Tanner K. Williams is a Los Angeles–based queer artist whose work addresses mental health, social reeducation, and the dismantling of narrow religious expectations around sex and gender. Through photography and sculpture, Williams stages contrived scenarios and digitally reconstructed images in dialogue with the history of painting and portraiture.

The visual language combines kitsch, satire, and references to Mormon and suburban aesthetics (’90s interiors, beige palettes, standardized decor) to turn once-oppressive codes into tools of critique. This deliberately excessive, familiar-yet-uncomfortable space allows viewers to engage with difficult religious and political questions.

Rather than expressing a simple post-religious resentment, Williams develops a nuanced visual rhetoric that humorously subverts objects, histories, and decorative codes from Mormonism in order to reconsider who defines the sacred.