Tommy Kha

Reunification (I), Millington, TN/Brooklyn, NY

Archival pigment print

About the artist

Tommy Kha

Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) is a photographer currently working between Brooklyn, New York and Memphis. He received an MFA in Photography from Yale University. Kha is a recipient of the Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, and was recently named an NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. His first major monograph Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter (Aperture) was released in 2023. His work has been published in ArtForum, The New York Times, British Journal of Photography, AnOther, Cultured, The New Yorker, FOAM, Creative Review, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, Slate, the Huffington Post, BUTT Magazine, Buzzfeed, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and was the cover of Vice Magazine’s 2017 Photography Issue. He appeared in Laurie Simmons' narrative feature, My Art.

Recent exhibitions include "Ghost Bites," curated by Dawn Chan, Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, "Eye is Another," Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN, "Curiosa" at Paris Photo, presented by Vasli Souza Gallery, Paris, "Má," Higher Pictures Generation, Brooklyn, NY, "With or Without You: America!" Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA, "Mother, Mason Exhibitions", Arlington, VA, "Relentless Melt," Launch F18, New York, "I Am Not This Body," Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles, "Mirror, Mirror," Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York," Steeped In Spilt Milk," 24EBroadway, NY, "At Home, I’m a Tourist," Photo Fringe Festival, Brighton, UK, and "Now You See Me," Foto Relevance, Houston, Texas.

Kha has collaborated with the Billboard Creative in Los Angeles, and exhibited at LMAK Gallery, PS122 Gallery, and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, as well as Blue Sky (Portland), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Los Angeles), Teen Party, and Aperture (New York), Yongkang Lu Art (Shanghai), Hyères Festival (France), and Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Germany).