Alex Tieghi-Walker
New York City–based Alex Tieghi-Walker is a curator, gallerist, and cultural programmer, and the founder of TIWA Select, the Tribeca gallery he established in 2020. Known for a bold, materials-driven programme, his work challenges traditional gallery models and bridges contemporary art, design, and craft.
Before founding TIWA Select, Alex spent over a decade working in design journalism and creative direction. Raised between Italy and Wales, he contributes to publications including Apartamento, Dazed, Fantastic Man, and Wallpaper*, and has consulted for institutions and brands such as Barber Osgerby, Conran & Partners, Mulberry, The Judd Foundation, and Tate.
Alex has curated exhibitions internationally, including The North American Pavilion (2023), a collaboration with Frieze’s No.9 Cork Street that brought together North American galleries in a salon-style format. In 2025, he curated programming for the Brompton Design District at the London Design Festival, inviting designers to respond to the theme “A Softer World.”
His practice is shaped by a long-standing interest in folk craft, the handmade, and material experimentation, with storytelling at its core.
Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects
2025
London Design Festival
Brompton Design District , London, UK
Rich Aybar: Rubberworks
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
James Cherry and Daniel Long: Counterpoint, Duet
WSA , New York City, USA
Faye Toogood: Lucid Dream
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Rites of Spring (Aaron Angell and Cadis)
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
2024
James Cherry: From Pollen
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Vince Skelly: Play Sculptures
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Coetir: Of the Woods
Group show including works by Dana Arbib, James Cherry, Leo Kaspar, Vince Skelly, Christabel MacGreevy, and Jim McDowell
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Lindsey Adelman: A Realm of Light
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Leo Kaspar & Andrew Pierce Scott: Robusted
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
2023
Andrew Tarlow: 5 Urns, 7 Faces. Pegasus 2
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Earth Landing Project: Constellation Club
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
Dana Arbib: Vetro Orto
TIWA Gallery, New York City, USA
The North American Pavilion
Frieze , No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK
2022
Vince Skelly: After the Storm
FARAGO × TIWA, Los Angeles, USA
Dana Arbib: Vetro Alga
Galerie Michael Bargo, New York City, USA
FARAGO × TIWA Select: Everyday Rituals
FARAGO × TIWA, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Big Plates
Group show including works by Dana Arbib, Simone Bodmer-Turner, Minjae Kim, Deborah Needleman, Vince Skelly, Nadia Yaron
Stone Ridge, New York, USA
The Boro Room
Sized, Los Angeles, USA
2020
At the Noyes House
Object and Thing, Connecticut, USA