Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is the recipient of the CPW Vision Award, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow, and a former resident at Light Work, the Camera Club of New York, and the International Studios and Curatorial Program. He was one of 47 artists in the inaugural Silver List.

His work has been published in NY Times, New Yorker, Foam, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Harper’s Magazine, Pitchfork, ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Butt Magazine, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and Vice.

He’s been included in museum group shows at Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), the High Museum (Atlanta), Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), and mostly recently, participated in the inaugural Tennessee Triennial at the Brooks Museum (Memphis). He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures Generation (NYC), Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (NYC), and Blue Sky Gallery (Portland), and presented, at Paris Photo’s Curiosa curated by Holly Roussel and presented at Vasli Souza Gallery; and participated in the Hyères and Unseen Festivals. Other exhibitions include Billboard Creative (Los Angeles), Nathalie Karg Gallery (NYC), Launch F18 (NYC), Teen Party (NYC), and Yongkang Lu Art (Shanghai).

He appeared in Laurie Simmons’ narrative feature, My Art. He has taught at the New School and Rutgers, and a critic at Pratt Institute and Yale University, where he now teaches. He is a current Wu Mei student under Sifu Ken Lo.
He joined Higher Pictures Generation in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023.

He lives and works between New York City and Memphis.