Tyler Haney is originally from Renton Washington. He was trained in fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Where he earned a BFA in 2004.  Early, after college, he had the opportunity to work for the renowned Hyper-realist painter Marilyn Minter. He worked as an assistant painter for Minter, helping her with her one woman show at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California.

Using the disciplines of drawing and painting, Haney has begun to lay down a foundation of visually capturing the psychological effects of what one experiences through one's senses. Specific paintings are displayed individually, allowing the viewer the opportunity to experience the intimacy of one painting in relation to the entire body of work. Though, the paintings confidently stand on their own, when shown together they become a single work of art.

Haney's work recalls the theory of Gestalt's Psychological Principles of Perceptual Organization, which state that in visual space, individual objects are often perceived as parts of larger perceptual units of groupings. The paintings wrestle with the idea that the senses are more interested in the way one visually perceives sensual moments. Haney is interested in evoking an atmospheric response to his work within the painted space. Although the paintings are representing the human form, the image is often magnetized giving the painting ambiguity and mystery.