Tracie Dawn Williams is an educator and photographer making work at the intersection of research, documentary and fine art. She holds an MFA from the International Centre of Photography-Bard and was a Film Fellow with the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio in Brooklyn. Williams experiments with multiple mediums and genres in her storytelling, always viewing those she documents as collaborators. Hailing from the deserts of New Mexico, she now calls NYC home.

Williams' projects have traversed the globe and her work is held in private and public collections. Locally she has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of the City of New York. Her photographs have been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, and New York Magazine. Additionally she has been awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation Grant, Rory Peck Trust Award, and the Puffin Foundation Grant.

TEACHING HISTORY
Professor of Photography (Photo 1 + Photo 2) Middlesex College, Edison, New Jersey 2021 - Current
Educator Justice Impacted Students, Middlesex College, Middlesex + Camden Juvenile Detention Centers, NJ 2023
Professor of Art History (Photography) City of the University of New York, New York, NY 2022
Educator Photoville, Brooklyn, NY 2018, 2024
Educator Sandy Storylines, The Rockaways, NY 2013

EDUCATION
Fellow UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Advanced Photographic Studies, ICP- Bard College,  New York, NY
BA Interdivisional Major: English, Psychology, Sociology & Photo, Regis University, Denver, CO
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, The collective malaise of an uncertain future, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)
2023 Return, Attack Warning, Studio Theatre Gallery, Edison NJ
2022 re·boot(,) \ ˈrē-ˌbüt, Studio Theatre Gallery, Edison, NJ
2022 A Gathering of the Tribes Marathon Reading @ the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Love You Madly Expanded Cinema featuring an original score performed by Honeytrap, New York, NY
2022 A Gathering of the Tribes / Steve Cannon Installation @ the Whitney Biennial: Quite As it’s Kept 2022, Love You Madly, New York, NY
2021 Photoville Community Heroes - Fort Greene, Brother Mack, Fort Greene, NY
2019 The Collective Art Tank, Everyone Is Asleep But Me, Above the Horizon,Asbury Park, NJ
2019 5 Years of Live Soundtrack, Above The Horizon, Kinoskop Fest, Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Have K(NO!)w Fear: A Bluessical, Have No Fear film screening, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
2019 Art Banchel, Attack Warning, Pigmento Studio, Madrid, Spain
2019 Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show, Kevin and Aura, Arena1 Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Feed The Flame, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2018 New York Photo Salon, Feed The Flame, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2018 Women's Photo Alliance OPEN SALON, Feed The Flame, Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center, New York, NY
2018 Month of Photography Los Angeles, STANDARDVISION SV SHOWCASE X, Environment, Los Angeles, CA
2017 New York Art Book Fair + Printed Matter, Everyone Is Asleep But Me, MOMA PS1, New York, NY     
2017 Movies With A View, Have No Fear, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Photo Brigades: The Photographer’s Playlist, Feed The Flame, CBS Radio Studios, New York, NY
2016 UnionDocs Preview in the Park: Just to Get By, Love You Madly, Farm on Kent, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Der Greif: A Process 2.0 curated by Lars Willumet, Half Truths, Krakow, Poland
2016 Der Greif: Guest Room curated by Lars Willumet, Half Truths, DerGreif-online.de
2016 MAMA LOVEY'S FILM SALON, Attack Warning, The Cellar @ Finborough Arms, London, UK  
2015 Der Greif: Guest Room curated by Robert Morat, DerGreif-online.de
2015 OPEN SHOW NYC, Attack Warning, Videology, Brooklyn, NY
2015 ICP at Photoville, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Advanced Master Remix, Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2015 This One's For You, Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, ICP, New York, NY
2014 Relationships, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2014 Call+Response+Response, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Feast Day, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2014 New York Art Book Fair + Printed Matter, PS1, New York, NY
2014 Slidefest, Attack Warning, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2014 New York Art Book Fair + Printed Matter, PS1, New York, NY
2013 HeadOn Photography Festival, Beauty,Featured Exhibitor, Sydney, Australia
2013 Open International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2013 New York Art Book Fair + Printed Matter, PS1, New York, NY
2013 Rising Waters, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
2013 Rising Waters at Governors Island, Museum of the City of New York + ICP
2013 A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, Larkin Zine, International Center of Photography Museum, New York, NY
2012 NOTHING TO SEE HERE, A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Harvey Milk Photo Center Summer Exhibition, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 FotoFreo Festival, KiLl Me TWiCe, Fremantle, Australia
2010 Ability presented by Lao Disabled People’s Association, Vientiane, Laos
2008 COPE Visitor Center Vientiane, Laos

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 EXTRA TASTY, International Center of Photography, LIC Studios, New York, NY
2011 Community: The Faces of St. Anthony’s, San Francisco, CA
2010 Trust Me, I’m a Survivor, Vientiane, Laos
2010 FFE - Free From Explosives, French Cultural Centre, Vientiane, Laos
2009 Off Festival (8th annual Angkor Photo Festival), Motion, Luang Prabang, Laos
 

SHORT FILMS
2019 Above the Horizon  
2016 Love You Madly (Currently in production)
2016 Have No Fear
2014 Attack Warning

BOOKS + ZINES
2024 American Photography 40 - presented by AI-AP (Upcoming)
2024 Public Art in Public Space: Twenty Years Advancing Work in New York’s Madison Square Park
2020 Dear Dave Magazine #27
2020 Inside Black
2017 Everyone Is Asleep But Me
2015 Beauty
2015 Love and Rage  
2014 Tap the Handle
2014 ATM’s and Telephone Booths
 

HONORS, AWARDS + GRANTS
2024 Puffin Foundation Grant
2024 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (Adjunct) - Middlesex College
2021 IWMF U.S. Emergency Fund Grant
2017 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris: Silver Winner - Press/Political
2017 Rory Peck Trust Assistance Grant
2014 Director's Fellowship, International Center of Photography
2013 Director's Fellowship, International Center of Photography
2013 Featured Exhibitor, HeadOn Photo Festival (Australia)
2012 Eddie Adams Workshop XXV (New York)


PUBLICATIONS
The Intercept, The Nation, New York Times, AINT—BAD, Travel + Leisure SE Asia. Huffington Post, Mines Advisory Group (MAG, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Cooperative Orthotic & Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE), Lao Disabled People’s Association (LDPA), Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), Handicap International (Laos & Belgium), AUSAid (Australian Government for International Development), Friends International, Oxfam Australia, CARE Australia, Mine Action Canada (MAC), St. Anthony’s Foundation, Waging Non-violence, Truth-Out, The Gothamist, The Village Voice, Business Insider, ABC News Australia, Photojournalism Now, TIMELightbox