James Marilyn is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist.

His debut project, The House That Haunts You, opens Halloween 2025 as a one-night-only experience in Woodstock, NY, staged inside his own home—a live/work studio that becomes both site and subject.

His practice sanctifies the discarded—materially, psychically, and culturally—through site-specific installation, sculpture, seasonal ritual, and performance.

Working with antiques, found objects, textiles, fragrance, and memory, Marilyn builds environments from what others leave behind and from his own psychic remnants.

The name “James Marilyn” reflects unrealized possibility: James is the name his mother once considered giving him but didn’t; Marilyn, the name she’d have chosen had he been born a girl. In reclaiming both, he creates a mythic self born of maternal dreaming, queer performance, and personal salvage.

Before James Marilyn emerged, he was—and remains—Josh Tierney, a creator of cultural narratives and experiences for brands and institutions ranging from Gucci to The White House.