Tyler Goldflower
Multidisciplinary Sculptural Photographic Artist

Tyler Goldflower (b. 1992, USA) is a multidisciplinary sculptural photographic artist born and raised in New York City and currently based between New York and Mexico City. Her relationship with photography began at the age of thirteen in the darkroom, where the medium first revealed itself as a way to communicate perception, sensation, and feeling beyond language.

Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goldflower has spent over two decades refining photography as both medium and method. Her practice functions as a laboratory of processes, experiments, and material investigations, existing between image and material. Working as a sculptural photographer, she embeds photographs into stone, clay, steel, textiles, living plants, and handmade bio based papers. In this process, the photograph is no longer a surface image but becomes a physical body shaped by time, environment, chemistry, and touch.

Her recent work is rooted in self portraiture, using the body not as representation but as a site of memory, vulnerability, mortality, and transformation. Deeply influenced by movement and dance, the body is understood as a living language that is expressive, archetypal, and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. Goldflower is interested in how images behave when placed within material systems and how chemical, biological, and elemental processes expand what an image can communicate. Materials are treated as collaborators rather than passive supports, actively shaping meaning and perception.

While her processes are varied and experimental, they are united by a central inquiry into the relationship between body and environment, inner and outer worlds, and individual and collective memory. Through weaving, embroidery, and textile based practices, images become dimensional, tactile, and narrative. Influenced by growing up in a family of jewelers, Goldflower also incorporates stones, metal, and gold in some works as both material and symbol, honoring lineage while transforming it through her own artistic language.

Increasingly, her work takes the form of photographic altars framed within oxidized steel candelabras. Light, often candlelight, shapes how the image is experienced, slowing perception and creating intimacy, presence, and reverence. Across all processes, Goldflower seeks to create work that endures not by resisting change, but by allowing images to age, react, and evolve over time.

Rooted between New York and Mexico and shaped by travels across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia, her work carries the imprint of each landscape as part of a living archive of texture and emotion. Moving fluidly between the erotic and the sacred, the ancient and the futuristic, the playful and the profound, Goldflower creates works that function as vessels of human experience, reflecting our search for place, belonging, and connection to the earth, to one another, and to ourselves.

For inquiries about artwork or collaborations please email:
Tyler@goldflower.world

Instagram: @tylergoldflower