Tyler Stoll is a interdisciplinary artist whose research and theory-driven work critically examines contemporary normative and queer masculinities. Working across sculpture, performance, video, writing, and social practice, Stoll often appropriates or reinterprets familiar images and forms, using humor as a tool to invite audiences to imagine different ways of experiencing and embodying gender.

In his recent work, Stoll reanimates Danny Zuko, the iconic leather-clad heartbreaker from the musical film Grease, to test the durability of normative, nostalgic masculinities, while offering “flaccidity” as an alternate emancipatory narrative. This work is based around a manifesto Stoll wrote, titled the future is flaccid, which redefines flaccidity as a political orientation employed through an exploration of language, materiality, and embodiment to undermine patriarchal masculinity and the systems of domination it upholds. 

Stoll holds an MFA in Art from the University of Oregon and a BMus and BA in French Horn Performance and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College. He also completed the Core Fellowship at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. Formerly a ceramicist and jeweler, his work has been exhibited in venues ranging from The Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston, MA to Ditch Projects, an artist-run space in Springfield, OR. A participatory version of his flaccid protest group performance was included in the 2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial. Originally from Ohio, Stoll now lives in Portland, OR, where he works as an art preparator and educator.