Tyler Burey

Tyler Burey (b. 1992, Timmins, ON) is a multidisciplinary queer Indigenous artist from Northern Ontario, currently living and working in Toronto. A graduate of OCAD University, his practice explores themes of queer identity, intimacy, and the queer body, alongside an evolving connection to his Indigenous heritage. Tyler uses his art to navigate the complexity of queer life and the layered experience of finding belonging within a newly discovered community. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and photography, he seeks to create meaningful representation — for himself, and for the broader queer Indigenous community he continues to grow into. Working with materials such as acrylic, beadwork, paint, and light. Tyler’s work merges vulnerability and resilience, often blurring the line between celebration and survival. His multidisciplinary approach invites viewers into spaces of reflection, transformation, and personal myth-making — where identity becomes both question and answer. Drawing on personal experience the work is an exploration of the shifting intangible nature of identity and the search there of. Finding comfort in the multiplicity of identity as well as the ebb and flow of self actualization. Utilizing notions of the body in states of distortion and movement, the figure is explored through abstractions. Each work tasked with embodying a state of becoming, to capture and visualize the states both pre and post self actualization.