Tracy Dong (b. 1995, Vancouver, Canada) is a Berlin-based lens-based artist whose work is grounded in memory, resistance, and the poetics of diaspora. Drawing from her Southeast Asian heritage and diasporic lived experience, her practice examines how identity, belonging, and cultural memory are shaped and reshaped across borders and generations. With a principal focus on intimate depictions of marginalized subcultures, she proposes subversion and resistance to oppressive systems through deliberate documentation.

Education

Intensive Seminar under the mentorship of Mirjana Vrbaški, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, DE, 2026-2027

Certificate in Visual Storytelling Practices, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2025

Certificate in Screenwriting and Producing for Film and Television, New York University, New York, NY, 2024-2026

Exhibitions

“Projections Night”, curated by Worlds Through Minds, FotoBali Festival, Bali, Indonesia, June 2026

“Anthology 1”, Ephemere Tokyo at Gallery Conceal Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, February 2026

“Our Journeys”, Think!Chinatown with Vietnamese Boat People, New York, NY, November 2025

“Imaginary Ceilings”, curated by Worlds Through Minds, Fugue Gallery, New York, NY, June 2025

“Incidental Contact”, Chinatown Basketball Club, New York, NY, May 2025

Printed Matter Art Book Fair with Far-Near Magazine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, August 2023

“2 Years, 2 Weeks, 2 Hours”, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY, February 2022

“Analog Today: Film Photography in the Modern World”, Downtown Arts Collective and Public Darkroom, Orlando, FL, February 2022

Publications

“Tell Me About Saigon”, 7x8.5” softcover monograph, 48 pages, First Edition, Kris Graves Projects, April 2024; available at collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Stanford Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Arcadia University, Bard College, Cleveland Museum of Art, Coastal Carolina University, Harvard University

“Anatomy of the Highly Ambitious Woman”, Polyester Zine, February 2024

“Las Calles”, Street Photography Magazine, June 2022

“Unhyphenated”, Polyester Zine, May 2022

Commissions

Food Is Vice Issue 8, Serviette Magazine, June 2026

Mai Mai Magazine, First Edition, May 2025

Features

“Tender Portraits of Vietnamese Youth in Berlin”, DAZED Magazine, June 2026

“Tell Me About Saigon” in “8 Photo Books for your Radar this Summer”, DAZED Magazine, June 2024

“An Intimate Portrait of Vietnam Half a Century After the War”, Huck Magazine, May 2024

“NYC Photo Community” Photographer of the Week, March 2022