Tracy von Ahsen (b. 1981, Long Island, NY) 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.

Von Ahsen’s work is shaped by personal transformation: her navigation through addiction, recovery, 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 the undercurrent of her practice.

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 mythmaking.

She has exhibited work in NYC at Amos Eno Gallery, Van Der Plas Gallery  the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Prince Street Project Space. She continues to create from her studio in the East Village.