TRACYFISH

ABOUT

Tracy Fish (she/her) is a documentary and fine art photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her creative work expands genres, using an interest in culture and history as a catalyst to explore memory, identity, place, and the environment through various processes including photography, audio, and experimental videography.

Fish received her MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University (2015) and a BA in Art Studio from Coastal Carolina University (2012).

She is currently an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Photography and Time-Based Media/Videography at University of Nevada, Reno and has taught various-levels of coursework in still and moving image at the undergraduate and graduate levels while incorporating interdisciplinary practices. Fish has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, and published Chasing the Paper Canoe in 2013, (Athenaeum Press).

As an educator, Fish is dedicated to creating a space for community and conversation that exists both inside and out of the classroom. She encourages her students to be receptive and observational to the complexities of society, question what they are exposed to and use these results as a tool for discovering what is important to them. Fish believes that this simultaneous question and search for answers will help contribute to her students finding themselves as both makers and artists, while being open to other ideologies around them.