Allie Tsubota
Assistant Professor of Photography
Email
tsubotaa@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Allie Tsubota is an artist exploring intersections of race, visuality, and the formation of historical memory. Her work joins photography, video, photographic and cinematic archives, and text to examine the role of visual spectatorship across racialized space and collapsed historical time. Tsubota has received recognitions from Aperture and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others, and has been an artist-in-residence with Headlands Center for the Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Visual Studies Workshop, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and ARCUS Project (Japan). Her works have been exhibited across the United States and in Japan.
Degrees Held
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, New York University
BA, New York University
Research Interests
race, visuality, history, literature and language, archival dis/assemblage, witnessing, catastrophe
Awards And Honors
2024 JGS Fellowship for Photography, New York Foundation for the Arts
2023 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2022 Shortlist, Aperture Portfolio Prize
2022 Shortlist, Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Award
2022 SPUR Fund Research Award, Rhode Island School of Design
2022 Graduate Commons Award, Rhode Island School of Design
2021 Photo Fund Award, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs
2021 CPA Artist Award, Center for Photographic Art
2021 Henry Wolf Award for Photographic Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design