Ty Lackey

Tyler Andrew Lackey, a Tennessee-born social practice artist, passionately celebrates and advocates for Blackness through his creative expression. As a musician, Tyler crafts unique soundscapes using saxophone, piano, flute, percussion, vocals, and guitar, employing looping and DJ mixing techniques. He transforms performance and interaction into a collaborative, exploratory space, challenging conventional views of entertainers.

In visual arts, Tyler explores mixed media, photography, and installations to delve into themes of Blackness, racism, Afrofuturism, urbanism, and globalism. His work invites viewers to see themselves within the works, engaging with intention, contexts and experience. Central to his practice is a commitment to challenging audiences to examine their relationship with whiteness and its constraints on Blackness.