143rd Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Oil Painting, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Human pixel Project, Three columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Curator: Peter Smut
Flights of Fancy, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Cavin Jones
2” and Under, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Barbara Zuckerman
Board Show II, Salt Lake City, UT
Not Just a Box of Chocolates, Spiral Q Puppet Theater, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Staff Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pearlman Annex, Philadelphia, PA
Birds, Birds, Birds, Minnow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Addict, The Fix Gallery, Portland, OR
Vinyl Killers III, Zeitgeist, Portland, OR
Picking up the Pieces, Orchard St Gallery, New York, NY
Trash to Treasure, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
Paper Politics (West), Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
Spectrum Palette, Lambert Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Metal Pig, Gomi Gallery, Austin, TX
2004 Annual Juried Exhibition of Small oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
Poster Show, Objex Art space, Miami, FL
For The People, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stick Em Up II, Revolver, Melbourne, Australia
Interventionists, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA Curator: Josh, God Bless Graffiti Coalition
Bright Lights, Aftermath Gallery, Seattle, WA
International Mail Art Show, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Philadelphia Flip Book Show, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Vinyl Killers, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR Curator: Klutch
Burberry Furs and Elderberry Wine, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
Ten-Year Anniversary, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
From The Ground Up, New Bedford Art Museum, MA Curators: John Cox and Hannah Haines
Crypto-Sociological Flow Chart, Zeitgeist Portland, OR Curator: Paul Fujita
Cut-and-Paste Skateboarding Film & Art Festival, Iowa City, IA
The Best Coast, Portland, OR Curated by Jeff Jahn
2 Gyrlz Perpetuating Response IV, B-Annex, Portland, OR
100x100, Sound Vision, Portland, OR
Yellow Jackets, Windows Alive, SW 12th, Portland, OR
Synthesis Sculpture Show, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2002 Flip Book Show, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Ghost Walking Through the Binary, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Emergence, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
Electronic Parasite Séance, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR
Honors Show, Gallery 299, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Synthesis Painting Show, Gallery 299, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2001 Comfort Zone, Zeitgeist Gallery, Portland, OR
Benzedrine Den, Martial Arts, Portland, OR
Honors Show, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Over Exposure, Martial Arts, Portland, OR
1999 Deception Show, Martial Arts, Portland, OR
1998 Young Atlanta Artists, Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
One Night Only, Grace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Pythons and Appendages, Chances Gallery, Atlanta, GA
First Show, Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Selected Curated Exhibitions
2017 Tiny Lights; Storage Space, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2016 :////__/:: The Wrong, Philadelphia Embassy, The University of the Arts Sculpture Annex, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Modular Play Thoughts, Trash Day Celebration, Null and Void, The University of the Arts Hamilton Hall Public Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Universe Builders, Broad St Obelisk, The University of the Arts Hamilton Hall Public Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Molly Soda: I have Allot of Feelings, Crux Space, Philadelphia, PA
The Place of Dead Roads, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Tiny White Cubes, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE Co-curation
2013 Archangel Engage, Gallery 8, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
CITYWIDE, Philadelphia, PA Co-curation, collective exhibition in multiple locations
2012 Flash Flood, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA Co-curation
2011 The Western Lands, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
The Delta of Venus, Gallery 8, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Cities of the Red Night, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Bone Tails, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Ghost Walking Through the Binary, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Electronic Parasite Séance, Zeitgeist, Portland, OR
