Tyson Ayers is a Bay Area Interarts composer, instrument builder, and multimedia installation and performance artist. tyson’s innovative fusion of the visual arts, music, film, and spoken word seek to unite these diverse forms into a single vision and experience. Within the field he specializes in interactive, experiential art and sound installations that everyday people can enthusiastically participate with.

He is an experienced director and organizer, making major contributions to the community, both locally and throughout the West Coast. tyson is a director of the Living Pulse Project, the Centennial Celebration of the Elationists, the Foundation for the Preservation of Fantastic Possibilities, Interarts Ensemble, and a main organizer of the MAPP: Mission Arts and Performance Project, Million Fishes Arts Collective, and the social architecture project Collective Autonomy Network. He has shown with the de Young Museum, SomArts, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and has been an ensemble member with the Chrysalis Ensemble and Tango La Melodia.

In the past couple years, tyson has received recognition through the Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grant, and the SFAC Individual Artist Commission. tyson graduated cum laude from Whitman College in an Independently Designed Major combining music composition, painting, and writing. His thesis was a four-movement symphony with live music, films of paintings, and spoken word in each movement.

More information can be found at myspace.com/tysonarts.

Visual Music
Million Fishes Galleries,
SF, CA
Visual Artist January 15