About the artist

Awarded First Prize in the 2025 LBIF 40 Under 40 Exhibition, selected by Jennie Goldstein, Curator at the Whitney Museum.

Ty Le Roux is a multimedia artist whose work remixes reality, exploring surrealism and consciousness through the layered lenses of personal memory, cultural detritus, and subconscious symbolism. Ty crafts a living archive of frames from lost cult films never produced - haunted landscapes, archetypal godforms, and waking dreams stitched into static cinema.

Influenced by creators like David Lynch, Remedios Varo, and William Mortensen, Le Roux embraces the imperfect and the arcane, reaching across mediums to unearth the haunted, the humorous, and the holy. Ty believes that art’s raw edges, gaps in mastery, unexpected glitches, or unnameable texture all carry a humanity that sterile perfection can’t replicate. In an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, Ty finds lasting power in the unmistakable fingerprint of the artist: irregular, emotional, and mysterious.

Ty Le Roux utilizes photography, sculpture, video, and every possible medium at his disposal to create his visual worlds. They are digitally assembled, but spiritually excavated. Images are often captured in the quiet margins of life and then reworked obsessively, collaged and remixed until they take on the semblance of some new plane of existence. No two works follow the same route; some emerge from a single photograph, others from hundreds. Ty does not reveal his full process, only that it is part ritual, part forensic recovery, and part long, sleepless drift through the archives of the self.

Rather than overwhelm, Ty’s work invites, drawing viewers into dreamlike spaces that feel familiar yet eerily altered. A statue glimpsed six years ago might return in one of Le Roux’s pieces, now whispering a new story. Each work begins not with a plan, but with a feeling - a fleeting image, a concept, a myth in vapor form - and evolves through a process of layering, erasure, and intuitive assembly. The result is often stranger, more revealing, and more alive than what was first imagined.

For example, Toon Purgatory began as a simple idea:

“Long-forgotten cartoon characters, wandering a purgatory void, dreaming of life in the real world.”
What emerged was a meditation on nostalgia, disembodiment, and the myth of lost childhood.

Ultimately, Le Roux’s body of work is a meditation on transformation, memory, and the beauty of the unknown. Ty is grateful for the opportunity to share these inner worlds and hopes that, within them, viewers may stumble upon secret doorways into their own.