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.
Currently Exhibiting in: Brooklyn, NY
Web: tracyvonahsen.com
Instagram: @tracyvonahsen
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Von Ahsen’s collages, made entirely by hand, construct spaces where identity is fluid and mythic. Familiar imagery becomes portals that speak to transformation, memory, and personal reinvention.
Featured Artwork at Bushwick Gallery
Title: False Landscape
Year of Creation: 2025
Medium: Analog collage
Dimensions: 11.75 x 16.25 in
Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Price: $850
Description
False Landscape moves like a dream you can’t quite shake, quiet and cinematic with an undertone of danger. The figure stands between the rearview and the open road, caught between what is known and the mystery of what comes next. The reflection is not memory but a test — how long will you keep looking back at what’s already gone. The landscape is dry and endless, but the true terrain is the mind, looping on its own ghosts. This is the moment before surrender, when the body already knows it’s time to move forward.
Constructed from layered magazine imagery, the collage balances stillness and tension. The work holds both unease and clarity, creating a psychic space where transformation is no longer theoretical but embodied. It invites the viewer into that edge moment between letting go and stepping through.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Fractured Beauty: The Elegance of Imperfection
Curated by: Veronica de Oliveira Castro
Theme: This exhibition challenges the concept of perfection by embracing dissonance, flaws, and irregularity, capturing the allure of the broken, the incomplete, and the chaotic.
Exhibition Dates: October 23 – October 30, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 23, 2025 / 6 PM – 8 PM
Private Showings & Events: Invite-only throughout the week