Tray Tsui
EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)
Tray Tsui (they/them)is a Brooklyn-based non-binary artist, filmmaker, and educator whose work investigates the links and ruptures between mass culture, collective memory, and personal narrative through visual storytelling. They work in and across photography, installation, film/video, performance, and social practice.
Tray holds a B.A. in Film Studies and English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Their work has screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Frameline, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero, Shapeshifters Cinema, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. They were a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, NYFF Artist Academy Fellow, Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, Flux Factory Resident, and a Princess Grace Film Awardee. They work and teach at Pratt Institute. They love dogs.