Tracy Fish (she/her) is a documentary and fine art photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y and currently based in the Kansas City-metro. 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).
From 2015 to 2024, she taught in higher education, which included serving as an Area Head for Photography/Time-Based Media/Videography, developing and instructing coursework in still (photography) and moving images at the undergraduate and graduate levels, chairing and serving on BFA/MFA committees, and a member on multiple departmental committees including course and curriculum. After working several years as an Assistant Professor, she decided to pivot her focus to secondary education, eager to impart an excitement for the arts to the next generation of students. In August 2024, she began working as a Visual Arts Instructor in private secondary education and continues to be a practicing photographer and artist. She continues to exhibit her work both nationally and internationally, and published Chasing the Paper Canoe (Athenaeum Press, 2013).
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.