About

Abbigail Hong is from Ellicott City Maryland and is now currently a Senior at NYU Tisch studying photography. Her practice specializes in documentary and photojournalism, with an emphasis on themes surrounding identity, culture, femininity, and religion. She mainly works with digital and occasionally analog as her main medium. Some of her series have included exploring the Asian American identity, documenting familial ties through womanhood, and photographing children in a special needs program. Her series, “One Way Ticket to the American Dream” is a part of the “Migration and Meaning(s) in Art” exhibition at the MICA (https://bmoreart.com/2020/03/migrations-and-meanings-in-art-centers-hope-humor-and-ritual.html). And her piece, “All of God’s Children” was displayed at the Microscope Gallery in part of the “New York University Photography & Imaging Senior Show 2022”. She is a recipient of the Thomas Drysdale Grant and is now based in Brooklyn.