Travis Boyer

Travis Boyer (born 1979) is an American multidisciplinary artist whose collaborative works with Donnie Cervantes merge photography, textile art, and hand‑crafted dye processes into dreamlike allegories. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Boyer earned his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2007, where he honed a practice that bridges mechanical and artisanal techniques.

Boyer begins each piece with a figurative photograph—often of a solitary figure in a metaphysical landscape—printed onto silk via a reverse cyanotype process. He then applies hand‑dyed embroidery in silk and cashmere, layering color and texture directly onto the cyanotype image. The resulting compositions possess a painterly, otherworldly quality: garments and surroundings seem to glow from within, evoking themes of innocence, loss, and transformation.

His work has been exhibited widely, including solo and group shows at Participant Inc., John Connelly Presents, and Eva’s Arche in New York; Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn; SOMA Arts in San Francisco; Galleria Glance in Torino; Piso 51 in Mexico City; Kunstverein and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. A recipient of the Fire Island Artist Residency, Boyer has also lectured and performed at Yale’s MFA program, RISD, CCA Oakland, and MICA. Through his seamless fusion of photography and textile, he continues to explore the poetic possibilities that arise where image and material intertwine.