Tracy Von Ahsen Artist Biography

Tracy von Ahsen is a New York City–based artist whose work collages presence, memory, and self-reinvention. After earning a photography degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology and living at the iconic Chelsea Hotel, she transitioned from photography to analog collage, cutting, layering, and reimagining symbols of identity, femininity, and spirituality.

Her practice is shaped by personal transformation, including navigating queer identity and spiritual awakening. Her studies with monks in India, ceremonies in Peru’s Sacred Valley, and years immersed in New York’s downtown art scene form a powerful undercurrent to her visual language.

Fusing pop culture, vintage aesthetics, and mystical storytelling, her pieces channel the surreal textures of city life while inviting a quieter dialogue about the nature of reality and personal myth making. She has exhibited at Amos Eno Gallery, Van Der Plas Gallery, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Prince Street Project Space, and continues to create from her studio in the East Village.