Tyler grew up in Lincoln, California. Began drawing at a young age. Studied art history, ceramics, drawing, and photography at Sierra College, UC Davis and then onto Alfred University where he earned a Master’s Degree in Ceramic Art in 2011. After graduating, Tyler moved from Alfred, New York to Carbondale, Colorado where he was a guest artist in residence at the Carbondale Clay Center for one year. In 2012, he moved to Oakland, California and began a job washing and detailing sailboats and yachts in the San Francisco Bay Area for two years until a knee surgery had him relocate back to Placer County, where he currently resides, in Roseville, Ca, creating art, drawing, painting and photographing mixed media works. Tyler keeps a blog of all his work in progress at: www.tylermcginnart.blogspot.com.
