Miguel Tió, a native of the Dominican Republic, began his painting studies with the artist Elias Delgado while also attending the "Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo.

His interest in Publicity and Graphic Design led him into continuing studies at the “Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo”.  He worked as in-house draftsman and sketch artist for “Teleantillas TV” and as an illustrator for the “Secretaria de Estado y Educacion, Bellas Artes y Culto” in his native Dominican Republic.

His eventual move to New York City in 1994, led him to:

Izquierdo Studio, where worked as a painter and silk screener for a variety of projects such as the feature films Spiderman 1 & 2, and The Woods: the Broadway shows Beauty and the Beast, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rent, Miss Saigon: the operas Four Saint in Three Acts, Madame Butterfly; commercials for Hershey’s Kit Kat, Old Navy; window displays: for Wathne, Polo/Ralph Lauren, Victoria‘s Secret, Nautica and special events such as Bette Midler’s fundraising galas Hoolaween I and II at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

He has also worked with Heidi Pettee Designs, Inc., New York

as head painter for displays and a mural for Richard Leeds International and Rosie Magazine’s feature story.

He also worked for the Warner Brothers flagship store in New York City as a head painter and craft specialist for a variety of in-store and window displays including Harry Potter, voted as one of the top ten Christmas windows in the year 2000 by the New York Post.

Since 2005 he works as an art teacher for Studio in a School and in 2006 he studied the ancient technique from the renaissance, "The Mische Technique" with the world-wide known artist and founder of the Society for Art of the Imagination, Brigid Marlin.

His works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in The Dominican Republic, The United States, England and Italy.  Some of the group shows in which he has participated are: “Crossroads: An Exhibition of Contemporary Dominican-American Art” at the Aaron Davis Hall, NYU; “Artexpo New York” at the Jacob Javitts Center; “Fragments of Illusions”, (five Dominican artists) at the Peter Madero Gallery, NY and

  “Arte Dominicano Contemporaneo” at the Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The most recent of his six solo shows was "Unseen Sides" at Gallerie Icosahedron in NYC, 2006.

He has been commissioned to paint various portraits, among them a portrait of Diane Von Fustenberg, which was used for her fashion show on 2002, and the portrait of Walt Whitman commissioned by the collector Ed Centeno.

Publications about his work include: "Calling All Angels: The Transcendent Vision of Miguel Tió", by Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio Magazine “Arte Iberoamericano Contemporáneo; Emoción y Concepto” by Maria Elena Troncoso and Ricardo Lescano Grosso, Cordoba,Argentina; “Walt Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass 150thAnniversary”, by Ed Centeno, The Archive Journal and "Celebrating Sescinquicentennial of Whitman`s "Leaves of Grass" by Frank Gagliardi/Ed Centeno, Elihu Burritt Library Newsletter, Central Connecticut State University; “Enciclopedia de las Artes Plásticas Dominicana“ by Candido Geron, Dominican Republic;  “Una personal vision del apocalipsis”, by Agustin Martin, “Hoy” Newspaper, Dominican Republic; “Apocalipsis o las posibilidades de Miguel Sanchez Tió”,  by Marianne de Tolentino, “Listin Diario” Newspaper, Dominican Republic; “Miguel Sanchez”, by Laura Gil, “El  Caribe” Newspaper, Dominican Republic.

Miguel Tió currently has a studio in Manhattan where he keeps producing new works.