Nicholas Tilma Studio
- Michigan
- Furniture
Nicholas Tilma is a designer and artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Through experimental and traditional fabrication techniques and by mixing material languages he creates otherworldly furniture, lighting, and objects that combine references to artificial nature and science fiction to address the following questions: How will...Read More
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Artist accepts commissions.
STATEMENT
Nicholas Tilma is a designer and artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Through experimental and traditional fabrication techniques and by mixing material languages he creates otherworldly furniture, lighting, and objects that combine references to artificial nature and science fiction to address the following questions: How will humans of the future memorialize the natural world when our references are themselves the fake versions of the real thing? How can we acknowledge our collective fear of a dystopian future, while romanticizing its aesthetic?
BIO
Nicholas Tilma received a BFA in Art & Design from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2015. He worked as a product designer at furniture company, Floyd, for six years while operating his personal studio practice simultaneously. He has exhibited work in New York City, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, MI. He is currently attending Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI to pursue his MFA in 3D Design.
EDUCATION
MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2023
BFA in Art & Design from Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, 2015
TAGS
Furniture, lighting