Tung Lin Tsai is a Taiwanese photographer and print media practitioner whose work explores the political realities embedded in everyday life. Using mundane materials such as paper airplanes, office paper, plastic bags, and desk calendars, he constructs a visual language of repetition and quiet resistance. These objects, often dismissed as disposable, are recontextualized to reflect the weight of living in a non-sovereign state.
Trained as a photo lab technician and photographer, Tsai approaches image-making as a form of daily labor rather than artistic transcendence. His work resists the grand narratives of art and instead focuses on the unremarkable, the repetitive, and the ambiguous—qualities that speak to a larger condition of geopolitical precarity.
Tsai holds an MFA in Photography and Print Media from Boston University and a BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts.
