MJ Tyson

New Jersey, USA

Awards & Honors

2023 • Finalist, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award, Mid Atlantic Arts, Baltimore, MD
2020 • Winner, Young Artist Award, Art Jewelry Forum, San Antonio, TX
2020 • Participant, One For the Future, NYCJW, New York, NY
2017 • Finalist, Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

Residencies

2023 • Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2018 • The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2018 • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 • The Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI

Collections

Nationalmuseum Sweden
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)

Solo Exhibitions

2020 • Inheritance, Sienna Patti Gallery, Lenox, MA
2019 • Trace, Casa Colombo Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ
2018 • The Last Objects, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY
2009 • Silver and Steel, Gallery HL, Seoul, South Korea
2007 • Changing Direction, Woolen Mill Gallery, Reedsburg, WI

Recent Group Exhibitions

2024 • Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2024 • Objects: USA 2024, R & Company, New York, NY
2024 • Missed Connections, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2024 • Missed Connections, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
2023 • Beauty and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary American Crafts, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 • The Embankment on My Mind, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
2022 • This Present Moment: Crafting A Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2022 • Schmuck, International Trade Fair (IHM), Munich, Germany
2022 • Transforming the Prototype, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD
2021 • Schmuck, International Trade Fair (IHM), Munich, Germany (cancelled)
2021 • Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2021 • Hearts + Flowers, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY
2020 • AMEND, Secret Identity Projects, amendexhibition.com
2020 • From the Ground Up: Peters Valley School of Craft, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2020 • 45 Stories in Jewelry — 1947 to Now, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2020 • Streams, Intro by Marzee, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 • OBJECTS: REDUX — 50 Years of Craft Evolution, Form & Concept, Santa Fe, NM
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Education

2017 • MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2008 • BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007 • University of Applied Arts, Pforzheim, Germany

Teaching Experience

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
RISD Continuing Education, Providence, RI
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
The Bloomfield School, Brooklyn, NY
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY