Ka-Man Tse was born on 1981 and is a Hong Kong-born photographer, video artist, and educator based in New York.
12 Facts About Ka-Man Tse
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Ka-Man Tse's relationship with these three cities - New York City, Schenectady, and Hong Kong - is an ongoing investigation in her work.
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Ka-Man Tse strives to locate points of intersection between LGBT and Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
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Ka Man-Ka-Man Tse's solo show, Narrow Distances, featured a series of photographs taken in Hong-Kong, and aimed to rework the world out of a desire to see it re-imagined with the queer narrative in mind.
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Ka-Man Tse used placement, foregrounding and the connection with her subjects, to recast the social landscape of Hong-Kong.
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Ka-Man Tse's photographs have been featured in the group show, In Search of Miss Ruthless, which examined the history of beauty pageants in Asia.
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Ka-Man Tse's gaze looks off past the photographer and into the night sky.
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Ka-Man Tse's heavily made up face starkly contrasts with the baldness of his head and the undone nonchalance in his posture.
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Ka-Man Tse actively includes an Asian drag queen in a group show about beauty pageants, starting a conversations about similarities between the two worlds and contributing to her larger goal of increasing visibility of the LGBT community.
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Ka-Man Tse has exhibited solo shows in the United States and Hong Kong.
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Ka-Man Tse has taught photography at Cooper Union, The City College of New York, and at the Yale University School of Art.
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Ka-Man Tse is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design.