From 2015-2017 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Departments of Modern and American Prints and Drawings and British and American Paintings at the National Gallery of Art. There he curated “Matthias Mansen: Configurations, Parallel Practices: Artists and the Moving Image” and “New Waves: Transatlantic Bonds between Film and Art in the 1960s.” Tyson’s writing has appeared in Print Quarterly, Word & Image, and the International Review of African American Art, as well as in other journals, catalogues and online platforms.