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, the Hyères Photography Grand Prix finalist, and is a former resident at Light Work, the Camera Club of New York, and the International Studios and Curatorial Program. He was named one of 47 artists in the inaugural Silver List. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Foam, Creative Review, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Hyperallergic, Butt Magazine, Buzzfeed, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and Vice. 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). He held his first solo show 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 will be published by Aperture in February 2023. He lives and works between New York City and Memphis.
