Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 is a third-generation Chinese-Malaysian photographer and researcher currently working on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia).
2023 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
2023 Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖, Artist Profile
2023 The Top 10 Contemporary Art Shows to See in February 2023, Art Review
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 Los Paisanos del Puerto, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA2023 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
2024 Surfacing, Trocadero Projects, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Mixed Business 2, Pari, Sydney, NSW
Talks and Panels
2024 Artist panel with Edwin Porras and Yun Fuentes, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Seeing/Hearing: Capturing the Asian presence in the Americas with Anne Ishii and Aisha Zia Khan, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Panel discussion with Estelle Yoon, Rômy Pacquing McCoy, and Luce Nguyễn-Hunt, Trocadero Projects, Melbourne, VIC
2023 The Lens panel discussion with William Yang and Yvette Hamilton, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, NSW
2023 Artist talk, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW
2023 On Asian-diasporic futurisms, with Bhenji Ra, Shawna Tang, Chrystal Rebello, and Yvonne Low, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, NSW
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 – 2024, Artist talks at Swarthmore College, University of Connecticut, University of San Diego California, Universidad de Costa Rica
2023 Seeing/Hearing: Capturing the Asian presence in the Americas with Anne Ishii and Aisha Zia Khan, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Panel discussion with Estelle Yoon, Rômy Pacquing McCoy, and Luce Nguyễn-Hunt, Trocadero Projects, Melbourne, VIC
2023 The Lens panel discussion with William Yang and Yvette Hamilton, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, NSW
2023 Artist talk, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW
2023 On Asian-diasporic futurisms, with Bhenji Ra, Shawna Tang, Chrystal Rebello, and Yvonne Low, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, NSW
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 – 2024, Artist talks at Swarthmore College, University of Connecticut, University of San Diego California, Universidad de Costa Rica
Publications
2024 Los Paisanos del Puerto: Portraits of the Chinese diaspora community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Love Me Long Time, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, NSW
2023 Love Me Long Time, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, NSW
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
Selected Press
2023 Dorcas Tang's intimate audiovisual project centres Asian women's agency and desire, It’s Nice That2023 Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖, Artist Profile
2023 The Top 10 Contemporary Art Shows to See in February 2023, Art Review