Tracy L Chandler is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines memory, perception, and subjectivity. She grew up in the California desert and returns to it repeatedly as both literal subject and psychological terrain. Her photographs often take form as photographic installations, sculptural interventions, short films, and photobooks.
Chandler earned her MFA from Hartford Art School in 2021, where she was awarded multiple merit scholarships and the Mary Frey Book Grant. Her work has been recognized through awards including the Innovate Grant Photo Artist Award, the Hopper Prize, the Arles Book Award, the PH Museum, Lucie Foundation, Urbanutica Institute, and Charcoal Book Club, and through residencies at the Montello Foundation and 834 Mibu in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is held in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and the Getty Research Institute.
Her first monograph, A Poor Sort of Memory, was published by Deadbeat Club in 2024 and has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at The Reef in Los Angeles and a screening at Arles Rencontres. She has participated in group exhibitions at Baxter St Gallery, Candela Gallery, Filter Space, The Humid, The Oregon Contemporary, and the Museum of Warsaw, among others. Her work has been featured in publications and podcasts including Booooooom, It's Nice That, Photobook Cult, California Sun, The Humble Arts Foundation, and Lenscratch.
Chandler is a Contributing Editor at Lenscratch Magazine, where she conducts interviews with photobook artists as part of an ongoing column dedicated to the photobook form.