Tyler Gathro is a photo-based artist working across photography and mixed media. He looks for physical traces of things we know, feel, or believe are there but cannot see. An altar becomes evidence of sacrifice. A photograph becomes evidence of memory. Braille becomes evidence of something simultaneously present and inaccessible. A person becomes evidence of faith. A father's image becomes evidence of something passed from one generation to another. Drawing on his religious upbringing, studies in theology, and experience as a father, Gathro asks, "how do we make visible the things we know, feel or believe are there, but cannot actually see?"

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In his ongoing series Evidence of Things Not Seen, Gathro layers raised braille over staged photographs and images from his family archive. The braille gives physical form to private reflections and to experiences of others. With support from the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Assemblage Art Fund, Gathro is working to explore how touch can shape both the making and the experience of a photograph.

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Gathro holds degrees from The Cooper Union School of Art and Yale Divinity School. His background in documentary photography continues to inform how he works with personal stories. He has exhibited nationally and received a 2018 Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant. He teaches photography at Hillcrest High School and mentors artists through ArtLens Academy. He lives with his wife and three sons in the Salt Lake City area.​