Tyson Campbell (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Pākehā) is a curator and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in grassroots and institutional contemporary art settings in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand.

Tyson’s current work focuses on Indigenous strategies toward shifting institutional structures and how culturally grounded and communitarian ways of knowing – conversational, celebratory, and respectful kanohi-kitea (face-to-face relations) – can initiate change within such settings. Tyson is interested in cultural mechanisms that move us away from the polarised dichotomy of indigeneity and institutional critique and from representation as a determining ideology in contemporary art discourse.

Tyson is currently the Co-chair of Artspace Aoteaora, a curator at Scape Public Art and a PhD Candidate at Wominjeka Djeembana, Monash University in Australia.

Please get in touch with Tyson Campbell at tysoncampbell@gmail.com