Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 is a third-generation Chinese-Malaysian photographer and researcher currently working on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia).
2023 (upcoming) Love Me Long Time, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2020 Los Paisanos del Puerto, Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT
2019 Los Paisanos del Puerto, McCabe Library, Swarthmore, PA
2022 CreateNSW Small Projects Grant for Love Me Long Time
2022 The Pride Foundation Australia Small Grant for Love Me Long Time
2021 The Awesome Foundation Grant for Staging Portraits
2021 Supper Sessions #4 Grant for Staging Portraits
2021 Digital micro-residency, Outloud Arts, Bankstown, NSW
2019 Lauren Shrensel Zadikow Memorial Award, Society of Photographic Education
2019 Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium Grant
2019 Lang Center for Social and Civic Engagement Class of 1961 Arts Fund Grant, Swarthmore College
2018 Genevieve Ching-Wen Lee Asian American Studies Grant, Swarthmore College
For commissions and other inquiries
Education
2019 B.A in Studio Art, and minors in Spanish and Educational Studies, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 (upcoming) Los Paisanos del Puerto, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA2023 (upcoming) Love Me Long Time, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2020 Los Paisanos del Puerto, Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT
2019 Los Paisanos del Puerto, McCabe Library, Swarthmore, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Mixed Business 2, Pari, NSW, Sydney, NSW
2019 Captured Light, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2019 My grandmother’s whispers, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2019 Captured Light, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD
2019 My grandmother’s whispers, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Talks and Panels
2022 Artist talk, Swarthmore College, PA
2022 Artist talk, University of California, San Diego, CA
2021 Girls! Girls! Girls! panel with Michelle Aung Thin and Wing Kuang, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, SA
2021 Oh Snap! fea. Dorcas Tang, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, PA
2021 The Seen and Unseen panel, Tri-College Asian Student Conference, Swarthmore, PA
2021 Artist talk, Experience Liberal Arts College program, Shanghai, China
2019 Artist talk, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
2019 Asian and African Latin American Pasts and Presents panel, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium Student Conference
2022 Artist talk, University of California, San Diego, CA
2021 Girls! Girls! Girls! panel with Michelle Aung Thin and Wing Kuang, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, SA
2021 Oh Snap! fea. Dorcas Tang, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, PA
2021 The Seen and Unseen panel, Tri-College Asian Student Conference, Swarthmore, PA
2021 Artist talk, Experience Liberal Arts College program, Shanghai, China
2019 Artist talk, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
2019 Asian and African Latin American Pasts and Presents panel, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium Student Conference
Publications
2022 Staging Portraits: Queer community photo sessions, Issue 2: DIY, Paradise Journal
2022 Los Paisanos del Puerto: Vernacular photography and the Chinese diaspora, Bulletin Journal, Monument Lab
2021 Love Me Long Time, Issue 43: Divine, Runway Journal, Sydney, NSW
2022 Los Paisanos del Puerto: Vernacular photography and the Chinese diaspora, Bulletin Journal, Monument Lab
2021 Love Me Long Time, Issue 43: Divine, Runway Journal, Sydney, NSW
Grants and residencies
2023 Artist Residency at The Lock Up, Newcastle, NSW2022 CreateNSW Small Projects Grant for Love Me Long Time
2022 The Pride Foundation Australia Small Grant for Love Me Long Time
2021 The Awesome Foundation Grant for Staging Portraits
2021 Supper Sessions #4 Grant for Staging Portraits
2021 Digital micro-residency, Outloud Arts, Bankstown, NSW
2019 Lauren Shrensel Zadikow Memorial Award, Society of Photographic Education
2019 Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium Grant
2019 Lang Center for Social and Civic Engagement Class of 1961 Arts Fund Grant, Swarthmore College
2018 Genevieve Ching-Wen Lee Asian American Studies Grant, Swarthmore College