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Tyna Ontko is an artist and writer from the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state, an area which influences her interest in handicraft futurism and rural infrastructure. She is a 2025 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, holding an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media. Tyna’s work has been exhibited with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA, Kunsthalle Kohta in Helsinki, Finland, and Below Grand Gallery in New York, NY among others. Residencies attended include those with the Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). She has work included in the publications Curious 9 (forthcoming), Are.na Annual Vol. 7, and Provenance Research. Tyna was the recipient of a 2024/25 Cy Twombly Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and in 2022 was a finalist in the open medium category for the Neddy Artist Award through Cornish College of the Arts.