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Ka-Man Tse has exhibited her work at Para Site, Videotage, Lumenvisum, and Eaton Workshop, all in Hong Kong.   In the U.S., 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 (Mulberry Street Branch).  Recent exhibitions and screenings include Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,  LOVE+: Awakening at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Hong Kong,  Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings at the Brooklyn Museum, Chosen at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, Tate Lates at the Tate Museum, and Known and Strange at the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London.     

She is the recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Award, the Aaron Siskind Fellowship, the Robert Giard Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and a Research Award from Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies.  Curatorial projects include Daybreak: New Affirmations in Queer Photography at the Leslie-Lohman Museum co-curated with Matt Jensen, and Unruly Visions, in partnership with the Hong Kong International Photography Festival and WMA, featuring work by emerging LGTBQ+ photographers in Hong Kong.   

Recent books include:  My Race is My Gender, co-edited with Stephanie Hsu, published by Rutgers University Press in 2025, and a monograph, narrow distances, published by Candor Arts in 2018.   Tse’s work is in public collections including the Harvard Art Museums, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, 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.   

Tse's writing has been published in Best! Letters from Asian Americans edited by Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam, Photo No Nos,  edited by Jason Fulford (Aperture, 2021), and Object Lessons, edited by Leslie Martin (Aperture, 2022).  Her photographs have been featured in Aperture Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, i-d, dazed,  Nueva Luz, Papersafe Magazine, NEWSPAPER, The New York Times, The New Yorker,  Monocole, Capricious Magazine, O Magazine, Salon, Huffington Post, Slate, Hyphen Magazine, Time Out New York, Time Out Hong Kong, and Ming Pao Weekly. 

She has taught at Cooper Union, Yale School of Art, City College of New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Photography in BFA Photography Program at Parsons. 

Degrees Held

BA, Bard College

MFA, Yale University School of Art