Tommy Kha

Tommy Kha is a photographer, born in Memphis, TN and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University where he currently teaches.

He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, a previous recipient of the Hayes Prize, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery. Kha’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, the New Yorker, among other publications. 

Currently, Kha studies calligraphy and kung fu under Sifu Ken Lo. He joined Higher Pictures in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023. 

His first museum solo, Other Things Uttered, opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2025, followed by a publication. He has been collected by Museum of Modern Art, SFMoMA, High Museum, Ogden Museum, and VMFA.