Awards

• Joint winner of The Silver List 2021 (United States)
• Winner of CR Photography Annual 2019 (UK)
• Winner of En Foco Photography Fellowship Award 2016 (United States)
• Winner of The Next Step Award 2021 (United States)

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'My work is about how much the landscape has been unkind to immigrants,' says Tommy Kha of his latest photo project, which captures the Asian diaspora in America with a surreal edge. -Tony Wilkes, AnOther magazine Kha's poignant photographs bring together his family's East Asian ancestry and everyday life in the American South, where found photographs, self-portraits and half self-portraits of his mother tell a story of displacement and shared identity. -Stefanie Li, Galerie magazine 'These are mostly from the book, but also thinking a lot about the Southern landscape, [Kha] says, referring to Half, Full, Quarter, his first monograph, published this February by the prestigious photo-centric publisher Aperture. -Chris McCoy, Memphis magazine The artist makes wry commentaries on the immigrant experience using scattered visual fragments, from the depths of Tennessee's Chinatown to the fishing communities of rural Vietnam. A new book and exhibition prove there's method to the melange. -Larissa Pham, British Journal of Photography Kha's layered portraits, still lifes, and landscapes exist alongside his mother's own photographs. The collaborative world between mother and son expands. -Harley Wong, Artforum Together, they form a picture not just of his family or how they made a home in the South but of how important humor, placemaking and ultimately photography are to Kha's understanding of this region. -Michael Adno, The New York Times 'Ghost Bites' maps the psycho-geography of a fractured self; of all the losses, phantoms, and questions that emerge from the diasporic lineage. -Jacinda Tran, The Amp

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Tommy Kha (born in Memphis, 1988) lives and works between Brooklyn and Memphis. He received a BFA from Memphis College of Art in 2011 and an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in 2013. In 2021, Kha received the Creator Labs Photo Fund and the Aperture–Baxter St Next Step Award. In 2022, he was named a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. Kha has also held residencies at Light Work, New York; Celebrate the Studio at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn; Silver Art Projects, Manhattan; and Crosstown Arts, Memphis. He joined Higher Pictures Generation, New York, in 2022.  Hua Hsu, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is an associate professor of English at Vassar College, and serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (2016) and Stay True: A Memoir (2022). An-My Lê is the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York. She has exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lê has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and MacArthur Foundation. Her books include the Aperture titles Small Wars (2005), Events Ashore (2014), and On Contested Terrain (2020), which was published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. An-My Lê is the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York. She has exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lê has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and MacArthur Foundation. Her books include the Aperture titles Small Wars (2005), Events Ashore (2014), and On Contested Terrain (2020), which was published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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