TOMMY KHA
Tuesday | October 4 | 2pm
Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA
Tommy Kha (b. 1988, Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is the recipient of the Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo Fund, a Jerome Hill Fellowship and the Hyères Photography Grand Prix finalist, and a former artist-in-residence Light Work, the Camera Club of New York and a Celebrate the Studio resident at International Studios and Curatorial Program. He was named one of 47 artists in the inaugural Silver List in 2021.
His work has been published in NYT, The New Yorker, Foam, Creative Review, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Hyperallergic, BUTT Magazine, Buzzfeed, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and was the cover of Vice Magazine’s 2017 Photography Issue. He has collaborated with the Billboard Creative in Los Angeles, and exhibited at Nathalie Karg Gallery (NYC), Launch F18 (NYC), LMAKgallery (NYC), PS122 Gallery (NYC), Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), Teen Party (NYC), Brooks Museum (Memphis), Blue Sky (Portland), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), Yongkang Lu Art (Shanghai), Hyères Festival (France), and Unseen Festival (Amsterdam).
His first solo show occurred at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, which was followed by his New York solo debut at the Camera Club of New York in May 2019. He appeared in Laurie Simmons’ narrative feature, My Art. He currently teaches photography at the New School and at Yale University. He joined Higher Pictures Generation in 2022. His first major publication, Half Full Quarter, will be published by Aperture in February 2023.
He lives and works between New York City and Memphis.
