BFA Photo Director, Ka-Man Tse, was recently selected for an ‘Anonymous Was A Woman Award’.
Ka-Man Tse (b. Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1981) is a photographer and video artist living in Brooklyn. Her work is informed by questions of longing and belonging. Her images are made within the intersection of Asian and Asian American (AAPI) and LGBTQ+ communities and are made through a queer lens. Ka-Man Tse has exhibited work at Para Site, Videotage, Lumenvisum, and Eaton Workshop, in Hong Kong. She has mounted solo shows at Aperture in New York, the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, and at the New York Public Library. Recent exhibitions and screenings include LOVE+: Awakening, at Hong Kong Arts Centre, in Hong Kong, Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings at the Brooklyn Museum, Chosen at Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, and Tate Lates at the Tate Museum. She is the recipient of the Aaron Siskind Fellowship, the Robert Giard Fellowship, and the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Her monograph, narrow distances, was published by Candor Arts. Her work is in public and private collections including the Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists’ Book Library in Hong Kong, and the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from Yale.