Gideon Tsang (b. 1974, Saskatoon, Canada) is a fine art photographer based in Austin, Texas. For 25 years he led spiritual communities, and his art grew out of that practice. He makes paintings with a camera — large-scale, contemplative photographs created entirely through in-camera techniques.
His current project, "Because We Fall," takes its title from a Japanese death poem: "Flowers are flowers because they fall." Using intentional blur and motion, Tsang photographs not the flower but the falling — time made visible. He sees the camera as a paintbrush and his practice as a form of contemplation, walking for hours and collaborating with the wilderness to make images that sit in the space between photography and painting.
Tsang's work has been exhibited internationally in Italy and Canada, and in galleries throughout Texas. He is currently in the FotoFilmic Annual Mentoring Program, with exhibitions forthcoming in Paris and Bowen Island, Canada in 2026. As founder of Austin art spaces Space 12 and Vesper, he has been part of the city's creative community for over two decades. His photographs are held in private collections nationally and appear in hospitality environments and corporate collections.
EDUCATION
1995 BA History and Political Theory, York University, Toronto, ON
1998 MA Theology, Trinity University, Chicago, IL
LEAD ARTIST & FOUNDER
2007 Space 12, Austin, TX
2019 Vesper, Austin, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 EAST, Space12, Austin, TX
2009 Loya Jirga, Space12, Austin, TX
2015 Tarriance, Studium Gallery, Austin TX
2018 Stations of the Dirt, Vox Gallery, Austin, TX
2020 We Know Nothing of This Going Away, Vox Gallery, Austin, TX
2022 Finding Vision, Webb Gallery, Trieste, Italy
Scenic Route, Rapha ClubHouse, Austin, TX (with Will Bryant)
2023 Kensuke Koike, Fotofilmic Gallery, Bowen Island, Canada
PUBLISHED
2014 - 2024 Photography & Writing, The Radavist
2021 Writing, 40 days of Being an Enneagram 7 Book
Photography, Texas Rivers, Wild Sam Magazine
Photography & Writing, Garrett Leight Spectacle Magazine
ARTIST TALKS
2003 Art & Spirituality in the New Millenium, Urbana, IL
2005 Art & Spirituality in the New Millenium, Toronto, Canada
2009 Seeing and Materiality, Houston, TX
Art and Neighboring, Calgary, Canada
2011 A New Way of Seeing, Houston, TX
2012 Third Places, Seattle, WA
2014 Encountering, Atlanta, GA
2015 Reflect What Is, Austin, TX
Sustainable Artistry, Seattle, WA
Find yourself Finding You, Atlanta, GA
The Art of Listening, Seattle WA
Art is Mystery, Toronto, Canada
Seeing yourself See, Austin, TX
2017 Find You in Art, Seattle, WA
The Art of Vulnerability, Washington, DC
2019 Make from Interiority, Seattle WA
AWARDS
2008 Best Collaborative Art Space, Austin Chronicle