Hi, I’m Tayla Myree

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Myree holds a Master’s degree in Comparative History from Central European University, where their research focused on Holocaust remembrance, Romani activism, and transnational memory politics. Their academic background is complemented by advanced training in Critical Romani Studies and Visual Theory and Practice, informing an interdisciplinary approach that bridges historical research, artistic production, and public engagement.

They have a successful ongoing project at the Belvedere Museum entitled Turning the Page: Representations of Blackness, which examines the historical representation of Black people in European art history from the medieval period to the present. Their writing and research have appeared in institutional and public contexts, addressing themes such as colonial legacies, museum representation, and decolonial approaches to memory and visual culture.

Tayla Myree (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, historian, cultural worker, and DJ based in Vienna, Austria. Their practice engages the politics of memory, representation, and identity, with a particular focus on Blackness and other marginalized histories.

Working across film, photography, prose, sound, and research-based methods, Myree explores how histories of violence, erasure, and resistance are remembered, visualized, and contested in public and institutional spaces.

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Alongside their visual and research-based practice, Myree also works with sound as a DJ, incorporating alternative R&B, house, hip hop, and related genres. This sonic practice functions as both a cultural and political space, extending their broader interest in Black expressive traditions, collective memory, and embodied forms of knowledge.

Myree is currently part of the Video and Video Installation Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where they continue to develop work that moves between research, artistic experimentation, and critical pedagogy.

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Tayla Myree and a group of women looking at artwork in an art gallery, viewed through a mirror.
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