Thomas Tait is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Having initially studied Comparative Literature, Tait began their practice in performance in 2015 in Brooklyn’s underground scene, using a theatrical setup of costumes, music, narrative texts, and performing objects. Tait’s practice has evolved over the years to include video, installation, handmade machines, sound, text, and live performance, and explores a broad range of influences from theater, literature, queer theory, technology, the uncanny, and low-tech or obsolete culture – to nurture allegorical narratives based on relationships and exchanges between worlds expected to be ontologically separate.
Tait received an MFA from Hunter College, and in 2024 received a fellowship to attend the SOMA program in Mexico City. In 2025 they were an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn NY, and currently they work and teach in the New Genres Art Department at Hunter College.
email: tftaitiii@gmail.com