In her art and design practice, Kohl Tyler contemplates notions of ephemerality, interconnectedness and employs speculative frameworks. Drawing inspiration from both physical and phenomenal elements, she processes ecological grief and posits future material and biological ecologies. She works primarily in ceramics and occasionally in watercolour painting and social practice.
Kohl is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist who has been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018. She was a finalist in the National Gallery of Victoria's (NGV) Rigg Design Prize in 2025. Kohl completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016 and was awarded the Artist Alliance Graduate Award in 2016. In 2017, Kohl won the Estuary Art and Ecology Award at Malcolm Smith Gallery in Auckland, NZ. In 2024, she won the Ominia Art Award's People's Choice Prize.
She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; To Return To, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2024) and Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC (2024). In 2022, she presented Offerings, a social art installation held at the UNESCO heritage-listed Carlton Gardens in Naarm, Australia, supported by the City of Melbourne Art Grants. Kohl's work is held in the collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC and in private collections throughout Australia, Aotearoa and the USA.
Solo Exhibitions
– Of Bodies into Novel Shapes, MARS Gallery, 2025
– To Return To, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, 2025
– sub- super-, Quality, Melbourne, VIC, 2024
– All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA, 2024
– Signals, PG Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2022
– Offerings, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, VIC, 2022
– Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ, 2020
– Umbra, NOVACANCY Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2020
– Purlieus, Skinroom Gallery, Hamilton, NZ, 2017
Group Exhibitions
– Radical Joy, Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery, 2026
– NGV 2026 Triennial, NGV International, Narrm/Melbourne, VIC
– Latitude, Three Days of Design, Copenhagen, DK, 2026
– All Heaven Broke Loose, Melbourne Design Week, VIC, 2026
– From MARS to Aotearoa, Aotearoa Art Fair, MARS Gallery, Tamaki/Auckland, NZ, 2026
– Melbourne Art Fair, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2026
– Rigg Design Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, 2025
– Klytie Pate Ceramic Award, MACE, Mansfield, VIC, 2025
– Being Sensitive, Studio Kennon, Melbourne, VIC, 2025
– Creative Energies, CBOne Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2025
– National Emerging Art Award, The Garden Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 2024
– Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2024
– Omnia Art Award, St Kevins College, Melbourne, VIC, 2024
– Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, 2024
– Botanical Spells, CBOne Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2024
– ALCHEMY, NotFair Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC, 2023
– Recent Acquisitions, Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC, 2022
– WRAP Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC, 2021
– Metamorph, NOVACANCY Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2020
– Friends and Family, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 2019
– Lethbridge 20000 Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, 2019
– collect.document.archive, Weasle Gallery, Hamilton, NZ, 2018
– Trace, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2018
– Ngā Tipu Taketake - Indigenous Flora. Touring Exhibition: Auckland Botanical Gardens, Wellington Botanical Gardens, & Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, NZ, 2018
– Estuary Art and Ecology Prize, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2017
– Art of Giving, Bayleys House, Auckland, NZ, 2017
– Paperhouse, Alberton Heritage Building, Auckland, NZ, 2017
– Paperwork, DEMO, Auckland, NZ, 2017
– Grad Show, Whittecliffe College of Fine Art, Auckland, NZ, 2016
– Natures [Un] Natural, This That Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2015
– Dealing with Misanthropy, Pearce Gallery, Auckland, NZ 2015 Borderline, Pearce Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2015
– Painting(s), Karangahape Road Mercury Theatre, Auckland, NZ, 2014
Awards
– Rigg Design Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC, finalist, 2025
– WINNER of the People’s Choice Award, Kyltie Pate Ceramic Award, MACE, Mansfield, VIC, 2025
– National Emerging Art Award, The Garden Gallery, Sydney, NSW, finalist, 2024
– Omnia Art Award, Melbourne, VIC (People’s Choice Award), 2024
– Quick Response Arts Grant, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (Recipient), 2022
– Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC, finalist, 2021
– Lethbridge 2000 Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, finalist, 2019
– WINNER of the Estuary Art and Ecology Award, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland, NZ, 2017
– WINNER of the Artist Alliance Graduate Award, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ, 2016