About
Tristan Hughes-Freeland (b. 1999) lives and works in New York City.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2021.
His practice examines systems that attempt to secure meaning through authorship, ownership, and preservation, investigating how these structures inevitably produce transformation rather than stability. Through processes of delegation, appropriation, and intervention, he stages contracted situations in which origin, value, and identity cannot be cleanly maintained. These works recontextualize found and fabricated materials, as well as the actions of performers and participants, sustaining unstable states of exchange while examining how systems of mediation, circulation, and preservation shape consumption in the age of information.
He is also the presiding Cardinal of The Church of the Little Green Man. An artist-run collective which blends performance art, satire, and spiritual parody into transgressive gestures.
Tristan’s work has exhibited internationally and in artist-run spaces, at El Museo de la Ciudad de México, Gallery Lombardi, Shooting Gallery, Stolen Space Gallery, Fuse Gallery, and The Cooper Union.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Art from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2021.
His practice examines systems that attempt to secure meaning through authorship, ownership, and preservation, investigating how these structures inevitably produce transformation rather than stability. Through processes of delegation, appropriation, and intervention, he stages contracted situations in which origin, value, and identity cannot be cleanly maintained. These works recontextualize found and fabricated materials, as well as the actions of performers and participants, sustaining unstable states of exchange while examining how systems of mediation, circulation, and preservation shape consumption in the age of information.
He is also the presiding Cardinal of The Church of the Little Green Man. An artist-run collective which blends performance art, satire, and spiritual parody into transgressive gestures.
Tristan’s work has exhibited internationally and in artist-run spaces, at El Museo de la Ciudad de México, Gallery Lombardi, Shooting Gallery, Stolen Space Gallery, Fuse Gallery, and The Cooper Union.