10th Floor Studio is a conceptual art studio operated by Jerome Tavé and Kyle Lawson.
We focus on creating works that envision futures we want to see and build together.
ORIGINS
Jerome and Kyle met in 2008 while attending Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jerome Tavé (he/him) is an artist with a background in design and has worked as an interaction designer for a variety of companies and design groups, in addition to teaching in the Web & New Media program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Over the last 6 years, Jerome has incorporated fungi as a central part of his work. By experimenting with materials, and presenting them in new ways, Jerome hopes to explore narratives for new futures, while creating awareness and mindfulness around ecology.
Kyle Lawson (he/they) is an artist and designer exploring intersections of regenerative agriculture, ecosystem restoration, and conceptual art. Kyle is also the co-creator and Technical and Creative Director of Soil Centric, a not-for-profit connecting people to land based climate action. Kyle is a certified sheep shearer and lover of natural fiber.
We focus on creating works that envision futures we want to see and build together.
ORIGINS
Jerome and Kyle met in 2008 while attending Savannah College of Art and Design.
Jerome Tavé (he/him) is an artist with a background in design and has worked as an interaction designer for a variety of companies and design groups, in addition to teaching in the Web & New Media program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Over the last 6 years, Jerome has incorporated fungi as a central part of his work. By experimenting with materials, and presenting them in new ways, Jerome hopes to explore narratives for new futures, while creating awareness and mindfulness around ecology.
Kyle Lawson (he/they) is an artist and designer exploring intersections of regenerative agriculture, ecosystem restoration, and conceptual art. Kyle is also the co-creator and Technical and Creative Director of Soil Centric, a not-for-profit connecting people to land based climate action. Kyle is a certified sheep shearer and lover of natural fiber.
CONTACT / INQUIRIES /Collaborations
We are open to discussing project or collaboration opportunities.hello@10thfloor.studio
Exhibitions, EVENTS, Awards, Etc.
2024
Feb 1 - Feb 29 / Socle du monde, Group show at Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco
May 3 - May 4 / Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival, Installation, Santa Cruz, California
Jun 7 / SF Design Week Talk, Creative Mornings, San Francisco
Jun 25 / Dezeen feature: Ten independent design studios to watch in San Francisco
Sep 26 - Sep 29 / Rad Myco: In/Visible Signals, Group show, Mulino, Oregon
Sep 28 - Oct 11 / Works In Progress II, Group show, San Francisco
Oct 14 / Fungi, Form, and Future: How 10th Floor Studio Weaves Art and Ecology, Normal Phenomena of Life, Feature
2023
Jan 6 / Entropic Breath, Frequency Film Festival, San Francisco
Feb 24 - Mar 25 / MUTUALISM - Solo show @ D__O__G__
Mar 27 - May 5 / NADA Curated by Catherine Taft, After the End
Mar 28 / Material Futures Spotlight by Space 10
Jun 15 - Jun 25 / Finalist, SF MOMA Scrappy Chair challenge
Jun 10 / SF Design Week: Biofabrication Workshop
Sep 6 / Hyphal Fidelity selected as winning project / Design contest hosted by grow.bio & Ecovative
Nov 1 / Server of Flesh, virtual group exhibition, Wrong Biennale
Nov 18 / Boombox published in The Other Almanac
2022
Internet(s) of Everything: Earth Day Special
'Designing for Regenerative (Inter)thinking', a conversation with Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 and Andres Colmenares to explore alternative world-views on socio-technical, media and living systems shaping life in Planet Earth.
Entropic Breath, solo show at The Archery, San Francisco
Selected works, After Dark: Wondrous Fungus @ the Exploratorium with Far West Fungi, San Francisco
2021
Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.), UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26) (exhibition in collaboration with Joan Greer, Lisa Moore, Sourayan Mookerjea, Mark Simpson, Jessie Beier, Tsēmā Igharas, Tegan Moore, Catlin Kelly-Kuzyk)
Quiet up to the Forest
Selected for the Bicycle Film Festival
2020
RE-earthing Lost Data, Slash Art Gallery /room/: virtual exhibition
Boundaries of Flow, featured at San Francisco Design Week
—OF EARTH, Heath Newsstand
2019
Mycelium Room Divider, selected as winning project
Design contest organized by grow.bio & Ecovative
Mycelium Construction Unit, featured in Hope & Urgency @ Smoking Nun Gallery, San Francisco
COMMUNITY
Integral contributors to the studio also include:
ENTROPIC SONICS
AKSAW
Chiara Martini
Grishma Rao
Pocket Pictures
We are part of a community of artists with whom we share a studio space at the American Industrial Center in the Dogpatch district of San Francisco.
We’re also grateful to be supported by our global creative community with hotspots in Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.
We’re also grateful to be supported by our global creative community with hotspots in Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.
Let’s do something together :) hello@10thfloor.studio
