Artists
Tryst Red
Career Level: Emerging
Medium: Collage, Fibers, Photography, Sculpture, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Mixed Media
Open for Commissions: Yes
Tryst Red is an installation, lens-based artist, and educator. Her work relies on abstracted photographic self-portraits and immersive projection installations, incorporating mirrors, motion, and fabric, to reflect and conceal, fragmenting space and body.
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About
Tryst holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2023). She serves on the executive board of NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival and teaches as an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University and Oakland University. Her installations, Reflection Rooms, and other photographic works have been exhibited at numerous galleries, most recently at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Detroit Artist Market, Hatch Art, and the Scarab Club.
Artist Statement
Through a combination of photography, video projection, audio, and sculptural processes, I question the reliability of recollection, how we perceive, distort, or romanticize the past in contrast to the reality we inhabit. Remembering allows us to mentally time-travel, making us vulnerable to forgetting in favor of fabrication and fiction. Relying on abstracted photographic self-portraits and immersive projection installations, my recent work blurs the line between embodied environments and imagined scenarios.
The use of mirrors, motion, and fabric both reflects and conceals. This fragmentation of a space and body explores episodic memory's ability to shape our identity and distort our perception. These works are not just representations of self, but suggestions of how we carry intimate experiences into public spaces, moments believed to be solitary, yet are communally resonant. Drawing from personal events, those marked by yearning, connection, disconnection, and quiet presence, I invite the viewer into a space of recognition and encourage them to sit with feelings of familiarity.
Gallery
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition
Daydreams / Delusions
At Office Space Gallery
2868 E Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202
June 13th - July 12th
Opening July 13th
6pm - 9pm
Past Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Skin & Scales, Tom Gibbs Studio, Ferndale, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Process, Gutman Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2026 SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, SCAD, Atlanta, GA
2026 Community, Ideation Orange, Hazel Park, MI
2026 Built Again by Dusk, The jail Cell, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI
2025 SPE Members Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2025 Detroit Warehouse Art and Design Fair, Boyer Campbell, Detroit, MI
2025 Eastern Market After Dark, Eastern Market Shed 2, Detroit, MI
2025 96th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, MI
2025 Metro Detroit Body, Swords into Plowshares, Detroit, MI
2025 Alter Egos & Inner Echoes, The Voyeur Bordello, Detroit, MI
2025 Finding Our Way Home, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2025 Chroma, Composing Detroit, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2025 Lumieir, Composing Detroit, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2025 Featured Artist, MARCH MADNESS, Alluvion Arts @ 414, Traverse City, MI
2025 Shaping Perception: CCS Faculty Exhibition, Valade Family Gallery, Detroit, MI
2025 Art in the Office Exhibition, Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI
2024 Portals: Windows, Mirrors, and Doors, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2024 Snap!, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2024 Monochromatic Masquerade, Ideation Orange, Hazel Park, MI
2024 DAM Gala 8, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2024 Art Fair, Critical Stuff Collective, Detroit Month of Design, Detroit, MI
2024 Eastern Market After Dark, Detroit Month of Design, Detroit, MI
2024 NEST, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2024 The Art of Abstraction, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
2024 Presence, NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival, Mexicantown CDC, Detroit, MI
2024 Photo Festival, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2024 18th Annual Master Pieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2024 Aphrodisiac, The Voyeur Bordello, Detroit, MI
2024 Hot Dam!, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2024 53rd Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2023 94th MCAE, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2023 Prelude, NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival, The Congregation, Detroit, MI
2023 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 DAM/CAA Scholarship Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2022 Cranbrook Chair Show, 660 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
2022 93rd MCAE, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2022 Greenhouse Show, Goldner Walsh Garden and Home, Pontiac, MI
2021 BODY, AS DEFINED, Collective Behaviors, Detroit, MI
Awards & Residencies:
2026 2nd Place, Photography Exhibition, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2025 Art in the Office, Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI
2023 Friends of Art Award, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI