Gideon Tsang (b. 1974, Saskatoon, Canada) is a fine art photographer whose 25-year practice has created paintings with his camera visualizing the ineffable. His large-scale, painterly photographs capture the intersection of place and impermanence, transforming everyday moments into contemplative visual experiences.
Working with innovative in-camera techniques that create painterly effects, Tsang achieves his distinctive aesthetic entirely during capture, without digital manipulation. His approach blurs the boundaries between photography and painting through creative optical interventions that render images with a dreamlike, contemplative quality.
His current series, "Briefly Gorgeous," explores transient beauty through the lens of the Japanese death poem "flowers are flowers because they fall," examining how fleeting moments contain profound meaning.
Tsang's work has been exhibited internationally in Italy and Canada, as well as galleries throughout Texas. As founder of Austin art spaces Space 12 and Vesper, he has been instrumental in the city's contemporary art scene. His photographs are held in private collections nationally and serve both fine art and commercial applications, appearing in hospitality environments and corporate collections where his contemplative aesthetic enhances architectural spaces.
Based in Austin, Tsang continues to explore the relationship between photography and meditation, creating work that invites viewers to pause and reflect on the beauty inherent in impermanence.
CLIENT LIST
Whole Foods. Rivian. Garrett Leight. Rapha. Crocs. Commodore Perry Estate. T-Mobile. Stag Provisions. Esby Apparel. Lone Star Beer. Sam Adams Beer. Swift Industries. Ombraz Sunglasses. Endo Customs. 1821 Man Made. Swift Industries. The Radavist. Wild Sam. Laity Lodge. State Bicycles. Wikipedia.
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